Contact information
Laura Midwood - Deteriorating Adult Response Team Lead
email: laura.midwood@nhs.net
Tracey Spacey - Lead Nurse for Critical Care
email: tracey.spacey@nhs.net
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a highly skilled, professional, dedicated and approachable team responsible for responding to deteriorating patients. Working autonomously, the team assess, formulate, implement and evaluate plans of care for acutely unwell, deteriorating adults, escalating to other health professionals as required.
The team has a close working partnership with Critical Care colleagues including a supportive clinical lead intensivist, providing education and training, facilitating continued professional development. The team pride themselves on delivering high standards of care to all whilst actively identifying ways to progress professionally and as a team, implementing new projects to benefit patients within our community.
This role will involve a rotational working pattern, incorporating day and night shifts with a dedicated preceptorship period.
Main duties
* Responding to referrals from track and trigger mechanisms relating to acutely unwell and deteriorating patients
* Assessing, formulating, implementing and evaluating individualised treatment plans
* Escalating concerns to other health professionals and working confidently as part of an MDT
* Undertaking teaching and education for both nursing and medical professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate
* Ensuring patients discharged from Critical Care receive ongoing rehab by monitoring patients following Critical Care discharge, involving members of the MDT if required and providing psychological support
* Support colleagues throughout the hospital with caring for acutely, unwell and deteriorating patients. Initiating hot and cold debriefs following significant events or incidents
* Undertaking an active role on the cardiac arrest team, including completion of ALS certification
* Handling and responding to Call4Concern, escalating through appropriate routes as required
* Supporting Critical Care colleagues with intubations, line insertion in environments out of critical care
* Facilitating timely admissions to Critical Care, supporting with both intra and inter hospital transfers
Essential person specification requirements:
* Significant post registration experience caring for acutely unwell patients in an enhanced care setting inclusive of ED, L1 surgical and medical environments and within Critical Care.
* Experience in undertaking assessments of patients using a recognised systematic approach
* Extensive clinical knowledge in the care and management of acutely unwell adults
* Demonstrates ability to work within a small team and importance of team dynamics
* Registered Nurse with current registration
* Evidence of professional development in relevant acute / critical care area
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
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Our benefits
* Access to the NHS pension plan
* Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
* Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
* Extensive benefits and support, including:
* Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Home electronics scheme
* Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
* Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
* Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
* Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
* Career progression, training and support
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