Critical Care Specialist Nurse
Reports to: Director of Nursing and Governance, with close working alignment to the Clinical Lead Nurse
Responsible for: Critical care standards, advanced clinical training, competency development, and specialist input into higher acuity packages
Location: Richmond Head Office and community and client homes
Working Pattern & Salary: £60,000–£69,000 full-time equivalent (pro rata) depending on experience and agreed working pattern. This role is typically 3 days per week with a regular and predictable working pattern, with flexibility in how days are structured. There is scope to increase time commitment over time, with remuneration adjusted on a pro-rata basis.
The role is well suited to clinicians who wish to combine this position with ongoing ICU or acute clinical practice, while maintaining a consistent commitment to the service.
Key Responsibilities
- Specialist Clinical Support for Higher Acuity Packages: Provide specialist input into the setup, stabilisation, review, and ongoing support of higher acuity packages where required. Support clinical decision making in situations that require advanced judgement and ensure that complex care is delivered safely and consistently.
- Advanced Training and Competency Development: Support the development, delivery, and review of training for clinically complex care, ensuring that content is current, evidence based, practical, and appropriate to the service. Deliver hands on training and support to nurses and care staff and ensure that staff working within more complex packages are competent and confident in practice.
- Hands On Clinical Involvement: Work directly with teams in client settings where required to support safe setup, practical delivery, troubleshooting, and reinforcement of standards. Provide direct clinical input when packages are new, unstable, higher risk, or where staff need additional support.
- Embedding Critical Care Standards in Practice: Translate critical care knowledge into care that can be delivered safely and realistically in a home environment. Ensure that complex care is not only clinically sound in theory but workable and sustainable in practice.
- Support to Care Management and Clinical Leadership: Work alongside the Clinical Lead Nurse, Clinical Manager, and Care Managers to support packages where higher acuity or complexity requires additional clinical expertise. Provide specialist input to support package planning, staff preparation, care delivery, and escalation.
- Workforce Development: Support the development of nurses and care staff through practical teaching, mentorship, feedback, and capability building. Help strengthen the clinical confidence of the wider service and ensure that more advanced care is not dependent on one individual.
- Clinical Credibility and Improvement: Maintain personal clinical competence and ensure that the organisation’s approach to more advanced care reflects current standards and good practice. Identify areas where practice or training requires strengthening and support improvement.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Registered Nurse with active NMC registration.
- Post registration qualification in critical care, or equivalent substantial adult ICU or critical care experience.
- Strong adult ICU or critical care background with substantial post qualification experience.
- Demonstrable experience supporting, teaching, or developing others in clinical practice.
- Ability to apply advanced clinical knowledge outside an acute hospital environment.
- Excellent judgement, practical teaching ability, and confidence working independently.
Desirable:
- Experience in nurse-led homecare or community-based services.
- Experience in practice education, competency assessment, or clinical training design.
- Experience supporting mobilisation or stabilisation of complex care packages in non-acute settings.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension scheme
- Cycle-to-Work scheme
- Ongoing professional development
- Flexible working options (office, field, and some home-based)
- The opportunity to work within a respected, nurse-led organisation recognised by the Spinal Injuries Association
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