Job summary
- Main area
- Recognise & Respond Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 234-24-S0083
- Employer
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/05/2024
Employer heading
Recognise & Respond Clinical Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 6
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
This post offers a wonderful opportunity, for the successful candidate, to join the Recognise and Respond team; a forward-thinking service working trust wide, overseeing the response, review and treatment of deteriorating ward patients throughout the NNUH site.
The Recognise and Respond Team role is fast paced and diverse; The team comprises four arms; Rapid Response, the Critical Care Anaesthetic Practitioner Service, Resuscitation, and Education and Quality Improvement. The successful candidate will work as part of the Rapid Response Team, responding to deteriorating patient referrals and supporting all patients stepped down from Critical Care to the wards. They will also be fully involved in the team’s education and quality improvement projects, working to improve standards of care for deteriorating patients across the trust through education, audit and quality improvement. They will also work alongside the resuscitation team to support the delivery of both direct patient care and education.
The successful candidate will be able to bring together clinical skills in assessment and treatment of deteriorating patients with excellent communication skills and a passion for education and quality improvement. This is a hugely exciting role within a dynamic team and we would encourage anyone who has the skills, passion and dedication to make contact.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated and dedicated professional with skills and knowledge in emergency, acute or critical care. The successful applicant will demonstrate their experience in managing the deteriorating patient, bring ambition to drive change and deliver safe and effective patient care in new and innovative ways.
As post holder, your duties will include:
- Supporting ward teams in the detection, management and treatment of acutely deteriorating patients.
- High risk transfers.
- Trust wide education on topics related to acute deterioration.
- Quality improvement work on projects related to deteriorating patients.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide clinical and managerial leadership and support to the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in relation to Level 1 and Level 2 adult patients.
- Assist with audit procedures to optimise the assessment of care of Level 1 and Level 2 adult patients throughout the Trust.
- Raise awareness of issues relating to the safe and effective delivery of care to Level 1 and Level 2 adult patients.
- Establish and maintain professional networking relationships between the Critical Care Complex and the Trust.
- Optimise collaborative working between the Critical Care Complex and ward teams to optimise monitoring, treatment and care.
- To recognise and respond to deteriorating patients across the trust. Assess, plan and implement care in line with Trust policy and procedures.
- To work independently prioritising workload in a variety of clinical settings Trust wide, accepting referrals from medical, nursing and Allied Health staff.
- To undertake complex assessment of acutely unwell patients, undertake and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests, initiate simple measures, prescribe and deliver supportive critical care nursing to clinically optimise the patient, involving the MDT in discussions relating to the management plan and identifying risk versus benefit
- To manage, and provide enhanced supervision to support the nursing care of patients with haemodynamic instability and other appropriate respiratory and vital organ support, for patients that are unable to be admitted to critical care
- To expedite and support the transfer to critical care of critically unwell patients and support ongoing care of patients discharged from critical care
- Assist in the identification of educational needs of the MDT in relation to deteriorating patients within the Trust.
- Provide education in response to identified needs and review and evaluate its effectiveness.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or AHP with appropriate registration
- Post registration Acute Care course or equivalent experience
- Proof of continuous update in specialist areas
Desirable criteria
- ILS or ALS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience including some experience in a position relevant to the speciality
- Acute Care experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to perform clinical skills relevant to the speciality
- Be able to demonstrate teaching performance
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Annie Sturrock
- Job title
- Recognise & Respond Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 646776
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