Job summary
We are recruiting for a Newly Registered Nurse - Ward 8A who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are in the top three NHS hospital groups in the East of England for size, so, you'll work with a great mix of patients.
We have close working links with the University of Hertfordshire and Cambridge University, as well as being a founding member of the Eastern Academic Health Sciences Network. We have specialties that are not found normally at a general hospital, including cardiology, renal and robotic urology - this means that your new role will be really interesting and there are great opportunities to learn new skills.
As a trust we continually invest in growing and developing our staff to support them in providing the best possible care to our patients. As a Newly Registered Nurse joining the trust you will automatically be enrolled in our 12 month preceptorship programme. This is an established preceptorship scheme designed around your continuous development with nursing skills, leadership, values and the importance of care and compassion. This will include the support of an allocated preceptor through the preceptorship period.
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
You will be required to complete a full application with personal statement, sit an formal interview and assessment process.
As a newly registered nurse you will participate as a member of the nursing team to provide a high standard of research based care, support the team of staff working in the area to deliver a quality service which is linked to high standard of patient care and support the Sisters / Charge Nurses and Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in the training and development of junior staff.
In return we will offer you:
1. An on-site dedicated and professional non-medical education team to support you as you progress through your nursing career including a continuing professional development lead, responsible for staff development.
2. A Band 5 to Band 6 fast-track scheme which gives our Band 5 nurses all the skills and competencies they need to enable them to be ready for Band 6 opportunities that arise, with full training to support this development.
3. An annual appraisal scheme.
4. Commitment and participation in a clinical excellence accreditation framework.
5. A Band 5 rotation scheme which can be tailored to meet your needs if you wish
We welcome applicants from students who have been on placement with ENHT and those that have not.
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:
6. The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
7. New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
8. Hertford County, Hertford
9. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
10. Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
11. Commitment to lifelong learning
12. Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
13. Ability to product updated personal professional portfolio
Desirable
14. Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
15. Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
Skills
Essential
16. Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
17. Ability to work within a team
18. Good self-awareness
19. Good organisational skills
20. Ability to priorities and organise workload
21. Flexibility around working hours
Desirable
22. Computer literacy
23. Venepuncture
24. Cannulation