Nurse Team Manager - Children's ward | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

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

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and inspirationalChildren’s Nurse Team Managerto provide clinical and operational leadership within our expanding children’s services. This is an exciting time for the service, withtwo commissioned designated HDU spacesand an£11 million NHS England investmentto build a new Children’s Ward. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in leading service transformation while ensuring children and young people receive safe, compassionate and high-quality care.

The post holder will provide visible leadership to the nursing and multidisciplinary team, with responsibility for the day-to-day management of the ward, workforce, patient safety, safeguarding, clinical governance, quality improvement and patient experience. They will foster a positive, inclusive culture where children, young people and their families remain at the centre of all care.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of children's services, lead a dedicated team and make a lasting impact on the care and experience of children, young people and their families.

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.

Working closely with the Matron and multidisciplinary colleagues, the post holder will lead the integration of the new HDU provision and support the planning, mobilisation and transition into the new ward. They will inspire and develop staff, champion innovation and evidence-based practice, and ensure high standards of care throughout a period of significant growth and change.

Provide visible clinical and operational leadership, ensuring safe, evidence-based, compassionate and family-centred care for children and young people in partnership with families and the multidisciplinary team.

Lead the day-to-day management of the children's ward, maintaining high standards of clinical practice, patient safety, safeguarding, infection prevention, governance and patient experience in line with the NMC Code, national standards and Trust policies.

Provide expert paediatric leadership, supporting staff development, clinical competency and the delivery of high-quality care across the ward and newly commissioned two-bed HDU service.

Lead workforce planning, ensuring safe staffing, effective deployment, education, appraisal, supervision and mandatory training.

Monitor quality, safety, incidents, complaints, audit and performance, embedding learning and continuous quality improvement.

Promote collaborative multidisciplinary working and ensure children, young people and families are fully involved in decisions about their care.

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 Tuesday 20 Oct 2026