Critical Care Outreach Nurse / Practitioner in Aylesbury

Be part of our BHT family. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics.
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services.
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services.
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us. We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer. We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established and highly respected Critical Care Outreach Team. The team delivers a 24/7 service across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospitals at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative and critical care practitioner to deliver patient-focused care to acutely ill, deteriorating and critically ill patients across the trust. The successful candidate will need to display excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, be able to respond to rapidly changing, high pressure situations and priorities. You will be able to work autonomously and as part of a team and have good critical thinking and decision making skills. You will be instrumental in the early recognition of deterioration and deliver an effective response, liaising with the patient’s own team. You will be able to facilitate smooth transitions of care for patients stepping down from Intensive and High Dependency Care to the general wards and be involved in the provision of a range of education for the multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will be an experienced practitioner providing early intervention to acutely unwell adults utilising appropriate assessment and observation skills to develop treatment plans. Under supervision of the senior Critical Care Outreach (CCO) team, they will assist in promoting the development of expanded practice throughout the Trust whilst ensuring the role of the CCO service evolves to meet changing demands. The following objectives for Critical Care Outreach Services (DoH, 2000) are key components of the role:

• Avert admissions by identifying patients who are deteriorating and either helping to prevent admission or ensuring admission to a critical care bed happens in a timely manner.
• Enable discharges by supporting the continuing recovery of discharged critical care patients and their significant others.
• Share critical care skills with staff in wards, ensuring enhancement of training opportunities and skills practice and to use information gathered from the ward and community to improve critical care services for patients and relatives.

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve. A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time. Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures. Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system. The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed. All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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.

For further information please contact the critical care outreach team on bleep 566 via Stoke Mandeville Hospital or bleep 3932 at Wycombe General Hospital. Or contact CCOT on the SMH baton phone on 07816 076363.