Job summary
Outreach Practitioner - Rapid Response Team Band 6 secondmentFull-Time - 37.5 Hours Per WeekLocation: Wexham Park Site
The Rapid Response Team at Frimley Park Hospital is seeking a highly skilled and clinically motivated Outreach Practitioner to join their team on an 11 month secondment to cover maternity leave.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical support for patients experiencing or at risk of clinical deterioration, life-threatening events, or cardiac arrest.
- Respond promptly to medical emergencies, ensuring timely intervention and management.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of deteriorating patient care protocols and resuscitation policies.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Experience in managing medical emergencies and deteriorating patients.
- Proficiency in resuscitation procedures and emergency response.
- Ability to develop and implement clinical policies related to patient deterioration and cardiac arrest management.
Team & Environment:
- Join a committed and passionate multi-professional team dedicated to delivering excellence across the trust.
- Work within a fast-paced environment requiring quick thinking, clinical expertise, and a collaborative approach.
This role is ideal for a motivated practitioner with a strong background in acute and emergency care, seeking an opportunity to make a significant impact on patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Main duties of the job
This is a clinically focused and educational role at Frimley Health.
The post holder will support the Band 7 in the day-to-day provision of the Critical care Outreach services across Frimley Health.
This is a clinically orientated role that will require the post holder to work weekends, evenings and night shifts as required for service delivery.
Working within the Rapid Response Team providing nursing intervention with appropriate assessment and management of the deteriorating patient and those at risk of deteriorating in Frimley Health.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Performs comprehensive patient assessment based on history taking and physical assessment of acutely ill adult patients.
Work flexibly within the multi-disciplinary team to deliver a high quality of care to the deteriorating patient..
Independently manages patient caseload and prioritises referrals.
Utilise and Promote the Trust Track and trigger system (NEWS2) and the Deteriorating patient (Adult) policy amongst all clinical staff.
Respond to cardiac arrest and other emergency calls, actively contributing to patient management and acting as team leader as required.
Accurately documents all interventions within the patients notes and maintains correct record record keeping for audit and educational purposes.
Demonstrates clinical competence and confidence in using highly developed specialist knowledge, equipment and skills in a variety of clinical settings.
To work alongside all clinical staff in assisting with their ongoing education and developing their skills and confidence in recognising and responding to acute illness.
Work closely with the critical care directorate to ensure that admission to a critical care bed occurs promptly for patients whom this is appropriate.
Enable discharges from the critical care unit by supporting ward staff and the MDT to ensure the continuing recovery of these patients in ward areas.
Please see full job description for further details
Job description
Job responsibilities
Performs comprehensive patient assessment based on history taking and physical assessment of acutely ill adult patients.
Work flexibly within the multi-disciplinary team to deliver a high quality of care to the deteriorating patient..
Independently manages patient caseload and prioritises referrals.
Utilise and Promote the Trust Track and trigger system (NEWS2) and the Deteriorating patient (Adult) policy amongst all clinical staff.
Respond to cardiac arrest and other emergency calls, actively contributing to patient management and acting as team leader as required.
Accurately documents all interventions within the patients notes and maintains correct record record keeping for audit and educational purposes.
Demonstrates clinical competence and confidence in using highly developed specialist knowledge, equipment and skills in a variety of clinical settings.
To work alongside all clinical staff in assisting with their ongoing education and developing their skills and confidence in recognising and responding to acute illness.
Work closely with the critical care directorate to ensure that admission to a critical care bed occurs promptly for patients whom this is appropriate.
Enable discharges from the critical care unit by supporting ward staff and the MDT to ensure the continuing recovery of these patients in ward areas.
Please see full job description for further details
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in relevant subject
- Post registration qualification in critical care/acute care
- ILS provider
- Teaching& assessing/mentorship qualification
- RN adult nurse
Desirable
- ILS instructor or working towards
- ALS Provider
- PILS provider
specific role competencies
Essential
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations and work under pressure
- Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines.
- Effectively communicate with all levels of the organisation
Desirable
- Experience of working within a critical care outreach team
Specialist experience
Essential
- Experience in managing deteriorating patients
- ability to assess, plan and implement care with minimal supervision
Desirable
- physical assessment course or willingness to undertake
- willingness to undertake non medical prescribing course
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in relevant subject
- Post registration qualification in critical care/acute care
- ILS provider
- Teaching& assessing/mentorship qualification
- RN adult nurse
Desirable
- ILS instructor or working towards
- ALS Provider
- PILS provider
specific role competencies
Essential
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations and work under pressure
- Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines.
- Effectively communicate with all levels of the organisation
Desirable
- Experience of working within a critical care outreach team
Specialist experience
Essential
- Experience in managing deteriorating patients
- ability to assess, plan and implement care with minimal supervision
Desirable
- physical assessment course or willingness to undertake
- willingness to undertake non medical prescribing course
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).
