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 enhance your current acute skills and knowledge with in house training. If you currently work in a critical care or acute care environment and want to make a real difference to deteriorating ward patients then contact the senior Outreach team for more information.
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. in a 24/7 rotating shift pattern. 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. In role training and 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
1. Registered nurse (degree level) minimum 2.2 degree.
2. Relevent Critical care course
3. Recognised Mentorship course
4. Evidence of recent and significant post registration development within critical care field
5. Deteriorating patient training
6. Tracheostomy training
Desirable criteria
7. ALS
8. History taking and physical examination course
9. Formal transfer training
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. Significant recent critical care experience as a sister/charge nurse.
11. Evidence of skills in leading clinical teams
12. Evidence of critical care skills to care for level 2 and level 3 patients
13. Demonstrated teaching/coaching skills
14. Demonstrated managerial and communication skills
Desirable criteria
15. Leadership course
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
16. Set up, titrate and manage non invasive ventilation
17. Assist anaesthetic staff during intubation
18. Good organisation skills-educating and co-orientating delivery of care
19. Demonstrate recent ability to care for level 2 and level 3 patients
Desirable criteria
20. Take and analyse Atrial blood gas samples from patients wrist. (needle technique)