Critical Care Outreach Nurse/Practitioner | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a motivated critical care practitioner to join the Critical Care Outreach Team. You will deliver patient-focused care to critically ill patients, handle high-pressure situations, and facilitate effective communication among patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams. The role offers development opportunities, flexible working, and NHS benefits including generous leave and pension schemes.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible and agile working opportunities

NHS benefits, including generous annual leave

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work under pressure and manage changing priorities.
• Experience in patient-focused care delivery.
• Skills in facilitating communication and support for patients and families.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient-focused care to acutely ill patients.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary teams to ensure smooth transitions of care.
• Develop staff communication skills regarding patient care.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership skills

Critical thinking

Ability to work autonomously

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established and highly respected Critical Care Outreach Team. The team delivers a 24/7 service across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospitals at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative and critical care practitioner to deliver patient-focused care to acutely ill, deteriorating and critically ill patients across the trust. The successful candidate will need to display excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, be able to respond to rapidly changing, high pressure situations and priorities. You will be able to work autonomously and as part of a team and have good critical thinking and decision making skills. You will be instrumental in the early recognition of deterioration and deliver an effective response, liaising with the patient’s own team. You will be able to facilitate smooth transitions of care for patients stepping down from Intensive and High Dependency Care to the general wards and be involved in the provision of a range of education for the multidisciplinary team.

• Ensure that appropriate, consistent and realistic information is provided to patients and families, seeking guidance from respective home teams when required.
• Ensure confidentiality is maintained without compromising patient care.
• Facilitate effective communication between patients, their families and the multidisciplinary teams (MDT).
• In collaboration with the home team, address sensitive issues surrounding futility of continuing treatment and the appropriateness of resuscitation decisions.
• Develop all staff to communicate and elevate concerns regarding ward patients effectively using a recognised communication tool e.g. SBAR.
• Liaise and communicate with the Clinical Site Practitioners and the Hospital at Night Team in the management of acutely ill patients on the ward.

Benefits

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

Our Vision, Mission, Values

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

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This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025.