Newly Registered Nurse

Job overview

Are you due to qualify as a Registered Nurse in 2024? If so, East and North Herts NHS Trust may have the opportunity you have been looking for We have a number of opportunities across East and North Hertfordshire NHS trust, for enthusiastic and committed Newly Registered Nurses.

We are in the top three NHS hospital groups in the East of England for size, so, you’ll work with a great mix of patients.

We have close working links with the University of Hertfordshire and Cambridge University, as well as being a founding member of the
Eastern Academic Health Sciences Network. We have specialties that are not found normally at a general hospital, including cardiology, renal
and robotic urology – this means that your new role will be really interesting and there are great opportunities to learn new skills.

As a trust we continually invest in growing and developing our staff to support them in providing the best possible care to our patients. As a Newly Registered Nurse joining the trust you will automatically be enrolled in our 12 month preceptorship programme. This is an established preceptorship scheme designed around your continuous development with nursing skills, leadership, values and the importance of care and compassion. This will include the support of an allocated preceptor through the preceptorship period.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond

Main duties of the job

You will be required to complete a full application with personal statement, sit an formal interview and assessment process.

As a newly registered nurse you will participate as a member of the nursing team to provide a high standard of research based care, support the team of staff working in the area to deliver a quality service which is linked to high standard of patient care and support the Sisters / Charge Nurses and Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in the training and development of junior staff.

In return we will offer you:

• An on-site dedicated and professional non-medical education team to support you as you progress through your nursing career including a continuing professional development lead, responsible for staff development.
• A Band 5 to Band 6 fast-track scheme which gives our Band 5 nurses all the skills and competencies they need to enable them to be ready for Band 6 opportunities that arise, with full training to support this development.
• An annual appraisal scheme.
• Commitment and participation in a clinical excellence accreditation framework.
• A Band 5 rotation scheme which can be tailored to meet your needs if you wish

We will be holding a Student Nurse Marketplace event on 17th May 2024 2pm - 4pm at the Lister Education Centre Lister Hospital. This will be an opportunity for you to meet our ward/departments and specialities.

We welcome applicants from students who have been on placement with ENHT and those that have not.

Working for our organisation

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.

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

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is delighted to have been awarded the National Preceptorship Nursing Interim Quality Mark from NHS England. Awarded to the Trust in January 2024, the National Preceptorship Award Interim Quality Mark is the national gold standard and was created when NHS England introduced the new national preceptorship framework for nursing, which NHS trusts now use to benchmark themselves against. This means that the support and guidance given to our newly registered nurse and nursing associates is of the standard quality and provides a safe and nurturing environment for professionals to develop their skills as confident and competent practitioners.

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

Person specificationQualificationsEssential 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

SkillsEssential 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
• Flexibility around working hours

Desirable criteria

• Computer literacy
• Venepuncture
• Cannulation

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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