Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care Outreach Team
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days and nights and weekends)
- Job ref
- 396-7374540-GO-PB
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital
- Town
- Kingston Upon Thames
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Critical Care Outreach Team Practitioner
Band 7
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
Main duties of the job
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You will work as part of a team, to innovate change in clinical practice across the Trust, and will work closely with other senior leaders to develop and improve services. You will need excellent interpersonal, communication, decision-making and organisational skills, and ability to work as part of the multidisciplinary team and participate in professional networks. Stamina, flexible working, and a commitment to participate in audit and research are required.
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It will be an essential requirement of the role to provide clinical assessment, management, and monitoring of acutely unwell patients, facilitating individual care, essential interventions, and treatment throughout the Trust. The post holder will be required to provide advice and support, formal and informal teaching to ward staff and members of the multidisciplinary team regarding management of critically ill patients.
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To work autonomously throughout the trust (except Paediatrics) providing expertise in all aspects of acute critical care management of patients. To participate in the implementation of strategic approaches to the provision of acute critical care through communication and consultation at all levels of the organisation. To help develop and implement educational strategies, programmes, audit and national recommendations to enhance the care of critically ill patients within the trust.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing and Midwifery Registered Nurse
- ENB 100 or similar/equivalent specialist course in acute and/or critical care
Desirable criteria
- MSc or evidence of post graduate MSC level training in relevant subject
- Advanced Life Support Instructor
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant years of experience as Senior Nurse position in acute emergency care /critical care
- Highly developed expertise acquired through significant experience and study in acute emergency care and/or critical care settings
Your application: Please ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
Artificial Intelligence: We kindly ask that you refrain from using AI tools to draft your application, as we value authentic, individual responses that reflect your own communication style.
References: Please provide 3 years of employment/educational history with professional email addresses (not personal ones like Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot supply these, inform the interviewers to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.
Closing date: To keep our recruitment process efficient, some vacancies may be capped and closed early once we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted by email or SMS from the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted. Please check your registered Trac email regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matifadza Danha
- Job title
- Joint Lead Critical Care Outreach Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8546 7711
- Additional information
For more information please contact: Matifadza Danha, Katie Warmington, Linzi Balshaw or Rebecca Shields CCOT by contacting the switchboard on 020 8546 7711 and asking to bleep Outreach on 867
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