Advanced SMART Team Nurse - Band 7
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
The Advanced SMART Team Nurse will be a clinically experienced nurse proficient in caring for critically ill and deteriorating patients within the surgical and medical acute response team. This role involves reviewing and assessing patients, triaging calls, and forming part of the cardiac arrest team. The nurse will provide clinical and managerial leadership, including hospital at night cover and bed management, working a 24/7 rotating shift pattern.
Essential criteria
- RN qualification
- ILS
- Willingness to undertake ALS
- MSc or working towards
Desirable criteria
- Critical care post graduate course
- ALS
- advanced clinical assessment and diagnostics level 7
- v300 independent nurse prescriber
- Knowledge & Experience
- significant and specialist post registration experience in treating patients with acute conditions/critically ill/deteriorating
- Extensive knowledge and managerial experience
- excellent communication skills including ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an appropriate manner in challenging situations
- advanced decision making
- ability to manage complex and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within the organisation
- Critical care experience or experienced with level one care
- Critical care experience level 2 or 3
- bed management experience
- Experience and knowledge in caring for neuroscience patients
- Skills and Attributes
- Advanced effective leadership skills
- teaching and assessing skills
- evidence of applying current research to practice
- expert venepuncture /cannulation
- experience managing patients with tracheostomies
- Can demonstrate that they are able to perform accurate history taking, clinical assessment and suggest appropriate diagnostic tests.
- can work as autonomous practitioner or as part of team
- proven oral and written communication skills
- IT competent
- ability to manage difficult situations and prioritise workload accordingly
- ability to adapt to NHS and trust service developments and new nursing theories for use in the clinical area
- Use and knowledge of PGD's
- Extensive experience of working as a collaborate in an MDT environment
- Highly motivated individual willing to learn and develop the service and support others in doing so.
- Extensive knowledge and managerial experience
- Act as a mentor and participate in education and training
- v300 independent nurse prescriber
- ultra sound skills for venepuncture and line placement
- demonstrates commitment through involvement in trust wide initiatives/committees
- Ability to perform advanced clinical procedures
- Experience in the post-operative recovery process for discharge of patients from POCU
- ability to adapt to changing needs of the service
- to be able to lead and drive change
- to be able to mentor and nurture individuals
- assertive / enthusiastic / committed to service
- motivated and able to motivate others approachable / caring
- flexible adaptable and confident
- Other
- ability to work long days, weekends and nights
- be prepared to work flexibly across a range of shift patterns across the trust to meet needs of service
- RN qualification
- ILS
- Willingness to undertake ALS
- MSc or working towards
- Critical care post graduate course
- ALS
- advanced clinical assessment and diagnostics level 7
- v300 independent nurse prescriber
- Knowledge & Experience
- significant and specialist post registration experience in treating patients with acute conditions/critically ill/deteriorating
- Extensive knowledge and managerial experience
- excellent communication skills including ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an appropriate manner in challenging situations
- advanced decision making
- ability to manage complex and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within the organisation
- Critical care experience or experienced with level one care
- Critical care experience level 2 or 3
- bed management experience
- Experience and knowledge in caring for neuroscience patients
- Skills and Attributes
- Advanced effective leadership skills
- teaching and assessing skills
- evidence of applying current research to practice
- expert venepuncture /cannulation
- experience managing patients with tracheostomies
- Can demonstrate that they are able to perform accurate history taking, clinical assessment and suggest appropriate diagnostic tests.
- can work as autonomous practitioner or as part of team
- proven oral and written communication skills
- IT competent
- ability to manage difficult situation
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced SMART Team Nurse - Band 7
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
SMART stands for surgical and medical acute response team. The SMART nurse will work within the existing team and be a clinically credible nurse who is proficient and experienced in looking after the critically ill and deteriorating patient. They will have a thorough understanding of what track, trigger, respond and escalate entails within the scope of the deteriorating patient. They will also form part of the cardiac arrest team and become an ALS provider.On a daily basis the SMART nurse will review known patients and assess new patients in a time appropriate manner who are considered at risk by the MDT who express a clinical concern or those patients who trigger via the use of NEWS2.The SMART nurse will receive and triage calls through the bleep system carrying out tasks within own scope of practice where possible. The band 7 role will be pivitol in providing safe care in hospital at night and will become the unit bleep holder and assist in bed management overnight. They will provide both clinical and managerial leadership and support the rest of the team. The role covers a 24hour service 7 days a week by rotating onto days and nights and the willingness to be flexible is essential to ensure the service can be delivered.
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