East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Urology Nurse Specialist - Urology

The closing date is 31 August 2025

Job summary

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

The Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist is a highly skilled nursing professional who is responsible for providing specialised care and support to patients with benign urological conditions.

This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive care, patient education, and utilize advanced clinical expertise to assess, diagnose, and implement evidence-based interventions tailored to individual patient's needs.

You will work alongside the other urology nurses, developing new and appropriate skills to provide excellent care to an ever-increasing case load. Development will be a key focus, and your willingness to learn new skills is essential.

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

As a Urology Nurse Specialist, you will engage in a variety of critical tasks focused on patient care and clinical support. Their responsibilities include:

The post holder will be working with patients who have benign urology conditions. The successful candidate will be supported to develop competence and skill in undertaking trial without catheters, difficult catheterisations, flow rates, bladder instillations, and Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS).

Within your role, you will support in providing expert advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways whilst focusing on improving patient care and service development. You'll assess patients holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

You will provide specialist advice to patient families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team and carry out specialist nursing procedures in relation to benign urological patient.

You will also act in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct. Provide a specialist nursing service for patients with urological conditions who require support and treatment through continuum of care.

The successful candidate will have the ability to manage caseload of patients, delivering a high quality service which is linked to a high standard of patient care.

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.

Details

Date posted

15 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

361-7315942

Job locations

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • Registered nurse
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Teaching or mentoring qualification
  • Post registration qualification in Urology or willingness to complete
  • Relevant Experience in Urology

Desirable

  • Degree
  • Research module

Skills

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
  • Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management. Effective interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary working
  • Experience in Male & Female Catheterisation

Desirable

  • Counselling skills
  • Leadership skills
Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • Registered nurse
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Teaching or mentoring qualification
  • Post registration qualification in Urology or willingness to complete
  • Relevant Experience in Urology

Desirable

  • Degree
  • Research module

Skills

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
  • Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management. Effective interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary working
  • Experience in Male & Female Catheterisation

Desirable

  • Counselling skills
  • Leadership skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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)


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Joy Ugwu

joy.ugwu@nhs.net

01438284356

Details

Date posted

15 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

361-7315942

Job locations

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB


Supporting documents

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