Registered Nurse - Critical Care

Job summary

We are recruiting for Registered Nurses who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We have 20 beds within Critical Care, offering you the opportunity to gain valuable experience in caring for critically ill adults within an innovative, challenging, and aspirational workplace.

We are committed to advancing nursing practice and our Clinical Nurse Educator provides in-house training and support for clinical and professional development.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will manage the ventilated, haemofiltered, and cardiovascularly compromised patient initially under supervision, whilst developing professionally, utilising competency based Knowledge & Skills Framework (KSF) leading to autonomy of care when proficient, in conjunction with further development of management skills.

You will provide support to Nurse Team Leaders and Managers in the training and development of less senior staff.

The post holder will demonstrate proficiency in the management of acutely unwell and deteriorating patients who are nursed outside the critical care setting, i.e. the Recovery and Emergency Department.

You will be fully informed about changes in Critical Care Outreach and update professional knowledge to meet the requirements for revalidation.

You will also manage and deliver patient care to the highest standard utilising a holistic research-based model and including patient and relative involvement.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information packfor further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• RGN
• Willingness to complete Diploma/ Degree in Critical Care Nursing.

Desirable

• Post basic course ENB 124/ 100 / 920
• Evidence of continuing education

Previous Experience

Desirable

• Ward experience within an acute environment
• Critical Care experience
• Critical Care shift leadership
• Mentorship training
• Awareness of resource management

Skills

Essential

• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good standard of clinical care
• Able to work well in a team
• Knowledge of current developments in pre and post registration nursing
• Awareness of current issues in Nursing /NHS

Knowledge

Desirable

• Demonstrable teaching skills
• Ability to contribute to practice changes arising from audits
• Current developments in Critical Care Nursing

Other Requirements

Essential

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Keen to participate in unit projects
• Ability to adapt to changing situations and workloads
• Flexible
• IT & computer skills
• Role model our Trust values every day

Desirable

• Awareness of risk management