Job overview

CCOT Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse

Band 7 - Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Our Critical Care Outreach Team nurses perform a crucial role in the hospital, supporting sick patients who have recently left our intensive care unit, and responding to those at risk of being admitted to it.

Working across all areas of the Trust, team members use their advanced critical care nursing skills to respond when needed.  If a patient is at risk of deterioration, the team are on-hand to provide their advanced nursing skills and knowledge to ensure that they get the best care we can offer.

This post needs nurses with the passion and ability to make independent clinical decisions at crucial moments and draw on all of their knowledge, skills and experience as a critical care nurse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our nurses provide assessment, observation and treatment for deteriorating patients and also support and train colleagues across the Trust, to help them develop their own skills in this field.

The role would suit nurses who currently work in either intensive or critical care settings or accident and emergency departments, who are looking for a new challenge and a change of pace in their working lives.

In return, we offer an impressive support and education package as well as all of the advantages you’d expect from working in a friendly, forward-looking cohesive  and highly skilled team.

Could you be a Nurse in our CCOT in Croydon?

If so, we'd love to hear from you…

Main duties of the job

• The nurses within the Critical Care Outreach Team/CCOT are senior, experienced practitioners, with expertise in the field of critical care nursing.
• Team members will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy in the implementation of emergency and critical care skills  as required.
• The CCOT possess decision making skills that satisfy the demands and expectations of the role whilst augmenting and strengthening the nursing contribution to compassionate patient care and delivery.
• This organisation has acknowledged the unique skills that CCOT offer and moreover, its role in fostering acute care capability through education and linking care pathways within critical and acute care settings on a 24/7 basis.
• The role will also involve the incorporation and implementation of Call for Concern, (Martha's Rule),  which is a major patient safety initiative providing patients and families with a way to seek an urgent review if their or their loved one's condition deteriorates and they are concerned this is not being responded to.

The post holder will provide caring intervention with appropriate assessment, observation and treatment for the deteriorating patient and those at risk of deteriorating on the wards:

• Prior to admission to the critical care unit
• During transfer to the critical care unit
• Following discharge from the critical care unit
• On the ward area but whose needs in specific areas require support &  demand 

Working for our organisation

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.

Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.

If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that’s making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you’re looking for.