Job overview
Tunbridge Wells Kidney Treatment Centre is looking for an experienced Band 5 Haemodialysis Staff Nurse. As a Staff Nurse, your role is to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care in a friendly, person-centred environment.
You will also be involved in direct patient care, health promotion and patient education programmes including our dialysis shared-care initiative.
Closing Date: 4th May 2026
Interview Date: 11th May 2026
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the application of knowledge across a range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
- To maintain a safe and effective practice in line with the NMC code.
-To act as an advocate for patients within the area,
- To ensure a holistic person-centred approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards as set out by Guys and St Thomas NHS policies, UKKA and NICE guidelines.
-To ensure that our patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good
patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and
doctrines.
Please see attached job description for full details
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We are a busy transplant centre performing approximately 300 kidney transplants a year and a regional centre for complex kidney transplants supporting SE England and Guernsey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will ensure the safety and well being of services users, and will always work in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through adoption of person centred care principles. They will be working collaboratively and independently without direct supervision. They will be accountable for their own professional conduct as a registered nurse.
They will be responsible for:
A. Nursing assessment of care needs of dialysis patients,
B. Planning programmes of care,
C. Implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision.
D. Appropriate referrals to the multidisciplinary team dieticians, physiotherapy, pharmacists, social services, etc.
E. Appropriate delegation of tasks to non-registered colleagues
F. Display nursing leadership proficiency by role modelling best practice at all times
G. Participate in service improvement initiatives such as benchmarking or audit.
H. Engage and collaborate in supporting nursing students or junior staff
I. in continuously developing practice in the unit
J. Take responsibility in identifying own learning needs and seek opportunities for professional development.
Person specification
Haemodialysis experience
Essential criteria
1. Haemodialysis competency
2. NMC Registered Nurse
Evidence of safe and effective practice
Essential criteria
3. Evidence of ability to reflect on own practice and of others
Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. Evidence of having achieved a suitable nursing qualification
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.