Critical Care Outreach Practitioner

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a dedicated nurse with critical care experience to join a leading NHS trust's outreach team in London. This role offers a chance to enhance your clinical and leadership skills while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. You'll be responsible for identifying patients at risk of deterioration, providing essential interventions, and delivering education to ward teams. With a commitment to excellence and innovation, this organization strives to create a supportive and inclusive environment for all staff. If you're passionate about patient care and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• RGN with critical care experience at Band 6 or above.
• Postgraduate certificate in relevant nursing specialties.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and effective care in Level 1 areas.
• Teach and assess clinical skills in practice.
• Audit patient outcomes for service improvement.

Skills

Critical Care Experience

Advanced Assessment Skills

Leadership

Teaching Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Registered General Nurse (RGN)

Postgraduate Certificate in ICU/Neurosciences/Cardiology

Degree Level Education

Intravenous Accreditation

Immediate Life Support (ILS)

Job description

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Critical Care Outreach Practitioner, London

Client:

Barts Health NHS Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated nurse with critical care experience to join our critical care outreach team (CCOT) for a 9-12 month secondment (dependant on start date). This is an opportunity for existing band 7’s or senior Band 6 nurse to further develop their clinical, leadership and teaching skills.

Our CCOT team is a practitioner led service supported by the critical care consultant lead for the service. You will have the opportunity to work both within the team and independently, identifying patients at risk of clinical deterioration and prioritise with appropriate assessment, intervention and on-ongoing management. Teaching and delivering education to ward teams is an essential part of the role together with supporting deteriorating patient quality improvement work across site.

There will be opportunities for you to further your professional development within this secondment both clinically and leadership opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Collaboratively work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team to provide safe and effective care in Level 1 areas.
• Recognise and respond to acutely ill and deteriorating patients ensuring timely interventions by the most appropriate member of the healthcare team particularly out of hours.
• Respond to clinical emergencies as they arise.
• Teach and assess clinical skills in practice as the opportunity arises.
• Act as a professional role model for acute care.
• Audit patient outcomes and service delivery and work collaboratively with other key personnel to introduce change for service improvement.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RGN
• Post graduate certificate in ICU/Neurosciences/Cardiology or CT Nursing
• Educated to a degree level
• Intravenous Accreditation
• ILS
• Evidence of further professional development

Experience

• Critical Care experience (including level 3) at Band 6 level or above
• Team Leadership experience

Knowledge

• Demonstrated excellence in Clinical Care
• Understanding of audit
• Able to solve problems

Skills

• Possess advanced assessment skills
• Able to care for level 3 patients outside critical care
• Productive and effective team member
• Demonstrates strong leadership
• Effective teacher
• Uses initiative and priorities workload effectively
• Compassionate and caring nurse/practitioner