Registered Nurse - Stroke

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Stroke 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.

As a trust we continually invest in growing and developing our staff to support them in providing the best possible care to our patients.

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.

To ensure a high standard of nursing care is performed at all times and assists in the review and regular update of these standard in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and trust polices.

Participate within a team of nurse and support workers in providing continuity of patient care, patients physical, social and psychological needs are met.

Participate in internal shift rotation in order to provide 24-hour patient care.

Communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, nursing collages, the Multidisciplinary Team and all other relevant personnel.

Carry out clinical procedure and treatments in line with the patient’s plan of care.

Accompany patients to other environments or departments for investigation or 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:

• 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.

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

• 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

• Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
• Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification

• Previous experience in Hyperacute/ Acute stroke care

• Strong communication and…