Registered Nurse - Discharge lounge | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

We are recruiting for aRegistered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Discharge lounge in Lister hospital is looking for an energetic and proactive staff nurse to join our small team to help the flow .

This is a part time position and no night shifts available.

We are open 7 days a week including bank holidays.

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.

Support the senior sister to ensure that the care delivered in the clinical area is of the highest quality, supported by research and in accordance with local and national policies, procedures and guidelines.

Be a professional lead for the nursing team, promoting the highest standard of patient care.

Work with the senior sister in the development, monitoring and auditing of standards of patient care within the department and implementing the necessary.

Ensure that patients, their families and carers have access to information that is current and allows them to make relevant and necessary decisions in order to participate in their condition management.

Responsible for best practice of infection prevention and control ensuring that there is a clean environment for patients and carers.

Ensure that infection control policies and procedures are applied consistently across the Multidisciplinary Team.

Support the senior sister to ensure good effective working relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To ensure high standard of nursing care is performed at all times and assists in the review and regular update of these standards in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and trust policies.

Communicates sensitive, confidential information, including condition related information concerning patients/clients with empathy ,persuasion and reassurance.

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.

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

This advert closes on Monday 21 Sep 2026