Critical Care Outreach Practitioner

Caring, compassionate, enthusiastic, highly skilled and professional. This is how we describe our Critical Care Outreach Team who provide a 7-day critical care outreach service across three hospital sites.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for nurses with extensive experience in managing critically ill patients to join our Critical Care Outreach team as a band 6.

Our Outreach nurses provide high quality care to acutely unwell patients outside the physical boundaries of the critical care unit, whilst supporting ward teams to safely manage them and/or support timely escalation to the critical care unit. Our nurses also work on our critical care unit at the Grange University Hospital.

We are looking for highly skilled experienced nurses with excellent communication, organisational, clinical and teaching skills who can demonstrate a commitment to care for acutely unwell patients.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working in a highly skilled and specialist collaborative team to provide specialist care to critically ill patients outside the physical boundaries of the critical care unit.

To support ward based staff and medical teams to safely manage patient deterioration

To follow-up patients recently stepped down from critical care and to promote the Treatment Escalation Planning (TEP) process.

To support and deliver education and training that aligns with the Deteriorating Patient and Resuscitation agenda.

To support the collection, collation and evaluation of deteriorating patient associated data and cardiac arrest statistics required for organisational and national audit agenda and reporting.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

To work as part of a highly skilled and specialist collaborative team that provides high quality specialist care to patients with critical illness outside the physical boundaries of the critical care unit across three hospital sites. A significant part of this role, will involve supporting ward based staff and medical teams to safely manage patient deterioration. This will include providing advice, support and education to manage these patients, and/or to support timely escalation and/or transfer where required to central critical care facilities; to follow-up patients recently stepped down from critical care and to promote the Treatment Escalation Planning (TEP) process.

The delivery of education and training that aligns with the Deteriorating Patient and Resuscitation agenda is central to this role. This will include the delivery of recognition and management of the deteriorating patient programmes as well as basic and intermediate life support training to medical, nursing, allied healthcare professionals and other organisational employees.

The Outreach practitioner will also be required to support the Resuscitation & Critical Care Outreach service in the collection of associated deteriorating patient data and cardiac arrest statistics required for organisational and national audit agenda and reporting. Evaluating this data to inform service delivery and training needs is also a part of this role.

The post holder will be a registered nurse with extensive critical care experience and management of acutely unwell patients in a level 2 and 3 clinical environment. All work will be in accordance with NMC Professional Code of Conduct (2018) and legislation affecting nursing practice.