Job summary
Fixed term contract/secondment opportunity until 3rd April 2025
This post offers a wonderful opportunity, for the successful candidate, to join the Recognise and Respond team; supporting the philosophy of multi-skilling and integration into the Critical Care Complex. Providing a high quality 24/7 service.
The Recognise and Respond Team is fast paced and diverse; The team comprises of four arms; Rapid Response, Education and Quality Improvement, Resuscitation and Critical Care Anaesthetic Practitioners. The successful candidates will work as part of the Critical Care Anesthetic Practitioner Team, responding to and supporting acute airway management of patients in Critical Care and the wards. They will also be fully involved in the team's education and quality improvement projects, working to improve standards of care 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 through cardiac arrest response and education. 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.
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated and dedicated professionals with skills and knowledge in emergency, acute or critical care. The successful applicants will demonstrate their experience in delivering high standards of patient care within the Critical Care Complex or acute patient areas. Working primarily with the Critical Care Doctors but also providing high levels of support to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Supporting ward teams and critical care in the detection, management and treatment of acute airway management
- High risk patient transfers
- Trust wide education on topics related to acute airway management.
- Quality improvement work on projects related to deteriorating patients.
Shift work covering 24hours a day, 7 days a week.
About us
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide clinical and managerial leadership and support to the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in relation to Level 1, Level 2 and level 3 patients across the Trust.
- Assist with audit and quality assurance procedures to optimise the assessment of care of Level 2 and Level 3 patients throughout the Trust.
- Raise awareness of issues relating to the safe and effective delivery of care to Level 2 and Level 3 patients.
- Establish and maintain professional networking relationships between Recognise and Respond Team, the Critical Care Complex and the Trust.
- Optimise collaborative working between the Recognise and Respond Team, Critical Care Complex, Emergency Department, and ward teams to optimise monitoring, treatment and care of patients.
- Assist in the analysis and interpretation of complex clinical, political and resource issues regarding the Trusts delivery of care to Level 2 and Level 3 patients; in order to most effectively deliver short and long term aims for the service.
- Assist in the implementation of strategies and policies to support patients with critical illness within Critical Care Complex, Emergency Department, admission areas and in-patient wards, working across directorates and promoting collaborative team working.
- Utilise highly developed interpersonal, communication and diplomacy skills to effectively reduce barriers to understanding and motivate groups of staff to accept change and achieve goals set.
- To respond to patients with airway distress across the trust. Assess, plan and implement care in line with Trust policy and procedures.
- Use enhanced clinical skills to provide advanced support to medical staff in the performance of specialist procedures e.g. arterial and central vein cannulation, tracheal intubation.
- To use enhanced clinical skills to ensure timely treatment to all Critically ill patients in their care. Maintaining competence in: invasive blood pressure monitoring cannulation, peripheral venous cannulation and ECGs.
- Assist with or perform, emergency procedures associated with critically ill patients, such as acute drug administration, arterial and venous access, bronchoscopy, intubation, tracheostomy, intubation and endotracheal tube changes,
- Respond to the emergency bleep, as part of the trust wide resuscitation team, attending all airway and emergency calls within the Critical Care Complex and wider Trust, support nursing and medical teams, across the trust in the review of patients with compromised Supporting cardiac arrest situations where required.
- Assist in the identification of educational needs of the MDT in relation to care of Critically ill and 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide clinical and managerial leadership and support to the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in relation to Level 1, Level 2 and level 3 patients across the Trust.
- Assist with audit and quality assurance procedures to optimise the assessment of care of Level 2 and Level 3 patients throughout the Trust.
- Raise awareness of issues relating to the safe and effective delivery of care to Level 2 and Level 3 patients.
- Establish and maintain professional networking relationships between Recognise and Respond Team, the Critical Care Complex and the Trust.
- Optimise collaborative working between the Recognise and Respond Team, Critical Care Complex, Emergency Department, and ward teams to optimise monitoring, treatment and care of patients.
- Assist in the analysis and interpretation of complex clinical, political and resource issues regarding the Trusts delivery of care to Level 2 and Level 3 patients; in order to most effectively deliver short and long term aims for the service.
- Assist in the implementation of strategies and policies to support patients with critical illness within Critical Care Complex, Emergency Department, admission areas and in-patient wards, working across directorates and promoting collaborative team working.
- Utilise highly developed interpersonal, communication and diplomacy skills to effectively reduce barriers to understanding and motivate groups of staff to accept change and achieve goals set.
- To respond to patients with airway distress across the trust. Assess, plan and implement care in line with Trust policy and procedures.
- Use enhanced clinical skills to provide advanced support to medical staff in the performance of specialist procedures e.g. arterial and central vein cannulation, tracheal intubation.
- To use enhanced clinical skills to ensure timely treatment to all Critically ill patients in their care. Maintaining competence in: invasive blood pressure monitoring cannulation, peripheral venous cannulation and ECGs.
- Assist with or perform, emergency procedures associated with critically ill patients, such as acute drug administration, arterial and venous access, bronchoscopy, intubation, tracheostomy, intubation and endotracheal tube changes,
- Respond to the emergency bleep, as part of the trust wide resuscitation team, attending all airway and emergency calls within the Critical Care Complex and wider Trust, support nursing and medical teams, across the trust in the review of patients with compromised Supporting cardiac arrest situations where required.
- Assist in the identification of educational needs of the MDT in relation to care of Critically ill and 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
- Registered Nurse or AHP with appropriate registration
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-registration experience including some experience in a position relevant to the speciality
Skills
Essential
- Able to perform clinical skills relevant to the speciality
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Be able to demonstrate teaching performance
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or AHP with appropriate registration
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-registration experience including some experience in a position relevant to the speciality
Skills
Essential
- Able to perform clinical skills relevant to the speciality
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Be able to demonstrate teaching performance
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
