Total 380 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Stevenage, SG1 2FQ

We are recruiting for an Occupational Therapist (Rotational) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This post covers Acute Trust rotations at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and includes Stroke rehabilitation, Acute Assessment unit, General Surgery and Amputees, Orthopaedics, General Medicine, and Elderly care. Within the rotations, we provide strong and established professional leadership, excellent team support and opportunities to contribute to service and clinical development. The rotations are 6 months in length to provide the opportunity for you to gain valuable skills in a variety of clinical areas.

You will be joining a proactive, integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service with excellent peer and senior support. We are looking for someone with sound clinical reasoning and communication skills, as well as an ability to work within a team and to use your initiative.

We would welcome applications from experienced occupational therapists and newly qualified.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Within this role you will be required to assess and treat own caseload of patients and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner with access to a senior member of staff for advice and support on a daily basis.

Communicating with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, and other health care professionals, patients, relatives, and carers who may be in direct contact with regards to patient care.

You will undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance including self-maintenance, productivity, and leisure for patients. Undertaking assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations/multi-pathologies with supervision.

As well as working in the hospital setting, you will also carry out accompanied home visits or unaccompanied access home visits, to assess the patient/client’s functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS 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 understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

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 applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.


This advert closes on Thursday 24 Oct 2024

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurses who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients

Ward 7A is the our new vascular surgery hub for the region, we cover east & north Herts, west Herts and Essex. We are a 29 bedded ward, compromising of 23 inpatient beds, 6 high level care beds (HDU), and an outpatient vascular hot clinic.

With this in mind, you will work as part of the wider multidisciplinary team caring for patient pre and post surgery, rotating around our general ward as well as our 6 higher level care beds. The role requires working days/ nights/ 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!

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care needs of patients from admission (or before) to discharge, with the involvement of patients and their relatives/carers.

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

Participate within a team of nurse and support workers in providing continuity of patient care, patients physical, social and psychological needs are met.

Participate in internal shift rotation in order to provide 24-hour patient care.

Communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, nursing collages, the Multidisciplinary Team and all other relevant personnel.

Carry out clinical procedure and treatments in line with the patient’s plan of care.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS 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 understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

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 applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.


This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of dynamic cardiac specialist nurses for 12 months as maternity cover. You will have experience in cardiology to ensure patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice within Cardiology, focusing mainly on the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients in clinics and our SDEC service.

You will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients. There will be a requirement to provide cross cover within the specialist nursing team.

The role will require working at different sites across East & North Herts NHS Trust. The cardiology department compromises of 2 Cath Labs and a radial lounge. We do a variety of procedures such as coronary angiography, PCIs, providing 24/7 PPCI cover, pacemakers, cardioversions, stress echocardiograms, trans-oesophageal echoes, and complex imaging. There is a 22 bedded acute cardiac unit.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

The Cardiac Specialist Nurse is a recognised expert in the speciality, responsible for assessing, developing, and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence-based care. You will be required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area.

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.

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


This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

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

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

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

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

We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Support Worker Technical Services who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills to work in our busy manufacturing unit within the pharmacy department at the Lister Hospital.

We have a state-of-the-art new unit that has undergone extensive refurbishment. This is an exciting time for you to join our team and work in a brand-new facility.

The Lister Pharmacy Aseptic team is a growing and progressive team that makes personalised medicines, mainly injectable chemotherapy doses, in clean room environments for our Trust's patients.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

You will be expected to follow strict standard operating procedures in the preparation of drug products.

Aseptic preparation of medicines and assembling and transferring drugs and consumables into the clean rooms

Creating documentation using pharmacy software systems

Conducting cleaning of aseptic rooms and associated equipment

Supporting stock maintenance of drugs and consumables

Applicants are required to be able to work methodically and have rigorous attention to detail. You must be willing to meet the strict personal requirements for clean room working and be dexterous to undertake aseptic preparation, including the manipulation and use of needles and syringes.

In house training and accreditation will be provided to achieve the required level of competency; on-going validation of aseptic technique is a requirement of the post.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS 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 understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

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 applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.


