Registered Nurse - Discharge lounge
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a part-time permanent position for a Registered Nurse to join the Discharge Lounge team at Lister Hospital. The role involves supporting the senior sister in ensuring high-quality patient care, promoting professional standards, and maintaining a clean environment. The successful candidate will work to ensure effective communication and adherence to professional conduct and trust policies.
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
- 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
- Computer literacy
- Venipuncture and cannulation
- 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
- Resource management (awareness of budget/supplies)
- Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
- Qualifications / Training
- 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
- Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
- 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
- Computer literacy
- Venipuncture and cannulation
- 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
- Resource management (awareness of budget/supplies)
- Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Registered Nurse - Discharge lounge
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job 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.
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, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
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 co
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