Job summary

We are recruiting for a Band 6 Senior Staff nurse with experience following completion of their critical care course to join the Critical Care Team based at Northwick Park Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust.

The Critical Care Unit consists of a 24 bedded Intensive Care / HDU Unit. This is a unique opportunity for a qualified candidate or individual with the relevant Critical Care Nursing Course to join the expanding and developing team within Critical Care. We have an additional 12 bedded ICU/HDU at Ealing Hospital and 8 bedded Enhanced Care Unit within LNWUH and at times you will be required to support one of the other units that is not your base site.

As a Critical Care Unit we specialise in providing a high standard of medical and post-operative care for patients undergoing a variety of procedures and interventions. Emergency admissions are via our busy Accident and Emergency, one of the busiest units in the country. The majority of our admissions have multiple and diverse care requirements that necessitate advanced organ support such as respiratory, renal and cardiovascular interventions and treatments.

We work closely with the multiple specialities within the Trust including St Marks, with our Local Critical Care Network and National units.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder may be required to manage and supervise shifts in ICU on a shift basis and this could entail working on either sites. They will assist in the training and development of junior staff, nursing students and other trainees attached to the unit. The post-holder may take direct responsibility for a patient or be supervising the work of other nurses.

The band 6 nurse will support the Senior Nurse Critical Care and the Unit's Team Leaders in delivering the Trust's key performance targets in the area of critical care. Other key relationships include the ICU/ HDU multidisciplinary team (MDT), the lecturer practitioner ICU / HDU and site practitioners.

The post-holder will have supervisory, clinical and teaching responsibilities with the emphasis of the post always being to deliver the highest possible standard of care to patients. Ensures the implementation of protocols and practice guidelines within own nursing practice. Facilitating the delivery of high quality evidence based care while working in close relationship with the MDT. Will assist the PDNs and Team Leaders (TL) by acting as coach and mentor to named nurses, students or other health care workers (HCW) attached to the Unit.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.