Critical Care Outreach Nurse / Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established Critical Care Outreach Team delivering a 24/7 service across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospitals. The role involves providing patient-focused care to acutely ill, deteriorating, and critically ill patients, requiring excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. The successful candidate will work autonomously and as part of a team, focusing on early recognition of deterioration, facilitating smooth transitions of care, and contributing to multidisciplinary education.
Essential criteria
- Good general education
- Registered Nurse (Level 1)/ AHP or ODP
- ILS provide
- Critical care/acute experience
- Able to care for critical care patients outside of ICU
- Experience of teaching students, unqualified and qualified staff
- Skills and Abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work required shift pattern and special circumstances
- Computer literate
- Ability to work in a team and autonomously
- Special Circumstances
Desirable criteria
- Ability to travel to other sites
- Education
- Good general education
- Registered Nurse (Level 1)/ AHP or ODP
- ILS provide
- Critical care/acute experience
- Able to care for critical care patients outside of ICU
- Experience of teaching students, unqualified and qualified staff
- Skills and Abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work required shift pattern and special circumstances
- Computer literate
- Ability to work in a team and autonomously
- Special Circumstances
- Ability to travel to other sites
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 13d
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Critical Care Outreach Nurse / Practitioner
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established and highly respected Critical Care Outreach Team. The team delivers a 24/7 service across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospitals at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust.
We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative and critical care practitioner to deliver patient-focused care to acutely ill, deteriorating and critically ill patients across the trust. The successful candidate will need to display excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, be able to respond to rapidly changing, high pressure situations and priorities. You will be able to work autonomously and as part of a team and have good critical thinking and decision making skills. You will be instrumental in the early recognition of deterioration and deliver an effective response, liaising with the patient's own team. You will be able to facilitate smooth transitions of care for patients stepping down from Intensive and High Dependency Care to the general wards and be involved in the provision of a range of education for the multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
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