Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 251-SURG7482-ICU
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross Site BNHH & RHCH
- Town
- Basingstoke
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/12/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Deputy Sister/ Charge Nurse Critical Care Outreach
Band 6
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, experienced nurse to join our 24/7 Critical Care Outreach Team. This Band 6 Critical Care Outreach Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse post is an excellent opportunity to advance your clinical knowledge, develop clinical examination and diagnostic skills while caring for acutely deteriorating patients within our Trust. There is an opportunity to undertake our bespoke Outreach Foundation Programme and then develop further in the team to gain Band 7 trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner post.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to work cross site at both Basingstoke and Winchester hospitals to provide an integrated hospital wide approach to critical care. You will provide support and follow up to post critical care patients in ward areas and provide ongoing support for patient care and management.
Within the outreach team you will support ward based nursing and medical staff to enable them to recognise and treat deteriorating patients within the ward are. Thus, helping to prevent avoidable critical care admissions and ward based cardiac arrests. You will co-ordinate and facilitate the appropriate transfer of patients into critical care and the high dependency unit.
In this role you will provide education and training to nursing and multi-professional teams across both sites regarding the deteriorating patient. Both in role training and University based education will be provided to support the skills required for this post.
Working for our organisation
At Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three hospitals in Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover, as well as in the care we provide in the community. We provide medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire and specialist services to people across the UK and internationally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Please see attached job description and personal specification for further detail on the main responsibilities and requirements of this role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse (degree level) minimum 2.2 degree.
- Relevent Critical care course
- Recognised Mentorship course
- Evidence of recent and significant post registration development within critical care field
- Deteriorating patient training
- Tracheostomy training
Desirable criteria
- ALS
- History taking and physical examination course
- Formal transfer training
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant recent critical care experience as a sister/charge nurse.
- Evidence of skills in leading clinical teams
- Evidence of critical care skills to care for level 2 and level 3 patients
- Demonstrated teaching/coaching skills
- Demonstrated managerial and communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Set up, titrate and manage non invasive ventilation
- Assist anaesthetic staff during intubation
- Good organisation skills-educating and co-orientating delivery of care
- Demonstrate recent ability to care for level 2 and level 3 patients
Desirable criteria
- Take and analyse Atrial blood gas samples from patients wrist. (needle technique)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Edwards
- Job title
- Clinical Matron Critical Care Outreach & Sepsis
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07784721878
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