Registered Nurse- Outpatients Lister

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients., The Registered Nurse post is a vital and valued role to support in providing high-quality, compassionate nursing care to patient/clients and their families/carers. Based on a ward or unit setting they work closely with the department / ward manager and multi-disciplinary team members in monitoring and maintaining policies, standards of nursing care, staff and service development within the ward or unit setting. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care needs of patients attending the Outpatients Department, with the involvement of patients and their relatives/carers. To ensure a high standard of nursing care is performed at all times and assists in the review and regular update of these standards in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and trust polices.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join the dedicated and friendly team of nurses for Outpatients Department at Lister Hospital. The department is a busy and diverse area with specialties including, ENT, General Surgery, Gastroenterology, Respiratory, Heamatology, Cardiology, Diabetes and Endocrine, Rheumatology, Vascular, Neurology and Urology. If you are seeking a new challenge in your nursing career this could be the opportunity for you at this time. The successful candidate for this post must be self motivated and able to work under own initiative, have excellent time management skills, highly developed communication and people management skills and the ability to manage change.

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.