Nurse Team Leader - St Albans Haemodialysis Unit | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | St Albans, AL3 5PN |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 10 Aug 2026 |
| Closing date: | 11 Sept 2026 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will work as an integral part of the renal multidisciplinary team. You will demonstrate expertise and leadership in the delivery of care to patients requiring Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) in the form of hemodialysis.
As a nursing leader you will provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff in the delivery of evidence-based practice. You will actively support the unit manager in the effective running of the department including in their absence.
You will be expected to participate in on call duties.
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.
Utilize effective communication methods with nursing and medical colleagues, patients and visitors in ways that are consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background.
Refer patients to other appropriate multi-disciplinary team members when needs and/or risks are beyond own scope of practice.
Reinforce developments, improvements, successes, and achievements at every opportunity supported by relevant and accurate information.
Constructively tackle queries and objections to developing knowledge, ideas and work practice and making alternative proposals.
Evaluate own effectiveness in influencing the policy agenda and use this to inform future practice.
To priorities workload themselves and others, assess performance and provide clear constructive feedback to team members.
To monitor progress of work recognizing changing priorities and implement corrective actions within own limits and informing the relevant people.
To plan, manage and organize the unit environment adjusting plans/rosters to cover emergencies in the absence of the unit manager.
Attend and contribute to meetings as appropriate and deputizing for the unit manager at meetings in their absence.
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.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Aug 2026
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