Registered Nurse - Swift Ward | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust


Company:	East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Stevenage, SG1 4AB
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Oct 2026
Closing date:	20 Nov 2026

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Summary

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 a registered nurse, looking for a role within trauma & orthopaedics?

We are in the top three NHS hospital groups in the East of England for size, so, you’ll work with a great mix of patients.

Swift ward is a 27 bedded emergency & elective orthopaedic ward, compromising of single and double patient rooms. As a department we focus on autonomous and nurse led/ patient focused care. As a department, we focus heavily on enhanced recovery, with patients staying on average 2 days post surgery.

As a registered nurse, you will work closely with your nursing colleagues as well as the wider multidisciplinary team, consisting of doctors, physios, OT and the discharge team. to facilitate the speedy and safe discharges of our patients.

This role will include Long days, short days, nights, weekends and bank holidays as per rota.

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.

As a registered nurse you will provide a high standard of care and support the team to deliver a high quality service which is linked to high standards of patient care.

Your main responsibilities include:

Support patient with their ADL's

Facilitate the safe and speedy discharges

Post op wound care

Managing deteriorating patients

Provide patient centred/ focused care

Work with multidisciplinary teams

Support clinical support workers in their duties

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & 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; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & 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 information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Nov 2026

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