Critical Care Outreach Nurse

Job overview

The Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT) offers intensive care skills to patients with, or at risk of, critical illness in areas outside of the critical care unit. We are about to provide a 24 hour, 7 day a week service reviewing patients throughout the hospital. Consequently you will be expected to work both days and nights shifts. The team consists of Band 6 nurses with a band 7 team leader and the Lead Nurse for Critical Care Outreach.

We respond to all patients reaching trigger thresholds for NEWS2 scoring in line with national guidance, attend cardiac arrests and medical emergencies as part of the MET and arrest team, and review all patients stepped down from ICU/HDU to the wards.

Our goal is to improve patient outcomes through early recognition and response to deterioration, reduce length of stay, avoid adverse events such as cardiac arrest, and prevent admission / readmission to critical care.

Main duties of the job

As part of the CCOT you will be responsible for providing high quality nursing support and care to all acutely unwell adult patients within Wirral University Teaching Hospital. You will:

• Be responsible for the management of a caseload of critically ill patients in the ward environment.
• Assist with Martha's Rule rollout and implementation  • Work in collaboration with medical and allied health professionals to provide safe, equitable and high quality care for all acutely unwell, critically ill and recovering patients on a 24-hour shift basis across the Trust. • Review all patients stepped down from the ICU/HDU in a timely fashion to ensure they are progressing and prevent readmission • Work towards achieving the enhanced level of national critical care outreach competencies (2022) • Attend adult cardiac arrest and medical emergency calls, utilising Advanced Life Support skills where necessary. • Provide support with patients with tracheostomies and those receiving High Flow oxygen therapy on cohort wards. • Recognise and respond appropriately to incidences of sepsis in line with national guidance • Participate in the delivery of local training courses including AIM (Acute Illness Management) • Other duties as shown in the full job description and person specification

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Critical Care Outreach Nurse position available at WUTH.