Registered Nurse-Urgent Treatment Centre in Welwyn Garden City

Employer: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: New QE11 Hospital

Town: Welwyn Garden City

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,346 and a maximum payment of £2,270 per annum pro rata.

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 22/09/2026 08:00

NHS AfC: Band 5

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, our mission is to provide high-quality, compassionate care for our communities. Our vision to 2030 is to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.

Our values are:

• 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.

Job overview: We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse-Urgent Treatment Centre who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. This post will require a registered nurse from a background of adult or children's nursing to work in the Urgent Treatment Centre in the Lister Hospital. This department cares for minor injury and minor illness. The successful candidate will be working alongside Emergency Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, GPs, and Emergency Medical Technicians. The main responsibility of the role will be to triage patients, identifying their presenting conditions and streaming them to the appropriate clinician for diagnosis and treatment.

Main duties of the job: On a day-to-day basis, this role aims to ensure that the overall coordination of demand on urgent and emergency care services is effectively managed across the service. The key role is to assist the Emergency Nurse Practitioners and GPs in maintaining a safe environment, delivering a high standard of care, and maintaining the well-being and dignity of patients, both adults and children. This will involve real-time monitoring of demand and capacity, enabling the appropriate and efficient streaming of patients to the most suitable services.

Working for our organisation: At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide. Our dedicated staff ensure our patients receive the best care. 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, with our staff and patients 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 flexible working patterns, and we are committed to listening and considering all requests.

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: Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register; Manchester Triage Trained; Evidence of further education, training and ongoing learning; Ability to produce updated personal professional portfolio; Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification; Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification.
• Previous Experience: Clinical experience within the field of acute clinical setting; Current working knowledge and skills within acute clinical setting; Experience of caring for patients with minor injury/minor illness complaints.
• Skills: Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal; Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team; Good self-awareness of professional limitations within NMC Code of Conduct; Ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate good organisational skills; Venipuncture and cannulation.
• Knowledge: Knowledge of Trust Values and evidence of this in practice; Good understanding of good quality patient care and patient safety.

Other Requirements: Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion; Role model our Trust values every day; Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors; Flexibility around working hours with clinical and rotational shifts; Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements; Resource management (awareness of budget/supplies).

When you apply: Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts. Vacancies may close earlier than the advertised closing date where a high volume of applications are received. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out on the opportunity to join the Trust or develop your career with us.

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.