Job summary

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse Renal Intervention and Treatment Areawho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Registered Nurse post is a vital and valued role to support in providing high-quality, compassionate nursing care to patient/clients and their families/carers.

Based in a clinical setting they work closely with the department / ward manager and multi-disciplinary team members in monitoring and maintaining policies, standards of nursing care, staff and service development within the ward or unit setting.

You will be working in the Renal Intervention and Treatment Area (RITA) as part of a small but experienced team providing outpatient care to a broad base of patients

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

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care needs of patients from admission (or before) to discharge, with the involvement of patients and their relatives/carers.

To ensure a high standard of nursing care is performed at all times and assists in the review and regular update of these standards in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and trust polices.

Participate within a team of nurses and support workers in providing continuity of patient care, ensuring patients' physical, social and psychological needs are met.

Where required and dependent on the needs of the service, participate in internal shift rotations to cover services during the day, evening, at night, over weekends and on general public holidays.

To participate in the departmental on-call rotation, if required, to support an out-of-hours service.

To assist in procedures such as renal biopsy, tunnelled line insertion, PD catheter insertion'

Undertake iron clinics, non oncology chemo clinics

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients with vascular access issues be perficient in cannulation and venepunture

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.