Registered Nurse

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Haemodialysis who share/s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. You will be joining an experienced renal team who has extensive experience in developing the workforce to manage renal units. The Renal Team will be providing the clinical management of patients requiring dialysis around the area of Luton. 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 (SACH), Bedford, Chiltern Kidney Centre and Harlow (PAH). Spanning over two decades, our experience in dialysis, innovative research and treatment concepts has earned us national and international recognition. You will work as a member of the multidisciplinary clinical team in renal. You will 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. 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. Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication and modifies communication in response. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care needs of patients on haemodialysis with the involvement of patients and their relatives/carers. Participate in internal shift rotation in order to provide outpatient during Unit opening hours . Participate within a team of nurse and support workers in providing continuity of patient care. Assist in maintaining good communication links with the Multidisciplinary Team, Specialist Nurses and all other relevant personnel. Develop competence and skills required in order to safely use and maintain equipment utilised in the management of renal patients. Develop competence in haemodialysis skills, such as cannulation, evaluation of patient access, and patient fluid assessment. Undertake on-call haemodialysis provision training when gained the clinical expertise to support this for haemodialysis patients at the Lister Hospital

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching 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.