Critical Care Outreach Nurse – ITU

Location: The Wellington Hospital, St John’s Wood, London

Salary: Competitive + ITU Bonus + Benefits (pension, health cover, flexible benefits, and excellent career development opportunities)

Shift times: 8:00am – 8:30pm and 8:00pm – 8:30am

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Pattern: Mixture of nights and weekends, with flexibility required to work across seven days

About the role

Why Join Us? At The Wellington Hospital, we’re proud to deliver world-class care in one of London’s leading private hospitals. We’re now looking for an experienced and passionate Outreach Nurse to join our Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT) – a dedicated team that plays a vital role in safeguarding patient wellbeing across the hospital.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver a nurse-led Outreach Service 24/7, providing expert support to patients who are acutely unwell or deteriorating.
• Hospital-based role: Monitor patients transferred from ITU to wards, identify deterioration, and advise if patients need to return to ITU.
• Work alongside ward teams to educate, mentor, and optimise patient care.
• Be a key member of the hospital resuscitation team, responding to peri/cardiac arrests and major haemorrhage events.
• Support the safe transfer of patients from lower acuity wards to HDU or ITU.

What We’re Looking For

• Registered General Nurse with a valid NMC pin
• Completion of a Critical Care Course (60 credits)
• At least 2 years experience working in a Critical Care Outreach team is essential for this role
• Demonstrable experience in ward-based patient assessment, early deterioration recognition, and outreach response

Why HCA UK?

• Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers.
• In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities.
• We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
• Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
• Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
• Group Life Assurance from day one
• Critical illness cover
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
• Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
• Discounts with over 800 major retailers

Culture and values

• Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
• Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
• Honesty, integrity and fairness: We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
• Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity

Reasonable adjustments

• We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities.
• As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.