The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Critical Care Outreach Practitioner
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About the Outreach Team
The Outreach team is a 24-hour nurse-led service that supports care delivery to deteriorating patients across the Trust.
The Outreach team is available 24/7 for advice, support, and guidance on the management, planning, and treatment options for deteriorating patients in the ward and assessment areas.
The team serves as a complementary support system, working with the parental nursing and medical teams to provide guidance and support.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical assessment, management and monitoring of patients with critical illness and facilitate essential treatments when needed.
- Work as a member of the Critical Care Outreach team to provide high-quality, individualised care for critically ill patients, developing opportunities to manage defined caseloads of patients with the support of the Lead Nurse.
- Provide specialist advice, support, teaching and training to the ward staff and members of the multi-disciplinary team regarding the management of patients with critical illness, sharing critical care skills and knowledge.
- Facilitate staff in delivering patient-centred care that is clinically effective, proactive and dynamic in the identification and management of critically ill patients throughout the organisation.
- Embrace and promote interagency multidisciplinary working through joint action plans, protocols and pathways to support quality improvements in service delivery.
- Contribute to the strategic development of patient and healthcare services.
- Provide professional and managerial leadership individually and within the team.
- Deputise for the Lead Nurse as appropriate.
- Participate in clinical Governance and risk management strategies.
- Able to work flexibly to cover 24/7 outreach service including weekends and night duty.
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About The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH)
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
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At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mafalda Oliveira
- Job title: Lead Nurse for Critical Care and Outreach
- Email address: mafalda.oliveira@qehkl.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07974089902
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