Job summary
- Main area
- Renal dialysis
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7228411
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harlow Dialysis Unit
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Registered Nurse - Harlow Satellite
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 Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is home to one of the UK’s largest renal & haemodialysis unit programmes, offering nurses the unique opportunity to work across a wide variety of clinical specialties and to progress their professional development.
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 provide a high standard of nursing care to meet the needs of patients with supervision and support from senior colleagues.
You will identify clinical changes in patients and make safe and appropriate decisions in partnership with senior colleagues, seeking timely advice whenever necessary.
With decreasing levels of supervision, you will plan, implement and evaluate care based on our model of nursing ensuring that the needs of each individual patient.
The post holder will be responsible for the accurate recording of clinical observations and data relating to patients care, ensuring that progress is maintained and reviewed.
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 or equivalent with live NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of six months hemodialysis experience as qualified nurse
Desirable criteria
- Experience of mentoring junior/unqualified staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments
- Ability to prioritise and organize workload
- Ability to develop own skills and knowledge
- Demonstrate an ability to listen and comprehend
- Ability to manage potentially difficult situations
- Physiological assessment of acutely unwell patient
Desirable criteria
- Propose service developments
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of current professional issues
- Ability to support and mentor learners
- Patient focused – committed to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and the relatives/carers
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of critical care
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model our Trust values everyday
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
- Evelyn Craig
- Job title
- Nurse Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 978210
- Additional information
n/a
List jobs with East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors