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Clinical Support Nurse for Hospital at Night (Critical Care Outreach)

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 April 2025

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Job summary

Work as a Registered Nurse as part of the Hospital at Night Team, providing a comprehensive range of clinical skills to patients at night. Assessing and identifying patients clinically at risk through NEWS 2 scoring and staff concerns, initiating treatment plans when required.

You will be working at night as part of a small team of enthusiastic, motivated, and supportive registered nurses who have well established collaborations with the ICU team.

Supporting patients and health care professionals when patients are at risk of or deteriorating in the acute setting. Initiating early recognition and treatment plans to improve patient outcomes. Following up patients discharged from the Intensive Care Unit. Contribution to clinical education around the deteriorating patient.

Refer and liaise with medical colleagues as necessary to ensure safe patient care. Supporting patients and health care professionals to manage deteriorating/at risk patients.

Main duties of the job

  • Assess and initiate treatment for deteriorating/at risk adults and children. Refer/escalate as required
  • Supporting nursing and medical teams with clinical advice and education
  • Supporting the management of Optiflow and CPAP for Covid patients
  • Supporting the management of BiPAP
  • Attend cardiac arrest calls
  • Assist with transfers of critically unwell patients
  • Clinical skills, for example, catheterisation, cannulation, phlebotomy, arterial blood gases
  • Verification of death

About us

Working at night. Part of a small team of enthusiastic, motivated, and supportive registered nurses.

Well established collaborations with the ICU team.

Why Work With Us.

Please see the above leaflet for working at South Devon and Torbay Healthcare NHS Trust in the lovely area of South Devon.

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

388-6906814-NMC-A

Job locations

Torbay Hospital

Lowes Bridge

Torquay

TQ27AA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

#caretojoinus

Job description

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

#caretojoinus

Person Specification

Essential and desirable as below

Essential

  • Nursing degree
  • Minimum 3 years post qualification experience
  • Recent experience in an acute area at senior level
  • able to perform CPR
  • Able to work in a covid area
  • Understanding and utilising ECG monitoring

Desirable

  • Advanced Life support or equivalent
  • ILS/PILS
  • SOS course or equivalent
  • Teaching qualification
  • Non medical prescribing
  • Advanced clinical practitioner
  • Comprehensive understanding of the critical care outreach initiative
  • experience of formal and informal teaching
  • Management of a level 3 patient
  • Able to manage patients receiving Optiflow, CPAP, BiPAP
  • Understanding and utilisation of invasive monitoring techniques
  • Recent experience in HDU/CCU/ED/ICU
Person Specification

Essential and desirable as below

Essential

  • Nursing degree
  • Minimum 3 years post qualification experience
  • Recent experience in an acute area at senior level
  • able to perform CPR
  • Able to work in a covid area
  • Understanding and utilising ECG monitoring

Desirable

  • Advanced Life support or equivalent
  • ILS/PILS
  • SOS course or equivalent
  • Teaching qualification
  • Non medical prescribing
  • Advanced clinical practitioner
  • Comprehensive understanding of the critical care outreach initiative
  • experience of formal and informal teaching
  • Management of a level 3 patient
  • Able to manage patients receiving Optiflow, CPAP, BiPAP
  • Understanding and utilisation of invasive monitoring techniques
  • Recent experience in HDU/CCU/ED/ICU

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Torbay Hospital

Lowes Bridge

Torquay

TQ27AA


Employer's website

https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Torbay Hospital

Lowes Bridge

Torquay

TQ27AA


Employer's website

https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Lead nurse critical care outreach/Sr ICU

Michaela O'Sullivan

michaela.osullivan@nhs.net

01803655195

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

388-6906814-NMC-A

Job locations

Torbay Hospital

Lowes Bridge

Torquay

TQ27AA


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