Job overview

The post holder for the  lead Nurse  of the Resilience, Acute Flow and Transformation directorate sitting within the Corporate Division, working effectively with fellow ward teams and Divisional Matrons to deliver quality services for patients, efficiently. There is a specific focus on the deteriorating patient and improving outcomes for patients.

The post holder will   lead the Acute Response Team,  providing an exemplary service to patients.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to acutely deteriorating and critically ill patients. This includes non-medical prescribing, ultrasound guided cannulation, arterial blood gas sampling, spirometry out of hours, review of all tracheostomies/laryngectomy patients, liaising with Critical care.

Main duties of the job

  To provide clinical and managerial leadership for nursing and other healthcare professionals.

·                       Line manage Acute Response Practitioners and or other support roles within the Acute response team

·       The post holder will provide advice and support to wider members of the multi-disciplinary team.

·       To perform delegated tasks on behalf of the matron in their absence

·       To support with education for Martha’s rule in the Acute Response Team and with wider organisation

·       To ensure risk assessments are completed alongside the matron

·       To facilitate the stepdown of patients from Critical Care to ward areas.

·       To provide informal and formal education to all healthcare professionals within the Trust.

·       To proactively manage the clinical workload at night as necessary.

·       The post holder will be required to rotate between both sites that make up Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. 

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.