Job summary
- Main area
- Orthopeadic/Surgery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7274066
- 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
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Nurse Team Leader - Swift Ward
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
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader - Swift Ward who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Swift Ward is a 26 bedded Orthopaedic unit as well as incorporating General Surgery, Elective Joint Replacements including Private Patients from other Specialities.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The position of Nurse Team Leader leads the team on a shift basis and be responsible for you own team of staff.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills whilst developing exceptional standards of care ensuring best practice of Infection Control within a clean environment.
The post holder will have the qualities to lead the team by promoting high standards of care and challenging any behaviours that go against our trust values.
You will also promote and ensure all admissions and discharges are assessed daily and systems updated to ensure appropriate length of stay and safe timely discharges with any required support in place.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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 Nurse on part 1 or 12 of the NMC register
- Mentorship and preceptorship qualification or equivalent (or evidence of working towards it)
- Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of specialty
- Leadership qualification or working towards
Desirable criteria
- Working towards a degree at higher level
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical experience working on a surgical ward
- Current working knowledge and skills in the management of surgical patients especially Orthopaedics
- Experience of Nursing in an acute setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience in change management
- Experience managing a ward/department
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective shift leadership ability
- Effective communicator
- Leadership to drive quality of care within the multidisciplinary team
- Organizational/management skills
- Ability to prioritise own workload, motivated, reliable with the flexibility to work autonomously
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Effective shift leadership ability
- Leadership to drive quality of care within the multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of research and audit and a willingness to participate in these within the department
- Computer literate
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
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
- Claudia Prince
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438288137
- Additional information
In Ward Managers absence please contact Jean Beresford/Matron 01438284917.
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