We are recruiting for a Junior Resuscitation Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We have an exciting development opportunity to join the Resuscitation Service for a secondment period, in the role of a Junior Resuscitation Practitioner. You will work as part of the team supporting the resuscitation improvement strategy for the Trust, helping ensure that the service is able to develop to fulfil the needs of East and North Herts NHS Trust staff and maintain a safe environment for patients.

You will work across the Trust, ensuring effective and safe delivery of care for patients, particularly in partnerships with teams such as critical care outreach and sepsis team with a drive to prevent patient deterioration.

Working closely with the Non-Medical Education team and Medical Education team to deliver training to all clinical staff employed by the Trust and will support continued improvement in providing education across the Trust.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

You will work with the other team members to ensure the standardisation and development of the service, ensuring that the service is able to grow to fulfil the needs of East and North Herts NHS Trust staff.

Participate in the planning, delivery, organisation and evaluation of training programmes delivered by the department.

Manage day-to-day operation of the resuscitation service delivery with other members of the team.

Provide training for the general public in both adult and paediatric life support when required

Respond to 2222 calls for deteriorating patients and cardiac arrests, supported by Senior Resuscitation Practitioner

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• Professional clinical qualification. RN, ODP or Paramedic (NMC or HCPC).
• Relevant post basic qualification e.g. ENB 100/998/124.
• RCUK ALS or EPALS provider Certificate
• Generic Instructor Course Qualification (Resuscitation Council [UK]) or nomination of GIC instructor potential (within 4 years)
• ALS or EPALS Instructor/ Instructor candidate/Instructor potential
• Willingness to study and achieve further RCUK provider/instructor course certificates.

Desirable

• NLS instructor
• ALS instructor
• EPALS instructor
• EPALS or APLS Provider Certificate
• Competence in administration of First Line Drugs.
• ALERT Provider Certificate
• ILS instructor

Previous Experience

Essential

• Band 5 experience in Acute care area such as ED, CCU, Acute assessment or Theatres
• Experience of working in a multiprofessional clinical environment
• Mentoring

Desirable

• Mentoring experience
• Clinical teaching
• Clinical audit

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed interpersonal/communication skills
• Demonstrates the ability to work both within a team and independently
• Demonstrates the ability to rapidly assess, interpret and co-ordinate the initiation of treatment
• Proven teaching and assessing ability
• Ability to provide constructive clinical debriefing to members of staff post cardiac arrest and other critical events

Desirable

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Ability to plan and co-ordinate a comprehensive training program for all levels of staff
• Ability to lead and facilitate the development of a team and its members
• Presentation skills

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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