Job summary
- Main area
- Sepsis/Critical Care Outreach Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 225-DIV1-6246539-A
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Cross Hospital
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Sepsis and Critical Care Outreach Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Sepsis and Critical Care Outreach team for an innovative, dynamic and enthusiastic individual, who will be part of a team consisting of critical care outreach practitioners and sepsis practitioners.
The successful candidate will predominantly work as a sepsis practitioner but will also undertake the role of a critical care outreach practitioner when required to meet the service needs.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an experienced critical care nurse with a high level of knowledge regarding sepsis and the deteriorating patient. The Sepsis and Critical Care Outreach Practitioner will work independently, develop good rapport with key leaders and clinicians and have some influencing skills to improve patient outcomes and experiences. They will be required drive early recognition and management of sepsis and the deteriorating patient at ward level.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be responsible and professionally accountable for the assessment of care needs; the development of personalised plans of care, implementation and evaluation of care without supervision.
Ensure the service promotes the early recognition, treatment and management of patients, who maybe deteriorating , or who may have sepsis.
To act in a manner to give assurance that red flag sepsis alerts are responded to appropriately .
Participate in developing and delivering ward based training Trust wide in the early recognition, the management of sepsis and the deteriorating patient.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Critical care experience experience.
- Sepsis awareness and clinical exposure to managing acutely unwell patients
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN post qualification
- Critical Care Post Registration Course or equivalent 14 months post course
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship/SLAiP/supervisor and assessor training or teaching experience
- Professional updating within last 12 months
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Samantha Sewell
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795020364
- Additional information
Matron Samantha Sewell
01902 694639
07795020364
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