Job Summary
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, maintain accuracy whilst meeting deadlines, and deal 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.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1.1 Where possible, respond to a variety of 2222 calls throughout the Organisation as an active member of the team providing direct clinical patient care such as but not exclusive to, the administration of medications, obtaining intravascular or intraosseous access, performing chest compressions or providing supportive ventilation in emergency situations as required.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
2.1 Assist with the development, updating and implementation of Organisational resuscitation policies and procedures.
2.2 Assist with the investigation process of Datixs in relation to resuscitation.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
3.0 Maintain own resuscitation instructor statuses in accordance with the recommendations of the Resuscitation Council (UK).
3.1 Assist with the organisation of resuscitation training for all levels of mandatory training ensuring there is adequate and sufficient availability for all that must attend.
3.2 Develop own resuscitation instructors statuses to facilitate the delivery of resuscitation courses provided by the resuscitation team.
3.3 Assist with the delivery of resuscitation training to all staff within the Organisation at a level appropriate to their role ensuring appropriate and regulated content is delivered as required.
3.4 Provide Organisational resuscitation policy and procedure references within facilitated training.
3.5 Ensure training records are forwarded to the Training and Education team in a timely manner following training to ensure attendance and compliance is accurately recorded.
3.6 Ensure all training equipment is well maintained and effective for use during training.
3.7 Contribute to the development of the resuscitation training portfolio and assist with the delivery of such courses.
3.8 Contribute towards income generation processes within the resuscitation team by providing resuscitation training for external NHS and Private sector staff at venues internally and externally to Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospitals.
3.9 Support in situ simulation practices, providing specialist resuscitation advice/guidance as required.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
4.1 Have an awareness of effective and efficient use of the department budget.
4.2 Inform the Senior Resuscitation Officer regarding equipment and consumables which require ordering.
4.3 Correspond with Procurement regarding the receipt of purchased goods in accordance with the Organisational Finance Framework as required.
4.4 Correspond with Finance regarding payments from external agencies/candidates and escalate any queries or complaints to the Senior Resuscitation Officer.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
5.1 Contribute to the collection/presentation of data for research and audit purposes relevant to resuscitation.
5.2 Ensure all National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) data is collected, inputted and reviewed in a timely and thorough manner.
5.3 Maintain regular overview of the resuscitation compliance using the MyKitCheck (MKC) software and respond appropriately and promptly as issues arise, escalating to the Senior Resuscitation Officer as necessary.
5.4 Highlight any possible research/audit developments for consideration to the Senior Resuscitation Officer/Resuscitation Operational Group.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* 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
Desirable
* 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 Essential
* Appropriate experience working within an acute healthcare setting with exposure to emergency situations
* Excellent understanding of current resuscitation guidelines, recommendations and procedures
Desirable
* Experience of Audits
* Evidence of Leadership/Management
Skills & Abilities Essential
* 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
Desirable
* Has excellent understanding of Trust Policies/Procedures pertaining to resuscitation
* Experience of service improvement and implementation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Southport
Town Lane Kew
Southport
PR8 6PN
Employer's website
https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ #J-18808-Ljbffr