Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekends, Bank Holidays, Evenings, On call 24/7 Emergency Bleed cover)
- Job ref
- 361-7876510
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/05/2026
Employer heading
Nurse Team Leader- Endoscopy
NHS AfC: Band 6
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader Endoscopy who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Endoscopy unit is located at the Lister hospital, running four procedure rooms, and a further two procedure rooms at the New QE2 site.
We offer an Endoscopy service seven days a week, and an emergency on-call service 24/7, including weekends and Bank Holidays.
You will provide efficient, safe and effective service for all patients and carers attending the endoscopy unit.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
Act as a leader of the nursing team in providing a high standard of evidence based care.
Conduct Appraisals, Return to Work / Sickness interviews and Management referrals in a timely manner. Monitor and manage staff absence.
Support the endoscopy NTMs, deputise for them in their absence
Establish and maintain good effective communication. Links with the multidisciplinary team, specialist nurse, office staff and wards.
Actively be involved in Retention and Recruitment of staff to support the service.
Complete weekly allocations maintaining safe staffing levels, and create opportunities for staff to complete their competencies
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing qualification on the NMC register
- Nursing degree qualification/ Apprenticeship or equivalent.
- GCSE Grade A-C in Math’s & English or skills level 2 math’s & English or equivalent
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Ability to produce a personal professional portfolio
- Mentorship/preceptorship training
Desirable criteria
- IT skills
- Recognised management training/course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience
- Manage day to day running of the unit/ward
- Evidence of developing one’s own specialist, clinical role within endoscopy
- Fully compliant with all Endoscopy JETS competencies.
- Evidence of training and mentoring staff and educating patients.
- Responsibility for management and co-ordination of staff appraisals
- Budget management stock control awareness
Desirable criteria
- Management of staff sickness
Skills
Essential criteria
- Flexible
- Utilisation of teaching skills
- Experience of prioritising
- Evidence of excellent communication skills
- Understanding of research/Audit and experience of developing clinical practice
- Ability to direct and work within a team
- Sound organisational skills
- Self-awareness
- Assertiveness
- Time management
- Technically minded
- Delegation and overseeing designated services- PEG and Preassessment
- Strategic development
- Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- Negotiation skills
- Evidence to lead and manage change.
- Strong leadership and motivational skills
- Authorship of research publications.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A good knowledge of Gastroenterological conditions and procedures
- Ability to identify risks and knowledge of risk assessments and the importance of Health and safety in Endoscopy
- Awareness of Health care associated infections within the setting of Endoscopy
- Knowledge of JAG/JETS/GRS
- Ability to write/review protocols/procedures
- Experience in dealing with complaints and incident reporting.
- Able to facilitate change
- Working knowledge of managing Decontamination processes.
- Knowledge of standard setting and Audit.
- Knowledge of National Bowel cancer screening program.
Desirable criteria
- Interview or recruitment experience.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Davies
- Job title
- Nurse Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438285378
- Additional information
For informal visits contact as above.
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