As a Transfer Practitioner, you will play a vital role in the safe transfer of critically unwell patients. You will work closely with our Duty Consultants to provide high-quality transfer care, safeguarding the welfare and stability of patients during transfer to and from our regional and UK-wide hospitals.
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About the role
As a Band 6 Transfer Practitioner, following completion of our specialist transfer training, your role will concentrate on providing the specialised care required to transfer critically ill adults. This role will help you to develop your clinical and managerial skills by working remotely in referring centres, in partnership with the local teams alongside our experienced Duty Consultants.
Becoming a Critical Care Transfer Practitioner is a highly rewarding career choice. The variety of patients requiring assistance and the ambulance environment presents unique challenges every transfer. Retrieve triages referrals for any critical care patient requiring transfer, this will include a variety of specialities including neurosurgical, cardiology or cardiothoracics, major trauma, burns and hepatology or hepatobiliary patients to tertiary centres across the UK mainly by road and on occasion by air.
At times, the job involves autonomous work, you may complete Practitioner-led transfers of Level 2 (high dependency) and Level 1 (ward level) patients. These transfers receive remote support from the Retrieve Duty Consultant and frequently involve collaborative efforts with a doctor from the referring hospital.
Retrieve will support you to undertake advanced courses such as Advanced Life Support, university masters modules (Advanced Assessment for Clinical Practice and Managing Clinical Complexity) along with the new National Qualification in Specialty Programme for the Training of Critical Care Transfer Practitioners, which we are one of the first services in the country to offer.
Retrieve continues to strive for excellence, we have built and embedded a safe learning environment throughout the service . We encourage all our Transfer Practitioners to have a key role in clinical governance and each are actively involved in audit and research, having many of our Transfer Practitioners present their audit posters at last year’s Retrieval Conference in Glasgow.
The dedicated Retrieve Education team will support you with daily education, including hands-on training using our simulation manikins. All Transfer Practitioners support and mentor new members of the multi-professional team and demonstrate an active role in the ongoing education programmes.
In partnership with the SWCCN, the post holder will support the relationship between the Service and referring centres. Supported by the Lead Nurses and Senior Transfer Practitioner, successful applicants will be involved with service projects both internally and externally including participation in the Retrieve Roadshows.
There will be a requirement to work shifts including nights, evenings and weekends, with the occasional potential to overrun. There will be a requirement to work with highly infectious patients and therefore a necessity to comply with infection prevention and control guidance.
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