Registered Nurse- Elderly Care
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage, East of England
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust based in Stevenage. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043. Applications close on 28 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our pat...
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care needs of patients from admission (or before) to discharge, with the involvement of patients and their relatives/carers.
Participate in the ongoing training, supervision and support of registered and non-registered nursing staff. This includes Trainee Assistant Practitioners, Clinical Support Workers undertaking apprenticeships and pre-registration Student Nurses.
Evaluation of own knowledge and practice and makes effective use of appropriate learning opportunities, such as department training, Trust training, conference attendance, shadow staff, literature searching and reading.
Communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, nursing collages, the Multidisciplinary Team and all other relevant personnel.
Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations, utilise escalation strategies, such as SBAR and pathways.
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 in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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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.
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 on-going learning; - Ability to product updated personal professional portfolio
Desirable: - Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification; - Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
Essential: - Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal; - Ability to work within a team; - Good self-awareness; - Good organisational skills; - Ability to priorities and organise workload
Desirable: - Flexibility around working hours; - Computer literacy; - Venepuncture; - Cannulation
Essential: - Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclus; - Role model our Trust values every day
Desirable: - Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements; - Resource management awareness
How this role compares
We hold 893 NHS vacancies in East of England that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays less than about 68% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,295 of them in East of England.
You have 7 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust has 30 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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