Job summary
- Main area
- Bluebell ward
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 361-7419957
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum - pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/09/2025
Employer heading
Registered Children's Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Children's Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We have our children’s 20-bedded acute ward, a day services unit and extensive children's community services.
We will work with you to help you grow in your role and take your career in the direction you want to go. If you want to stay in your role, that’s fine too. We’ll help you be the best you can be.
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.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will identify, assess, plan, implement and continuously evaluate the care of a defined group of patients, within the unit, in partnership with the child and family, ensuring that the highest standards of care are delivered to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs of each child and their family, facilitating a return to optimal health.
You will also ensure that due regard and respect are given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of children and their families.
The post holder will promote an environment that reflects the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and young people, in terms of play, recreational facilities and educational provision. Ensuring specific provision for those with special needs.
You will be courteous and helpful to all patients and visitors in the ward/department and act to safeguard and protect children/young people at all times.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Flexibility around working hours
- Computer literacy
- Venepuncture
- Cannulation
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
- Evidence of commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion for everyone
- Evidence of commitment to the Trust’s values and the ability to demonstrate them at all times
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Evidence of commitment to the Trust’s values and the ability to demonstrate them at all times
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion nonsupervisory posts
- Role model our Trust values every day
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
- Resource management awareness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Trolley
- Job title
- Ward manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438284008
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