Registered Nurse-Urgent Treatment Centre

Job summary
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 back ground of adult or children's 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 along Emergency Nurse Practitioners / Advanced Nurse Practitioners / GP and Emergency Medical Technicians.

The main responsibility of the role will be to triage patients. You will be expected to identify the presenting presentation from patients and stream to the appropriate clinician to see and treat the diagnosis.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job
On a day-to-day basis this role aims to ensure that the overall co-ordination 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 adult and children. This will involve real time monitoring of demand and capacity, which will therefore enable the appropriate and efficient streaming of patients to the most appropriate services.

About us
At East and North Hertfordshire 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.

Details
Date posted: 08 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 361-UPL-8206303
Job locations: Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage, SG1 4AB, United Kingdom

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

Person Specification
Qualifications / Training - Essential

• Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
• Ability to produce updated personal professional portfolio

Qualifications / Training - Desirable

• Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
• Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification

Skills - Essential

• 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 Conduc
• Ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate good organisational skills
• Computer literacy

Skills - Desirable

• Venipuncture and cannulation

Other Requirements - Essential

• Flexibility around working hours with clinical and rotational shifts
• 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

Other Requirements - Desirable

• Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
• Resource management (awareness of budget/supplies)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details
Employer name: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address: Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage, SG1 4AB, United Kingdom
Employer's website:

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: UTC Lead Natalie Sweet, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com