Job Summary
Senior CCOT Practitioner role at ZeroAge
This post is within the Critical Care Outreach Team (Adult), Band 7, and is a full-time/part-time (30 hours) secondment or maternity cover post. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Band 7 team within the Adult Critical Care Outreach Team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) or similar trust context referenced in the description.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the clinical service, providing ward-based advanced clinical assessments, patient interventions and develop management plans to halt or reverse clinical deterioration.
* Help shape and develop the service with managerial and leadership responsibilities to meet patient and service needs.
* Demonstrate advanced clinical assessment skills and develop extensive knowledge of common clinical situations across specialties (e.g., hypoxia management, NIV, tracheostomy care and weaning, sepsis management, transfer of critically unwell patients).
* Prioritise team workload as shift co-ordinator; provide formal and informal teaching; manage resources such as rosters and sickness; contribute to service development using staff development plans and appraisals.
About Us
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest in the UK and has the Major Trauma Centre for the East Midlands. It is a teaching Trust with active research and development, providing a 24/7 Critical Care Outreach service across campuses.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
* Current registration with the relevant professional body
* Post-basic training critical care course; advanced life-support qualifications
* Evidence of extended CPD/reflective practice
* Degree in health/nursing/physiotherapy or equivalent
* Advanced patient assessment skills; NORF enhanced competencies
* Formal leadership/management training
* Experience at Band 6/critical care and ability to manage a team and deliver care outside of core critical care areas
* Experience with tracheostomy management, weaning, decannulation; budget management; training and mentoring
Desirable Qualifications
* Masters in health/nursing/physiotherapy related studies
* Research training/experience; non-medical prescribing
* Advanced clinical assessment modules at level 7; clinical reasoning and decision-making modules
* ALS instructor
Planning and Organisation
* Able to prioritise own and team workload; effective time and resource management
* Awareness of budget constraints and equipment ordering; strong triage skills
* Experience in service review for national standards compliance; formal quality improvement training
Communication Skills
* Ability to communicate highly complex information via written and verbal channels (SBAR)
* Negotiation and influencing skills; empathic communication with relatives/patients/staff
* Lead productive teamwork; enhanced IT and keyboard skills
Analytical Skills
* Lead assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of patient care during acute deterioration
* Autonomous decision-making within specialty and competence
* Ability to interpret complex information and apply clinical reasoning to practice
Experience
* Significant Band 6 level or equivalent critical care experience; managing autonomous practitioners 24/7
* Experience with tracheostomy management, weaning, decannulation; budgeting; teaching staff; electronic records; NHS HR policies
Physical Skills
* Full range of clinical duties including CPR and urgent procedures; dexterity with equipment
* Ability to use DSE equipment for prolonged periods; ability to mobilise with equipment
Other Requirements
* Flexible, adaptable, confident; caring and motivated
* Enhanced CRB/Disclosure checks; ability to work 12-hour shifts, weekends and nights
* Flexibility to work on both hospital campuses and from home; participate in rotation programme
Job Details
* Location: QMC, Nottingham
* Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 per year pro rata
* Contract: Permanent
* Working pattern: Full-time or Part-time
* Reference: 164-7434373
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