Registered Nurse - Emergency Department

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Emergency Department who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Due to the expansion of our Emergency Department and Urgent Treatment Centre, we are looking for nurses who are searching for opportunities to further develop their career and possess excellent communication skills, strong team working skills, and evidence the delivery of good patient care.

The ED prides itself on providing high quality, compassionate care and a desire to be amongst the best. The expansion includes new builds, the Acute Assessment Unit, and ward upgrades, including 16 trolley spaces for direct GP heralded patients and 2 ward areas for acute short stay medical admissions.

If you are dynamic, enthusiastic and looking for the next challenge to help build further on our reputation as one of the safest and best hospitals, then this role may be for you.

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.

• 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, including Trainee Assistant Practitioners, Clinical Support Workers undertaking apprenticeships and pre-registration Student Nurses.
• Evaluate own knowledge and practice and make 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.
• Provide oversight of OSCE training and support trainees as required (
  
  Note:
  
  we are not currently able to support OSCE training).

• Registered Nurse with a valid UK nursing license.
• Excellent communication skills and strong teamwork abilities.
• Evidence of delivering good patient care in an emergency setting.

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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 is now more important than ever.

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.