Job overview
Critical Care Outreach Band 7
If you are looking to develop your Career in a clinical post with advanced practice, and are passionate about making a difference to acutely deteriorating patients and providing positive support to ward level staff to develop their ability, then contact us today.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced nurse to join our established team in Critical Care Outreach which expanded to a 24/7 service last year.
We support acutely deteriorating patients in two of our hospital sites in Basingstoke and Winchester. We have implemented Marthas Rule across the acute site hospitals and continue to improve this service. As well as standard Outreach role we run Rehabilitation from critical illness service via our Physiotherapy team member.
We provide Trust wide education programmes to enhance the skills of ward staff and facilitate a level 7 accredited Deteriorating patient module.
This post is for a senior member of the team who will also line manage Band 6 staff and help develop them in the role.
This post comes with the opportunity to apply to develop further by undertaking the Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSc. With credentialling via NOrF Advanced Competency Structure.
Further training is provided for individual needs to achieve and maintain the skills and knowledge to undertake this role effectively.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
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.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
All requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact us as per details below.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Recognised ITU course or equivalent experience
2. Teaching and assessing qualification
3. Degree level education at 2:2 minimum
4. ALS provider
Desirable criteria
5. MSc ACP pathway
6. ENB or equivalent other degree level education in relevant subject.
7. Leadership course or equivalent
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
8. Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within Critical Care Outreach
9. Evidence of Audit or QI activity
10. Experience in supervising and managing junior staff
Desirable criteria
11. Evidence of participation in audit/Q.I
12. Evidence of participation in research
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
13. Able to prioritise and meet deadlines working autonomously
14. Analyses problems and implements appropriates solutions
15. Able to be adaptable in an ever changing work environment.
16. flexible to the needs of the servcie
17. Demonstrates use of human factors elements of interwork communications
Desirable criteria
18. Have a good understanding of the principles of budget management.