Staff Nurse - Critical Care (Band 5)

The Critical Care Team offers intensive care skills to complex level 2 and 3 patients in a newly built, state of the art critical care unit. Band 7, 6 and 5 nurses work closely within a multidisciplinary team to provide effective high quality, individualised and safe care to a wide range of critically ill patients.
The Critical care unit is a 7 bedded intensive care unit that can flex our bed base to accommodate the needs of our patients.
Nurses monitor patients for changes in their condition, provide specialist treatments and attend to the patient's personal needs in collaboration with specialist clinicians, healthcare support workers, physiotherapists and other allied healthcare professionals.
Working alongside our specialist Clinical Educators there is a wide range of training provided and lots of opportunity for professional and personal development. This includes completing national critical care steps competencies, the critical care course and ongoing clinical skills courses.

Work in collaboration with medical and allied health professionals to provide safe, equitable and high quality care for critically ill and recovering patients on a 24-hour shift basis.

Assess, plan, implement and assist with the evaluation of individual programmes of care for the critically ill patient.

Learn new skills in order to provide complex clinical interventions for level 2 and 3 patients, such as mechanical ventilation, hemofiltration, high flow oxygen and CPAP.

Undertake advanced clinical skills following appropriate training including arterial blood gas sampling, continuous physiological observation monitoring and IV drug administration via Central venous access.

Offer advice and support to the patient's families and friends responding to their individual needs.

Contribute towards the development of clinical practice by participating in practice, and self development programmes on the unit.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.