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.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust., 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.

If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year.
We encourage applicants to receive the Covid-19 vaccination but this will not be a condition of deployment with the organisation. We will be asking applicants to share their vaccination status as part of our normal pre employment screening but this will not affect their employment status with the Trust.