This advert closes on Monday 21 Oct 2024

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

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

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

To work within a team that provides an assessment and care service to patients with nursing / health needs.To visit patients in their own homes and provide appropriate care and support as defined in the Care Plan. This will include aspects of personal care, hygiene, uncomplicated nursing procedures, exercise, activity and treatment programmes prescribed by therapists. The aim is to rehabilitate and maximise the patients potential and where appropriate to support the carer.To support and enable patients in a range of activities to promote independent living and monitor their well-being.To undertake administration and clerical tasks that are associated with the care process including record keeping and use of computer.

To be a Registered Nurse for people Learning Disability.(RNLD) or Register Nurse in Mental Health (RMN) To observe and abide by the NMC The Code: Professional Standards of practice and behaviour and all other NMC professional guidance. To meet the N.M.C. Revalidation requirements and CPD as a registered nurse. To work towards the implementation of all national and local policies concerning the care and treatment of people with learning disabilities. To assist in providing and maintaining the management structure of the team. To work as a nurse with a special interest in the promotion of mental health wellbeing & the safe management of challenging behaviour for people with learning disabilities and become proficient in evidenced based positive behavioural support approaches. To work as a member of a specialist multi-disciplinary team (M.D.T.) within the LD and Forensics Service. To support the Clinical Nurse Lead and Community Manager in the development of the nurse team. To have a role in ensuring the smooth running and co-ordination of the service, and monitoring of service activity. To work in liaison with service users, carers, other professionals, in collaboration with other services ensuring a needs-led service. To be involved with and share the responsibility for identifying and developing opportunities for Service Users with learning disabilities to be key to local and Trust wide service operation and development. To work under the direction and supervision of the Clinical Nurse Lead in delivering effective evidence-based practice to adults with Learning Disabilities requiring mental health services. To promote and maintain good working relationships and effective communications / liaison with carers, team colleagues in HPFT, Hertfordshire Health & Community Service and external agents. To carry out health assessments and be competent in reporting back health assessments to the wider MDT. To be supported by the senior nurse team to make recommendations of how to meet those needs, to support the implementation of these recommendations and to monitor, evaluate and review the input and progress. To act in a consultative role to external agencies in relations to clinical interventions, risk assessments & management plans. To maintain appropriate records according to NMC record keeping & HPFT Data Quality policy and guidance. To support the ongoing development of quality services by actively engaging in the Quality and Risk forum. To actively participate and encourage others in quality improvement audits and benchmarking. To work in close liaison with inpatient services To ensure that the Nursing Team within the Community Assessment and Treatment Service works within the Mental Health Act (1983), amended (2007), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Hertfordshire Safe guarding Adults frameworks. Understanding and adhering to local, regional and national policies / procedures and guidelines, ensuring innovative, evidence based and safe practice within the service. To participate where appropriate in the development and implementation of policies / procedures / standards and guidelines in response to new legislation To be responsible for the provision of supervision both formal and informal of band 4 Senior Support Workers, Band 5 Nursing staff and student nurses in the team. All staff should comply with the Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

To provide Therapy to patients within their own home. To provide assessment and treatment for vulnerable patients with complex needs, patients in crisis, supported discharge from either the acute hospitals or those in intermediate care bed based units within the community. To act as the patients advocate throughout their rehabilitation programme and enable patients empowerment through the process. To communicate complex patient related information effectively. To ensure collaborative working with the multidisciplinary team members across health and social care sectors and all members of the Trust ensuring the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills to communicate effectively with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes, and to ensure an understanding of their diagnosis so that patients are supported in self management of their condition. To use communication skills of persuasion, motivation, empathy, tact, explanation and gaining informed consent with a wide variety of vulnerable patients, within often highly sensitive situations. To identify barriers to effective communication that will regularly be evident including: cognitive impairment, expressive and receptive communication difficulties, embarrassment, anxiety, pain, fear and visual/hearing impairments; to develop and implement strategies to overcome these barriers. To use communication skills to address language and culture diversity issues. To maintain accurate and up to date documentation in line with legal requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines. To act as an advisor on professional and clinical issues. To be able to communicate effectively with relatives and carers regarding patient care and progress with the consent of the patient involved. We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance. Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e. font , colour, background, convert to read aloud.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010) Please read the attached full job description and person specification document before applying for this post.