Main area: Resuscitation Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
26.5 hours per week (Spread over 3 and 4 day a week working pattern)
Job ref: 409-6863939
Employer: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Southport
Town: Southport
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 28/02/2025
NHS AfC: Band 6
Are you a passionate and enthusiastic healthcare professional registrant (e.g HCPC/NMC) with a commitment to saving lives and improving patient outcomes? Join our dynamic team as a Band 6 Resuscitation Officer, where you'll play a critical role in ensuring excellence in resuscitation practices across our healthcare organisation.
This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your teaching, leadership, and clinical skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
We are continually striving to enhance the Resuscitation Service with a focus on patient safety, detection and prevention of deterioration. This direction for the Resuscitation Service requires motivation, flexibility, and initiative in this role, and requires the ability to prioritise workload, and maintain accuracy whilst meeting deadlines and dealing with changing priorities.
This will be a competency-based interview, and applicants will be required to complete assessment tasks as part of this process.
Main duties of the job
In this exciting and challenging role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality resuscitation training and education to multidisciplinary teams, empowering them to provide effective and timely emergency care.
As a key member of the resuscitation team, you will participate in audits, provide advice on advanced life support techniques, and assist with clinical debriefs following resuscitation events. You will also contribute to maintaining an effective resuscitation service by ensuring that equipment and protocols are up-to-date and readily accessible.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Healthcare Professional (e.g HCPC/NMC)
* Educated to Degree Level (or working towards)
* Relevant Post-Graduate Teaching Qualification (or relevant teaching experience)
* Evidence of engagement with continuous professional development
* Willingness to undertake relevant training for the role
* Immediate Life Support Instructor
* Advanced Life Support Provider
* Paediatric Immediate Life Support Instructor
* Advanced Life Support Instructor Potential/Instructor Candidate/Instructor
* European Advanced Paediatric Provider/Instructor Potential/Instructor Candidate/Instructor
Knowledge & Experience
* Appropriate experience working within an acute healthcare setting with exposure to emergency situations
* Excellent understanding of current resuscitation guidelines, recommendations, and procedures
* Experience of Audits
* Evidence of Leadership/Management
Skills & Abilities
* Is reliable, honest, and trustworthy
* Evidence of excellent written and oral communication skills
* Ability to organise, manage and prioritise own workload effectively ensuring deadlines are met
* Ability to work as part of a successful team
* Has clear, concise and confident presentation and teaching skills
* Ability to perform/teach a wide range of clinical skills during resuscitation attempts
* IT literate
* Has excellent understanding of Trust Policies/Procedures pertaining to resuscitation
* Experience of service improvement and implementation
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. You are part of an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring.
If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [emailprotected]
The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager.
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:
· All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
· There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.
The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action.
You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated.
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