Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Response Teams : Critical Care Outreach and Hospital at Night
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Cross site. Long days/Nights - internal rotation - nights, weekends and BHs.)
- Job ref
- 343-7388719-RB-SK
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom and St Helier Cross site
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Critical Care Outreach Practitioner CNS Band 7
Band 7
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
Critical Care Outreach Practitioner CNS, Band 7
Permanent 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated nurse with critical care/ acute clinical and leadership experience to join our Critical Care Outreach team (CCOT) as we expand our service to provide 24/7 cross site cover.
The successful applicant will join a supportive and dynamic team, leading on delivering high standards of care to acutely unwell patients across our site. CCOT teams are a nurse led service supported by the critical care consultant team. You will have the opportunity to work both as a team and independently, identifying patients at risk of clinical deterioration or that are deteriorating have their needs prioritised with appropriate assessment, intervention and on-ongoing management. Teaching and delivering education to ward teams is an essential part of the role together with leading on deteriorating patient quality improvement work across site.
We will provide learning opportunities to develop clinical skills within the CNS role.
Main duties of the job
- Collaboratively work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team to providing safe and effective care in ward 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
The successful applicant will join a supportive and dynamic team, leading on delivering high standards of care to acutely unwell patients across our site. Our Hospital at Night and CCOT teams are a nurse led service supported by the consultant team. You will have the opportunity to work both as a team and independently, identifying patients at risk of clinical deterioration or that are deteriorating have their needs prioritised with appropriate assessment, intervention and on-ongoing management. Teaching and delivering education to ward teams is an essential part of the role together with deteriorating patient quality improvement work across site.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this post
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN BSc
- Recognised Critical Care or relevant Acute Care Course
- Clinical Reasoning Advanced Patient Assessment Course
Desirable criteria
- MSc
- Non Medical Prescribing Course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant Acute/ Critical Care Experience
- Leadership and shift leading Experience
- Change Management
Desirable criteria
- Previous outreach experience
- Previous band 7 experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced Patient Assessment and Critical Thinking Skills
- Established Team / Shift Leading Skills
- Collaborative MDT Working
- Record of Teaching and Assessing Clinical Practice
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Able to Prioritise Work load
Desirable criteria
- Research Skills
- Audit Skills
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Camilleri
- Job title
- Head of Nursing Critical Care Theatres Anaesthetic
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07770445691
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