Job overview

To promote and implement practice conducive to the development of patient centred care. 

Provide professional leadership and take charge of ICU on a day to day basis, being responsible to the unit manager for clinical and non-clinical management of ICU and outreach.

Act as a team leader for clinical staff providing support and guidance.

Demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills. 

Main duties of the job

Utilise current and up to date knowledge about the specific care requirements of patients who may be admitted to the Unit. 

Be knowledgeable about current infection control procedures and policies and ensure all staff and visitors adhere to these at all times.

Be knowledgeable about risk of infection and take responsibility for minimising cross infection within the clinical environment, assist in giving information and placing patients appropriately.

Ensure that patients care is evidence based and that the patient’s journey is streamlined. 

Use a wide range of up to date knowledge and experience for specialist critical care in determining at the time of assessment or admission, the most appropriate and safe patient care.

Assess, act upon and escalate appropriately potential problems or issues to ensure a safe, effective environment for staff, patients and visitors. 

Identify, analyse and act upon staff situations when there is conflict and / or deviation from Trust or local policies and procedures. Identify, analyse, action and discuss with Unit Manager as appropriate any change management issues that arise.  

Use Allocate to access electronic Rota/ Bank and agency rota.  Assist Unit Manager by utilizing available resources to ensure safe and effective patient care e.g. periods of unplanned staff absence and / or equipment failure. 

Be aware of Trust financial position and target objectives and ensure that unit area is as effective as possible in meeting these objectives.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.