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Job summary

Main area
Critical Care, CCOT.
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (LD, E/L, Management days)
Job ref
196-NM12097
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Harefield Hospital
Town
Harefield
Salary
£56,388 - £62,785 per annum inc Outer London HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/09/2024 23:59
Interview date
14/10/2024

Employer heading

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Lead Nurse for CCOT and Deteriorating patients

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

  1. The appointee will serve as a professional exemplar, leading clinical operations, managing, and overseeing all aspects of the Critical Care Outreach Teams' (CCOT) nursing and educational activities. They will consistently ensure that patient and caregiver perspectives inform service development. Additionally, they will oversee policies, procedures, and practices concerning deteriorating patients, the acutely ill, Sepsis, NEWS scoring, and Martha's Law, and will actively participate in and contribute to trust-wide meetings and the advancement of new initiatives related to these areas.

Main duties of the job

Main Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Provide direct and indirect patient/customer care.
• Oversee day-to-day management of the CCOT and other personnel under your supervision.
• Ensure a clean and comfortable patient environment, taking proactive action if domestic, catering, or other related contract requirements are not met.
• Ensure staff adherence to infection control policies.
• Champion and translate current trends and developments in nursing and the NHS into practice.
• Develop systems that encourage reflection on practice to inform patient care delivery.
• Support nursing staff in advancing clinical practice through research and evidence-based practice.
• Maintain audit and quality monitoring systems for effective care delivery.
• Offer expertise to any member of the multi-disciplinary team regarding patient care.
• Investigate complaints, accident reports, and untoward incidents within your teams, implementing action recommendations in line with the Trust's Clinical Governance framework and Directorate Quality Board.
• Contribute to the Trust’s Clinical Governance program.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals are the largest heart and lung centre in the UK, with an international reputation for innovation and leadership in treatment and education and are now part of the Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Critical Care Department for an enthusiastic and innovative nurse leader to join our team, which is led by the Critical Care Matrons. This new band 8A post would be suitable for a an individual who has a keen interest and background in Critical Care Outreach and cardiothoracic services.
The successful candidate will need to be highly self-motivated, be able to demonstrate advanced communication, interpersonal and organizational skills and be able to work autonomously as well as within the Critical care and hospital wide teams.

The post holder will be based at Harefield Hospital, but some cross-site working may be required

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Ensure service developments are guided by the perspectives of users.

- Participate in the business planning process, advocating for the nursing perspective and the Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT).

- Actively foresee and prepare for service changes due to evolving internal and external factors. Initiate and conduct meetings with other Trusts/stakeholders to oversee service progress.

- Align the advancement of nursing practices with national directives.

- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to assess clinical practices and initiate new clinical projects.

- Together with Matrons/divisional managers, appraise methods for setting objectives and benchmarking care standards to ensure they are founded on evidence. Create tools to enhance service quality throughout the unit and related services.

- Guide the CCOT in pinpointing service improvements and aid in developing business cases.

- Direct the CCOT nursing teams to achieve the objectives and targets of the Heart Division.

- Support nursing staff in leading the ongoing professional development of both unit staff and themselves, ensuring alignment with service evolution and the business planning cycle.

- Help other Matrons/divisional managers foster and assess a conducive learning environment, promoting nursing audits and research across the division with the aid of audit tools.

- Assess the effective application of research outcomes.

- Encourage the CCOT's involvement in research initiatives and support the implementation of evidence-based practices.

- Establish and supervise robust audit systems to shape clinical practice and promote research in nursing within the clinical area.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • RN Level 1 (Degree in nursing related subject) or equivalent experience
  • Physical Assessment course
  • • Evidence of specialist higher education including short courses at Master’s level or equivalent experience
  • ALS/CALS provider
Desirable criteria
  • MSc in relevant subject
  • ALS/CALS instructor

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Post registration specialist experience at Band 7 or above
  • Experience in managing staff
  • • Specialist knowledge of Critical Care patients and working within the CCOT
Desirable criteria
  • • Varied clinical experience including critical care, cardiothoracics, transplantation, and cardiology.

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Leadership skills
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of research and audit

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ellen Dunthorne
Job title
Matron, Critical Care
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0330 128 5680
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