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Critical Care Outreach Practitioner
The closing date is 04 August 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Critical Care Outreach Practitioner in the friendly Critical Care Outreach team at the QEQM Hospital; they will be responsible for overseeing the high standards of care required for looking after the deteriorating/critically ill patients.
Main duties of the job
Main duties can be located in the job description.
The post holder will work at an enhanced level of practice utilising highly developed post graduate experience, knowledge and skills in Critical Care specialty. They will manage discrete aspects of a patient's care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, within their current level of practice and patient group, aligned to the four pillars of practice and aligned to Trust policy, 'Enhanced, Advanced and Consultant Level Practice- Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs).'
The post holder will contribute to nursing/midwifery/AHP practice to improve the quality of care to patients.
About us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person Specification
Skills and experience
* Significant postgraduate healthcare experience demonstrating professional development across the four pillars of practice
* Significant experience of care in critical or emergency care medicine
* Experience of working with patients/service users to resolve concerns and improve their experience
* Evidence of effective networking
* Experience of supervising staff and delivering training
* Post graduate qualification in consultation and clinical assessment
* Experience of presenting to groups of staff/public
Personal/professional attributes
* Ability to work within a team to achieving goals for a shared vision
* Evidence of service development and delivery in practice
* Knowledge of health policy and application to practice
* Ability to problem solve, anticipate and plan, individually and within a team
* Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner
Qualifications
* Current NMC/HCPC registration
* Formal teaching or mentoring
* Degree relevant to professional registration and area of clinical practice or holds L6 post registration modules with date to complete degree programme.
* Evidence of continuing professional development within Critical Care or Emergency Care Practice.
* Master's Degree in a Critical or emergency care
* Advanced physical qualification
* Advanced practice or Masters/L7 programme commenced
Other
* Flexibility in working patterns to meet the needs of the service
* Commitment to equity and diversity
* Self-motivated, positive, adaptable and flexible approach
* Upholds and role models the Trust values
* Knowledge of best practice, key issues and developments in the deteriorating patient programme
* Knowledge of best practice, key issues and developments in the deteriorating patient programme.
Governance
* Understanding of quality governance, patient safety and patient experience tools to support clinical practice and service improvement
* Sound knowledge and understanding of national and local policy and guidance
* Utilisation of clinical effectiveness tools to deliver quality improvement e.g. risk management and clinical audit
* Evidence of innovative practice utilising research and audit
* Experience of contributing to quality improvement in safety/quality improvement projects
* Experience of writing reports and presenting to teams or small groups
* Experience of implementing and evaluating improvements in care
* Experience in audit and clinical data collection
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a yearpro rata per annum
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