This nurse team leader post sits within the renal service of East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, focused on home haemodialysis training. The role provides clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff, deputising for the Senior Sister or Charge Nurse, and assesses dialysis patients' health and wellbeing needs. The post holder may be based at the CKC Dialysis Centre or Lister Hospital, or split across both sites, and promotes shared care and independent home options. Applicants need a recognised renal course and mentorship qualification.
What the job involves
- Provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff
- Deputise for the Senior Sister or Charge Nurse in their absence, managing unit-level clinical service delivery
- Assess dialysis patients' health and wellbeing needs and implement care programmes
- Interpret information to identify short and long term patient needs and risks
- Provide care to patients with ESRF who require renal replacement therapy and are interested in home haemodialysis
- Promote home haemodialysis options and support home haemodialysis patients
- Encourage patients to take part in their care through shared care or independent home haemodialysis
- Promote expert nursing care and high standards of healthcare for all home haemodialysis patients
- Work with the renal team to deliver a streamlined, efficient and effective service
- Provide learning opportunities and assessment for staff, contributing to the renal department's learning culture
- Work at the CKC Dialysis Centre or Lister Hospital, or across both sites
What’s required
Qualifications
- Recognised renal post-registration course
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of leadership training and ongoing professional development
Registration & licences
- NMC Part 1 register as a first level nurse, educated to diploma level
Experience
- Significant experience caring for renal patients, with a special interest in home haemodialysis and shared care
- Sound decision making, with evidence of acting on own initiative
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Leadership and motivational skills to lead a team
- Flexible approach and negotiating skills to influence change positively
- Liaising with the multidisciplinary team to improve the running of the unit
- Active role in teaching
- Knowledge of risk management, health and safety and clinical governance
Other
- Self-motivated
- Ability to travel easily between sitesCommitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model Trust values and know current Trust initiatives, including LEND and pledges
Nice to have
- Relevant healthcare-related degree
- Health coaching
- Involvement in audit or research, with willingness to present findings
- Knowledge of quality assurance of dialysis treatment
- Community care experience
- Experience as mentor or preceptor to staff
- Understanding of expenditure and budget management
- Understanding of scheduling and capacity
What’s offered
- Right to request flexible working patterns, with requests considered formally and support as the starting point
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
