Nurse Team Manager - Children's A&E and CAU

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Children’s Emergency Department (CED) & Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU) are co-located units delivering all aspects of emergency care as well as a Children's Urgent Care Centre (UTC).

In October 2022 we expanded and refurbished and as such are looking to expand our nursing team including our Nurse Team Manager posts to support clinically and managerially our growing nursing  team. Our friendly and talented team work flexibly between both the CED and CAU, and provide high quality emergency care to children and young people presenting with a broad spectrum of conditions. CED has a separate Children's UTC area which is predominantly staffed with Children’s Emergency Nurse Practitioners and provides care to children and young people with minor injuries and illness. Care is provided to acutely sick and injured children through the use of a major’s area which consists of 6 bed spaces. The department also has a dedicated ambulance entrance and a 2 bedded resuscitation area.

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 post holder will provide effective leadership, clinical expertise, knowledge, advice, and positive role modelling.

To innovate, develop, facilitate and supervise excellent standards of safe, individualised, holistic care that is evidence based, in consultation and partnership with the Child/Young Person (CYP), their family/carers and the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT).

To have continuing responsibility for the effective and efficient operational management of the above services within allocated resources.

Be accountable for the quality, delivery and monitoring of robust, infection control measures, nursing standards and nursing quality and patient experience indicators within all areas of day services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.