Job summary

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - St Albans Haemodialysis Unit who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

To be responsible for the care of patients undergoing dialysis, assessing individual patient care needs. To develop, implement and evaluate plans of care for a group of patients dialyzing at an in-centre or at our satellite units in accordance with agreed policies and professional guidelines.

In the absence of senior staff, taking responsibility for the delegation and supervision of appropriate work to other qualified staff, healthcare support workers and students. To work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and participate in the hemodialysis on-call rota.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of nursing care to meet the needs of patients with supervision and support from senior colleagues.

To identify clinical changes in patients and make safe and appropriate decisions in partnership with senior colleagues, seeking timely advice whenever necessary.

With decreasing levels of supervision, the nurse will plan, implement and evaluate care based on our model of nursing ensuring that the needs of each individual patient.

Be responsible for the accurate recording of clinical observations and data relating to patients care, ensuring that progress is maintained and reviewed.

Be able to present and discuss relevant issues with senior colleagues and the multidisciplinary team.

To communicate with patients and families with empathy and reassurance regarding assessment, care and treatment.

Recognise when situations are beyond own scope of competence and inform the shift leader promptly.

To utilise equipment and resources safely and efficiently and to take appropriate action to ensure that equipment is maintained in line with ward/unit policy.

To participate in the mentorship and teaching of junior, unqualified and student nurses ensuring that senior colleagues are made aware of any identified learning needs or difficulties.

About us

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.