Sepsis Clinical Nurse Specialist - Critical Care Outreach

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Sepsis Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Are you interested in Sepsis and reducing mortality?

Do you have excellent communication and acute care skills? If so-

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 6 Sepsis nurse to work within our busy sepsis team. We aim to ensure the best care for patients with sepsis across the Trust.

This role is crucial in developing a Trust wide culture of delivering excellent care to patients with sepsis to achieve maximum survival andimproved patient experience. This role includes multidisciplinary working with our Trust Critical Care Outreach team, Resuscitation team, Acute Kidney Injury team, as well as other specialist nurses.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The sepsis team proactively monitor patients for deterioration, screen for sepsis and be confident to intervene and commence treatment with the sepsis six when indicated.

The successful candidate will have a determined attitude and willingness to drive quality improvement using data collection, audit, and clinical input.

Education and teaching experience is desirable as a proportion of the role is to educate staff at the bedside and within the classroom to promote best sepsis education for our nursing and medical colleagues.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & 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; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

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

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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