Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse, Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT) at NHNN

Job overview

The Critical Care Outreach Team at NHNN, affiliated with the Patient Emergency Response and Resuscitation Team (PERRT) within the wider UCLH Trust, is a multi-disciplinary team of experienced critical care practitioners that assist in the care of patients who are acutely unwell or who are deteriorating.

This is achieved by supporting, educating and working with ward staff and the multidisciplinary team; optimising the quality and appropriateness of critically ill patients' treatment, care and experience.

The team also provides a trust-wide resuscitation service providing a clinical response to cardiac arrest calls and deteriorating patients, contributing to the delivery of specialised resuscitation training and risk management to a variety of acute and specialist hospitals sites in the centre of London.

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In conjunction with the band 7s and 8a in NHNN CCOT (and PERRT), the Deputy Charge Nurse / Sister will assist in the development of the NHNN CCOT (and PERRT) service and patient safety by: 

•    Provision of an expert critical care nursing response to deteriorating and at-risk patients.
•    Supporting patients who step down from Critical Care to the wards.
•    Support of initiatives to improve recognition and response to deteriorating and at-risk patients.
•    Assistance in the delivery of training programmes in emergency response and resuscitation practices to clinical staff of all grades and specialities.
•    Responding as a clinical member of the emergency response / resuscitation teams and whilst attending clinical emergency calls across the Trust, providing expertise to the cardiac arrest team to ensure evidenced based practice is provided.
•    Ensuring all clinical areas have access to resuscitation equipment (appropriate to area) and consumables across the Trust.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.  
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:  

•    University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)  
•    National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery  
•    Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital  
•    Eastman Dental Hospital  
•    Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine  
•    University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre  
•    The Hospital for Tropical Diseases  
•    University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street  

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.  

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040