Critical Care Outreach Team Sister​/Charge nurse

Critical Care Outreach Team Sister / Charge Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Critical Care Outreach Team in a substantive post as Sister/Charge Nurse. This role offers successful candidates the opportunity to develop new skills and gain experience as an Outreach team member, contributing to the clinical assessment of the deteriorating patient. The post holder will be an experienced qualified healthcare professional in the field of Critical Care and hold a Critical Care Course or equivalent competencies.

The post holder will play an essential role in assisting the Critical Care Outreach Team to provide extensive clinical advice, education and support to ward based multi-disciplinary teams, across clinical areas throughout the Trust. Providing comprehensive assessment and care of the deteriorating/adult, leading to early intervention and treatment. The post holder will work in partnership with the Multi-disciplinary Team to initiate appropriate care to prevent further physiological deterioration and identify and refer those patients who require ICU/HDU admission.

The post holder will be an experienced qualified healthcare professional in the field of Critical Care who will play an essential role in assisting the Critical Care Outreach Team to provide extensive clinical advice, education and support to ward based multi-disciplinary teams across a number of clinical areas throughout the Trust. The post holder will provide comprehensive assessment and care of the deteriorating/adult, leading to early intervention and treatment.

The post holder will work in partnership with the Multi-disciplinary Team to initiate appropriate care to prevent further physiological deterioration and identify and refer those patients who require Adult Critical Care admission. Please see job description for more information.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

For questions about this job, contact:

Name:
Zara O'Grady
Position:
Band 7 Critical Care Outreach Deputy Matron
Email: zara.o'
Phone:

For questions about this job, contact:

Name:
Zara O'Grady
Position:
Band 7 Critical Care Outreach Deputy Matron
Email: zara.o'
Phone:

Why you should join our Team

The Critical Care Outreach service are a team of experienced individuals, who focus is to provide the highest quality of care to patients experiencing a deterioration in their clinical condition.

Our vision: #Outstanding Critical Care

“To achieve the best outcomes in the safest environments alongside an outstanding patient experience”

Adult Critical Care is committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice so that our organisation is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work, regardless of age, disability, trans identity or history, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

What you will bring to the role

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the skills, experience and qualifications below and those in the attached job description.

Essential to the role are;

• Registered Nurse (Level
  1)
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
• Critical Care Course or equivalent competencies
• Evidence of theoretical, educational and clinical development related to…