Registered Nurse - Clinical Decisions Unit
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area Clinical Decisions Unit Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment available to internal candidates) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Candidate is expected to work a mix of long days and nights to cover weekdays, weekends, and bank holidays.) Job ref 361-7484409
Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2025 23:59
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.
Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced, dynamic environment? Join our team in the Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) within the Emergency Department at Lister Hospital.
We are seeking for motivated ED and ward nurses to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care to individuals requiring further observation, assessment, or treatment. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical decisions, patient recovery, and timely discharge.
Bring your expertise, compassion, and commitment to make a real difference in patient care.
This post will cover long day and night shifts, weekdays, weekends, and bank holidays.
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 conduct clinical assessments of patients admitted to CDU, including observations and pain levels, ensuring early detection of any deterioration or changes.
You will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care needs of patients from admission to discharge home or transfer to the inpatient wards.
You will assist in developing, implementing, and evaluating individualized care plans for patients based on clinical assessment.
You will administer medications, treatments, and interventions prescribed, ensuring adherence to Trust policies, guidelines, and procedures.
You will collaborate with the MDT to ensure holistic patient care.
You will maintain accurate, comprehensive, and timely documentation of patient care in accordance to Trust policies.
You will be a motivated and compassionate nurse who is dedicated to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care.
You will coordinate the daily activities and operations with CDU and safely pulling patients from other areas within ED, ensuring efficient patient flow, timely assessments, and adherence to clinical protocols.
You will work closely with the Frailty Team to ensure high quality care is delivered to our patients.
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
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
* Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
* Commitment to life long learning
* BLS/ILS Trained
* Evidence of ongoing professional development
* Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
* Experience within an Emergency department / within a ward environment equivalent
* Currently working in an acute ward environment within the NHS
* Experience of supporting students/clinical support workers within the NHS
Skills
* Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
* IV trained and competency signed off
* Ability to work within a team and autonomously
* Recognizing / managing acutely unwell patients
* Cannulation and phlebotomy skills
Knowledge
* Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
* Awareness of current national issues within the NHS
* Awareness on recent NHS England’s drive to improve 4 hour performance for patient safety
Other Requirements
* Role model our Trust values every day
* Awareness of Trust Policies and guidelines particularly infection prevention and control and Uniform Policy
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 Teaching 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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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Angelita Alcantraa Job title Emergency Department Matron Email address angelita.alcantara@nhs.net Telephone number 07444230256 Additional information
You may also contact Lucy Pickersgill at lucy.pickersgill or Natasha Williams at natashawilliams1@nhs.net on my absence.
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