Registered Nurse - St Albans Haemodialysis Unit

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; St Albans; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in St Albans is seeking a compassionate Registered Nurse for their Haemodialysis Unit. The role involves delivering high-quality care to dialysis patients, developing care plans, and providing supervision to team members. Candidates must be a registered nurse with haemodialysis experience and strong communication skills. The position supports professional growth and offers a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Commitment to professional growth

Flexible working patterns

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Minimum of six months haemodialysis experience as a qualified nurse.
• Experience of mentoring junior/unqualified staff.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of nursing care to meet the individual needs of dialysis patients.
• Identify and respond to clinical changes in patients.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.
• Accurately record clinical observations and patient data.
• Communicate clearly with patients and families.
• Collaborate effectively with senior colleagues.

Skills

Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments

Ability to prioritise and organise workload

Ability to develop own skills and knowledge

Demonstrate an ability to listen and comprehend

Ability to manage potentially difficult situations

Physiological assessment of acutely unwell patient

Education

Registered Nurse or equivalent with live NMC registration

Recognised teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Registered Nurse - St Albans Haemodialysis Unit

The closing date is 18 November 2025

We are seeking a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse who shares our vision: to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to every patient we support.

As a key member of our dialysis team, you will be responsible for delivering safe, high-quality care to patients undergoing dialysis treatment. You'll assess individual needs, develop, implement, and evaluate personalised care plans for patients dialyzing in our in-centre or satellite units, ensuring all care aligns with professional standards and organisational policies.

In the absence of senior staff, you will provide leadership and supervision to other qualified nurses, healthcare support workers and students, ensuring that every member of the team contributes to excellent patient outcomes. Flexibility is essential, as you will participate in our hemodialysis on-call rota to support the needs of the service.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve.

We encourage all colleagues to embody these values throughout the recruitment process and in their everyday practice with us.

Main duties of the job

We are committed to your ongoing professional growth. Our dedicated education team will support you through:

• Masterclasses and e-learning modules
• Action learning sessions
• Clinical competency assessments

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of nursing care to meet the individual needs of dialysis patients.
• Identify and respond to clinical changes in patients, seeking senior advice as needed to ensure safe, effective care.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate patient care with decreasing levels of supervision, using our established nursing model.
• Accurately record clinical observations and patient data, maintaining thorough and up-to-date documentation.
• Communicate clearly and empathetically with patients and families, offering reassurance and support throughout assessment, care and treatment.
• Collaborate effectively with senior colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team to discuss and resolve clinical issues.

About us

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

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 responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Registered Nurse or equivalent with live NMC registration
• Recognised teaching and assessing qualification

Previous Experience

• Minimum of six months haemodialysis experience as qualified nurse
• Experience of mentoring junior/unqualified staff

Skills

• Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload
• Ability to develop own skills and knowledge
• Demonstrate an ability to listen and comprehend
• Ability to manage potentially difficult situations
• Physiological assessment of acutely unwell patient

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust