We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Stroke/Rehabilitation who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
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 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 throughout the preceptorship period.
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
As a 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 standards 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:
* 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.
* 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.
* An annual appraisal scheme.
* Commitment and participation in a clinical excellence accreditation framework.
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 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 listening and considering 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
* Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2, or part 12 of the NMC register
* Commitment to lifelong learning
* Evidence of further education, training, and ongoing learning
* Ability to produce an updated personal professional portfolio
Desirable
* Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
* Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
Skills
Essential
* Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
* Ability to work within a team
* Good organisational skills
* Ability to prioritise and organise workload
* Flexibility around working hours
Desirable
* Computer literacy
* Venepuncture
* Cannulation
Employer details
Employer name
East and North Herts NHS Trust
Address
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG1 4AB
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