Critical Care Outreach Practitioner

NHS; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Bournemouth is seeking a Critical Care Outreach Practitioner to support clinical care and ensure patient safety. This role focuses on monitoring patients, attending emergency calls, and providing educational support. Candidates should have significant clinical experience and the ability to work independently in acute care settings. This position offers a competitive salary range of £38,682 to £54,710, depending on experience and qualifications.

Qualifications

• 4 years post qualification basic experience required.
• 2 years recent experience at Band 5 in adult acute care specialty.
• Evidence of ability to manage staff is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support clinical care of patients at risk of deterioration.
• Monitor deteriorating patients via electronic warning systems.
• Attend cardiac arrest calls in conjunction with the Resuscitation Team.

Skills

Ability to manage staff

Excellent clinical skills

Ability to teach and supervise junior colleagues

Experience with developing nursing practice

Ability to undertake extended physical skills

Education

Degree level education

NMC registration

ALS Instructor

Advanced physical examination course

Job description

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Critical Care Outreach Practitioner

The closing date is 23 September 2025

Overview

The Critical Outreach Team at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled and clinically motivated Outreach Practitioner to join our service at Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospital. This team supports the clinical care of patients at risk of deterioration or other immediately life threatening events or risk of suffering a cardiac arrest.

Main duties

This role is key to the Trusts Patient Safety and Critical care agenda through the delivery of education, quality improvement and audit and clinically focused support.

The team is made up of ICU skilled and experienced staff who provide support to all the general medical and surgical wards and other areas including Interventional Radiology, ED, the Cardiac Intervention Unit and also Critical Care. The team will expedite admissions to specialist areas and follow up patients discharged from ICU/HDU on a daily basis. They also monitor deteriorating patients via the Trust wide electronic warning system along with attending cardiac arrest calls in conjunction with the Resuscitation Team and providing escort duties for Level 2/3 patients around the Trust.

This role will develop high level critical thinking and decision making skills, and work towards performing at an advanced level. This role will develop over time in response to changes in service delivery and we are therefore looking for practitioners who are energetic, eager to develop and are forward thinking with the potential to adapt to change and meet new challenges. In return we will support you at every level to enable you to develop your new role.

About us

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

31/12/25 CCOT will be on the RBH site only however this could happen earlier or be delayed.

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.

Qualifications

• NMC registration
• Degree level education
• ILS
• ALS
• ABG/ Central line
• AIM Course
• ALS Instructor
• PILS
• NORF Outreach competencies of enhanced practice
• Advanced physical examination course
• Non medical Px course

Experience

• 4 years post qualification basic experience
• 2 years recent experience at Band 5 within an adult acute care speciality (ITU / HDU or CCU / ED / High Care area with proven competency based critical care experience.
• Evidence of ability to manage staff
• Transfer of Critically ill patient
• Experience with developing nursing practice.
• Previous Band 6 experience
• Ability to care for a level 1b, 2 or 3 patient with no immediate supervision in a ward / ED setting.
• Ability to teach and supervise junior colleagues and students.
• Epidural guidance and expertise o PCA guidance and expertise
• Excellent clinical skills
• Ability to undertake extended physical skills such as ABG sampling
• Previous experience or involvement in research/audit projects.
• IRMER training

Knowledge

• Ability to provide expert advice on CPAP and NIV.
• Communicate with patients, relatives and carers sensitive clinical information in a way that takes into account the level of understanding and any barriers that may have an impact on the individual receiving and understanding the information, face to face and via the telephone on a frequent daily basis.
• Policy guidance which directs Outreach service provision.
• Experience of change management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £54,710 a yearOn completion of physical examination & Prescribing = Band 7