We are seeking to expand our Critical Care outreach Service to deliver a 24hr service 7 days a week. We are looking for experienced outreach nurses to help us deliver high quality, patient focus care to acutely unwell patients needing our expertise.

As an outreach nurse you will be ensuring those patients who are identified as deteriorating or are at risk of deterioration and at their most vulnerable receive timely, decisive care to ensure the best outcome for the patient.

You will work collaboratively with several medical disciplines and colleagues to ensure patients receive a timely review in response to triggers and/ or concerns raised from staff in the clinical areas. You will work with your peers to ensure professional development and increase education and knowledge around deteriorating patients and interventions and escalations required to keep patients safe.

As a team we are working towards implementation of Martha's Rule to ensure patients, their carers, families or ward staff are able to communicate their concerns and receive an impartial, balanced response from our outreach service. You will have a vision of how we can achieve this and be influential in delivery and facilitation of new methods of interacting with patients, carers and their families.

As a senior member of the team you will be influential in how we develop our services in the future so we are looking for innovative forward thinking candidates able to put patients as the focus of our service.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Outreach practitioner you will be responsible for ensuring deteriorating patients receive a timely review of their care and liaise and escalate to specialities as required. You will negotiate treatment plans and ensure thorough reviews of the patients their care is carried out in a decisive timely manner. By completing advanced patient assessment you will determine interventions that may be required to optimise the patients condition prior to transfer to a higher level of care or to support remaining in their current location with added input.

You will manage your patient caseload and adapt priorities according to new referrals and step down patients from the critical care units. You will need to respond to referrals from varying specialities to determine the priorities of your workload.

As a senior member of the team you will ensure service needs are met by ensuring team rostering is completed, staff appraisals are carried out and audits related to outreach care delivery are completed including the data required for national CQUIN.

Closing date: 8th September 2024

Interview date: 20th September 2024

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4 th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A& Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Current NMC registration
• Demonstrable experience working in a Critical Care Outreach Team
• Mentoring/Teaching qualification
• ILS certification minimum (preferable ALS)
• Evidence of carrying out patient assessment and production of treatment plan

Desirable

• Completion of National Outreach Forum competencies
• Patient assessment qualification/competencies
• Evidence of rostering skills and team management

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Hospital Burton

Belvedere Road

Burton on Trent

DE13 0RB

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