Team Leader

The successful candidate will assume a senior leadership role within the Emergency Department, combining clinical expertise with team management responsibilities. As a key figure within the department, the post holder will serve as a role model, providing visible, accessible leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based patient care.
This role involves senior-level responsibilities, including overseeing managerial duties within the assigned team while also contributing to strategic initiatives at the departmental and organizational level.
Clinically, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the department consistently meets quality and safety standards. They will also play a pivotal role in the collection and analysis of ED data to assess departmental risks and inform decision-making.
The post holder will effectively manage and resolve complaints and incidents, leading investigations where necessary, reporting findings, and implementing changes to improve practice. They will also manage and support their team of nursing staff through HR processes and professional development initiatives.
Please note: The selection process may include an assessment centre or psychometric testing.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received., + Serve as a clinical expert, maintaining visibility and accessibility, and leading by example. Act as a positive role model for all staff, upholding professional standards of conduct and behaviour in line with Trust and NMC requirements.
+ Oversee the day-to-day management of the department, ensuring optimal skill mix and staffing levels are achieved through effective utilization of the team, providing high-quality care around the clock.
+ Support the development and monitoring of departmental standards, actively reviewing, managing, and reporting on audits and objectives. This includes monitoring staff performance and appraisals, managing attendance (absence and sickness), ensuring compliance with best practice tariffs, maintaining environmental cleanliness, overseeing documentation, and promoting staff education, skills development, and competence.
+ Provide strong leadership, motivating and empowering both registered and unregistered nursing staff, while implementing and promoting HR and performance policies to foster a positive performance culture. Contribute to the dissemination of protocols and guidelines.
+ Foster a positive approach to patient care, effectively managing conflicts and complaints, and actively seeking feedback to continuously improve service delivery., · To coordinate the nursing care of all patients attending the Emergency Department
· To provide clinical leadership to the nursing team within the Emergency Department to ensure high standards of patient care are maintained
· To take charge of the Emergency Department and manage all resources effectively
· To ensure quality standards and Emergency Department targets are adhered to and met
· To manage and lead a specific team of nursing staff, including Human resources, Staff appraisals / personnel issues and disciplinary procedures.
· To support the Emergency Department OSM, Clinical Lead Nurse / Modern Matron, and clinical leads
· To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
The Emergency Department supports staff wellbeing at the forefront of their plans, they are 2023 winners of the RLDatix award for supported workforce using their innovative team based rostering approach to allow flexibility and improved work life balance.
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.