Lead Nurse for Acute Response Team

Transformationunitgm; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Lead Nurse for the Acute Response Team in Huddersfield. The role involves clinical leadership, managing a team, and providing care for acutely deteriorating patients. Candidates should have strong leadership skills and relevant qualifications in acute care.

Qualifications

• Evidence of post registration study in acute or critical care.
• Teaching and assessing post registration qualification.
• Willingness to undertake ALS certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Acute Response Team to ensure safe and effective patient care.
• Manage team and provide clinical and managerial leadership.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for deteriorating patients.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Assessment

Education

Independent Prescribing

PG Certification in Acute Care

Job description

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Huddersfield royal infirmary Town Huddersfield Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 18/06/2025

Lead Nurse for Acute Response Team

NHS AfC: Band 7

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us. Find out more - Why Choose CHFT?

Our Future Plans

The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visithttps://future.cht.nhs.uk/

Job overview

The post holder for the lead Nurse of the Resilience, Acute Flow and Transformation directorate sitting within the Corporate Division, working effectively with fellow ward teams and Divisional Matrons to deliver quality services for patients, efficiently. There is a specific focus on the deteriorating patient and improving outcomes for patients.

The post holder will lead the Acute Response Team, providing an exemplary service to patients.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to acutely deteriorating and critically ill patients. This includes non-medical prescribing, ultrasound guided cannulation, arterial blood gas sampling, spirometry out of hours, review of all tracheostomies/laryngectomy patients, liaising with Critical care.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical and managerial leadership for nursing and other healthcare professionals.

· Line manage Acute Response Practitioners and or other support roles within the Acute response team

· The post holder will provide advice and support to wider members of the multi-disciplinary team.

· To perform delegated tasks on behalf of the matron in their absence

· To support with education for Martha’s rule in the Acute Response Team and with wider organisation

· To ensure risk assessments are completed alongside the matron

· To facilitate the stepdown of patients from Critical Care to ward areas.

· To provide informal and formal education to all healthcare professionals within the Trust.

· To proactively manage the clinical workload at night as necessary.

· The post holder will be required to rotate between both sites that make up Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS– yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· The post holder is responsible for leading the acute response team to ensure safe and effective patient care.

· Management of team

· To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to deteriorating patients referred by the ward teams and NEWS2 escalation.

· Work closely with the medical, surgical and critical care registrars and junior teams, attending medical handovers.

· Provide expert clinical advice and guidance to ward staff in the support of patients 24/7.

· To provide informal and formal education to all staff regarding recognition and care of deteriorating patients and acutely ill patients.

· Manage and support the Nursing associates triage request via Task Management system to coordinate the delivery of care in Out of Hours period.

· Establish and maintain effective communication with all members of the multi-disciplinary teams.

· To liaise and work closely with medical and nursing staff within Critical Care.

· Work in partnership with ward managers to ensure that prescribed standards of patient care are met.

· To support the Clinical lead with Quality Improvement projects across the trust, taking the lead when required.

To provide relevant and clear information, education and advice for patients, carer’s and family at all times

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

• Independent Prescribing or to complete this in within 2 yrs
• Evidence of post registration study and development in acute or critical care
• Teaching and assessing post registration qualification
• PG- Certification in acute care/Critical care course or willingness to do this within 2 years

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

• Extensive & recent experience in acute/critical care setting
• Advanced clinical knowledge
• ALS certificate (or willingness to immediately undertake)
• IRMER (Ionising Radiation), willingness to undertake to enable x-ray requesting
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Competent in cannulation & phlebotomy or willingness to undertake in 3 months including ultrasound guided cannulation
• Competent in male/female catheterisation or willingness to undertake in 3 months
• Competent in arterial blood gas sampling or willingness to undertake in 3 months
• CVAD trained competent
• Verification of Death or willingness to undertake in 3 months
• Competent in spirometry

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Understands complex clinical and technical problems and exercises specialist clinical judgement when assessing and interpreting specialist and acute patient conditions
• Competent in use of Nerve centre
• Has self -confidence and uses this to lead, involve and challenge others as appropriate
• Displays a strong motivation and commitment to success

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that’s why we encourage applications from all.Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

If you have any questions please contact [e-mail] for assistance.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.