Registered Nurse - Lister Haemodialysis Unit

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse to work in our Lister Haemodialysis, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The East and North Herts Trust (The Lister renal unit) has a proven track record of successfully developing and managing Renal Dialysis Units at Stevenage, St Albans, Chiltern, Harlow and Bedford. Spanning over two decades, our experience in dialysis, innovative research and treatment concepts has earned us national and international recognition.

You will be joining an experienced Renal Team who have extensive experience in developing Workforce to manage Renal Units. You will be trained in the delivery of high quality patient care in a dialysis setting.

You may or may not have experience in Renal Nursing but must demonstrate a commitment to developing expertise in the management of patients with chronic kidney disease who require Haemodialysis.

We offer a renal rotation programme across ward nursing, renal acute dialysis unit and haemodialysis units. Interested applicants will need to be able to work across our five dialysis sites based at Lister, Bedford, Harlow, Luton and St Albans

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

You will be trained in the delivery of high quality patient care in a dialysis setting.

You will work as a member of the multidisciplinary clinicalteam in renal.

Demonstrate a willingness to develop the knowledge and skills required to care for renal patients. This includes the delivery of care to all patients receiving renal replacement therapy in the haemodialysis units, on the nephrology ward and in home therapies.

You will participate as a member of the nursing team toprovide a high standard of research based care, support the team ofstaff working in the area to deliver a quality service and support theSisters / Charge Nurses and Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in thetraining and development of junior staff.

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 dialysing incentre 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 haemodialysis on-call rota.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire 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.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Dialysis Unit

Corey Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Dialysis Unit

Corey Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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