Critical Care Outreach Specialist Nurse

Job overview

The post holder must be an experienced critical care nurse with detailed knowledge and skills to act as a positive role model through the provision of effective professional leadership and demonstration of competent, accountable clinical practice. The post holder must be competent to work under emergency situations within the MDT and able to prioritise their skill set for the needs of the patient needs.

An Enhanced DBS Certificate with Adults' Barred Lists is required for this post.

• Perform autonomous comprehensive assessments of critically ill patients, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs and varying levels of complexity.
• Provide appropriate care of level 2 and 3 patients delivering treatment and monitoring in ward areas/departments if admission into critical care is not available or inappropriate.
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patients critical care needs are met.
• Co-ordinate & maintain effective communications between critical care, and other ward/departments, managing conflicting views where necessary.
• Effective management of complications, which may occur during and/or post insertion of VADs including; blood stream and exit site infection, thrombus, arterial puncture, nerve damage, malposition/migration of VAD tip, fracture/sever, occlusion and withdrawal occlusion.
• Autonomous decision making regarding the clinical priorities of those patients referred to the PICC/Midline referral service including chemotherapy, OPAT and TPN
• Delegated responsibility for supervision and education of new PICC/line inserters of the team and other inserters within the trust prior to sign off from MET lead.
• CPR / Advanced Life Support Provider as part of the cardiac arrest team.
• Initiating sepsis screening to detect early signs of sepsis in patients allowing prompt treatment and decisive medical management within the first hour of red flag sepsis.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Advertising date: 15th September 2026

Closing date: 30th September 2026

Shortlisting date: W/C 5th October 2026

Proposed Interview date: W/C 19th October 2026

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

• Registered Nurse
• First level Nursing Degree
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Intermediate Life Support
• ALS/ILS/ALERT course or equivalent
• Advanced Life Support (or working towards)
• Clinical assessment level 6 (or working towards)

• Post reg qualification (Management of deteriorating patient or clinical examination/assessment and diagnostics) Level 6

• Must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
• Research awareness and…