Critical Care Specialist Nurse

Are you a passionate and experienced nurse looking to take the next step in your career? Join Paragon Home Healthcare, a nurse-led, award-winning provider of complex homecare, and help shape the standards of care that truly change lives.

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.

About Us

Paragon Home Healthcare is a nurse led leading provider of comprehensive home care services, uniquely specialised for individuals with spinal cord injuries and those requiring complex care. Our commitment to exceptional care is deeply embedded in our approach and is endorsed by the Spinal Injuries Association as their trusted provider. We focus on enhancing accessibility and community integration, offering clients tailored support that empowers them to live fulfilling and independent lives.

The Role

The Critical Care Specialist Nurse provides expert, hands-on clinical support for complex, high-acuity care packages within a community setting, ensuring delivery aligns with current critical care standards and best practice. This flexible specialist role focuses on strengthening safe service delivery and growth by contributing advanced clinical expertise to package setup, staff training, competency development, stabilisation, and escalation support. Working directly alongside care teams and within client environments, the postholder actively supports practice, ensuring staff are both confident and competent in real-world settings. The role also plays a key part in maintaining clinically credible, up-to-date training, translating critical care standards effectively into home and community care contexts.

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

The Critical Care Specialist Nurse role would suit someone who is clinically credible, practically minded, calm under pressure, and confident enough to work alongside others and challenge care constructively when required. The successful candidate needs to be able to teach well, build trust quickly, and adapt critical care knowledge to real world environments without becoming overly theoretical. Additionally, the candidate should be comfortable being hands on, travelling to client settings, and supporting teams directly.

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

At Paragon, we care for our staff as much as we care for our clients. You’ll enjoy:

• 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

About Paragon Home Healthcare

We are proud to be the trusted homecare provider for individuals with spinal cord injuries and complex needs, recognised for delivering safe, compassionate, and person-centred care.

At Paragon, our mission is simple — to help people live independently and with dignity in their own homes.

Would you like to find out more before applying?

If you'd like to have an informal discussion regarding the role ahead of applying, feel free to reach out to our Director of Nursing, Anita Osborn, to arrange a chat (anita.osborn@paragonhh.co.uk).

We look forward to hearing from you!