Job overview

Outreach Practitioner – Rapid Response Team (Band 6/7 Depending on Experience)
Part-Time – 15 Hours Per Week
Location: Frimley Park Site

The Rapid Response Team at Frimley Park Hospital is seeking a highly skilled and clinically motivated Outreach Practitioner to join their team.

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.
• Collaborate with the multi-professional team to ensure high-quality patient care.
• Demonstrate strong clinical judgment and decision-making skills in acute situations.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Extensive 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.
• Excellent communication skills, fostering effective team collaboration and patient care.

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 a part-time 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.

Working for our organisation

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 three core 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.