Registered Nurse - Acute Dialysis/RITA

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Stevenage is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Acute Dialysis/RITA team. The role involves providing high-quality nursing care, identifying clinical changes, and working closely with senior colleagues in a supportive environment. This one-year secondment offers an excellent opportunity to enhance renal skills and ensure the needs of patients are met compassionately. The organization emphasizes core values of inclusion, respect, and improvement while supporting flexible working patterns.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in acute dialysis, patient assessment, and care.
• Ability to communicate with patients and families with empathy.
• Competent in identifying clinical changes and making safe decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of nursing care with supervision from senior colleagues.
• Identify clinical changes and seek timely advice from senior colleagues.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate care based on individual patient needs.
• Responsible for accurate recording of clinical observations and patient care data.
• Present and discuss relevant issues with the multidisciplinary team.

Job description

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Acute Dialysis/RITA who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. This post is for a band 5 registered nurse to work within the acute dialysis team and RITA unit. You will be part of a team performing all inpatient dialysis and plasma exchange as well as working within the renal intervention and treatment area (RITA). This is a one year secondment and an excellent opportunity to broaden your renal skills. 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.

Responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of nursing care to meet the needs of patients with supervision and support from senior colleagues.
• To identify clinical changes in patients and make safe and appropriate decisions in partnership with senior colleagues, seeking timely advice whenever necessary.
• To be confident and competent when dealing with deteriorating patients.
• With decreasing levels of supervision, to plan, implement and evaluate care based on our model of nursing ensuring that the needs of each individual patient are met.
• To be responsible for the accurate recording of clinical observations and data relating to patients’ care, ensuring that progress is maintained and reviewed.
• To be able to present and discuss relevant issues with senior colleagues and the multidisciplinary team.
• To communicate with patients and families with empathy and reassurance regarding assessment, care and treatment.

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:

Locations

• 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.