Registered Nurse - Critical Care

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted toprovide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We have 20 critical care beds and can offer you broad experience in caring forcritically ill adults in an innovative, challenging and aspirational workplace.

We are committed to advancing nursing practice and our Clinical Nurse Educator provides in-house training and support for clinical and professional development.

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.

Main duties of the job

To manage the ventilated, haemofiltered, and cardiovascularly compromisedpatient initially under supervision, whilst developing professionally, utilisingcompetency based Knowledge & Skills Framework (KSF) leading to autonomy ofcare when proficient, in conjunction with further development of managementskills.

Support Nurse Team Leaders and Nurse Team Managers in the training anddevelopment of junior staff.

Demonstrate proficiency in the management of acutely unwell / deterioratingpatients nursed outside the critical care setting, ie Recovery and EmergencyDepartment.

Keep fully informed about changes in Critical Care, Outreach and update professional knowledge to meet the requirements for Revalidation.

Plan and deliver patient care to the highest standard utilising a holistic research-based model and including patient and relative involvement.

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 Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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 Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

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

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