Job summary
Employer heading
Resuscitation Training Officer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Resuscitation Officer (HCPC or NMC registered) to join a team of existing resuscitation officers providing clinical and education support across all specialities in acute and community settings. This exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professional to join our busy and dynamic Resuscitation Team. We provide high quality deteriorating patient and resuscitation training and education to all the staff across the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for planning, organising and delivery of resuscitation services and training, in basic and immediate life support in adults and paediatrics as appropriate to the staff of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Immediate Life support/Paediatric Life support provider
The post also includes deteriorating patient education and the post holder will support ongoing deteriorating patient education.
To maintain high standards of delivery of resuscitation provision through audit and ensure an accurate resuscitation database is maintained.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In conjunction with the lead resuscitation officer, and the resuscitation committee the resuscitation officer will develop aspects of the resuscitation service supporting the Lead resuscitation officer to provide a comprehensive service to the trust.
To lead and participate in delivering training programmes in resuscitation practices to clinical practitioners in conjunction with the lead resuscitation officer.
There may be a requirement to be a clinical member of the resuscitation team and whilst attending clinical emergency calls across the Trust, providing expertise to the team and where necessary lead the team to ensure the best evidenced based care and outcome to the patient.
Deliver simulation and practical procedure-based training events in the simulation suite or in situ using electronic simulation manikins.
Possession of excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Presentation skills for education and training
IT skills
Ability to work across professional boundaries.
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC/HCPC (AHP) registered practitioner
- Immediate Life support/Paediatric Life support provider
- Post basic study to Diploma, or Degree level
- Qualification in teaching, learning and assessing in clinical practice and trained clinical supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Generic Instructor course
- Advanced Life Support Provider
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sheila Pelton
- Job title
- Resuscitation Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 293 4214
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