Job Title: Resuscitation Officer

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week

Perm/Fixed Term: Fixed term for 12 months (Secondment opportunity for internal staff)

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Closing Date: 24th January 2025

Interview Date: 6th February 2025

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Main duties of the job

• To participate in resuscitation education service development.
• Maintain a professional attitude at all times, developing the role of the Resuscitation Officer in the best interests of the patient and profession.
• Provide specialist resuscitation advice and act as a resource, providing clinical expertise and support to all service managers and health care professionals.
• Meet requirements of the Resuscitation Council (UK) to maintain cardio-pulmonary resuscitation accredited provider/instructor status.
• Plan and deliver the teaching, assessment and evaluation of resuscitation skills teaching methods to all staff members.
• To be responsible for ensuring safe use of resuscitation equipment such as defibrillators and simulation skills equipment through training, assessment, and evaluation.
• Act as a role model actively seeking opportunities to enhance the knowledge of others in issues relating to resuscitation.
• Possess knowledge of research and audit.
• Collate information to create and format spreadsheets, databases and reports using computerised systems.
• Possess developed communication skills.
• Works collaboratively with others, appreciating the roles of other staff and agencies involved in the care of patients to ensure optimal safe patient care.
• To liaise with the emergency teams and assist with the management of deteriorating patients, ensuring resuscitation guidelines are implemented.
• Prepare for exposure to distressing and emotional circumstances.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Operationally manage all resuscitation services across the Trust.
• To provide professional advice and consultancy to the Trust on all aspects of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation including policy, risk assessment, infection control, equipment purchase and audit.
• To initiate research and implement and monitor robust audit mechanisms for cardiac arrest calls, equipment, DNACPR (ReSPECT), training needs analysis, effectiveness of clinical practice and training outcomes.
• To lead, co-ordinate and deliver appropriate cardio-pulmonary resuscitation training to all Trust staff and learners.
• Operationally manage the resuscitation skills room as a multi professional education and training resource.
• Work in collaboration with other clinical education providers to provide high quality accredited courses.
• To manage the resuscitation education budget and income generated through accredited courses.
• Provide specialist knowledge, advice and guidance on resuscitation education and related issues for all staff and managers within the Trust.
• Promote and support an active approach to resuscitation education and service development across the Trust.
• Act as the Lead for resuscitation and present reports to Resuscitation Committee, Learning Operations Group and Patient Safety Learning Collaborative Group when necessary.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• 2 years working at Band 6 or above
• Experience of managing teams in a senior position
• Relevant clinical and management experience
• Demonstrate the ability to educate both in the clinical and classroom setting
• Able to mentor and assess students and other health care staff
• Proficiency in a wide range of clinical and resuscitation skills
• Demonstrate ability to promote best practice and apply evidence-based practice
• Demonstrate excellent knowledge and safe use of healthcare equipment
• Experience with staff management, recruitment, induction, mentoring and appraisals
• IT literate with experience of word processing, database, spreadsheets and email

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to lead and motivate
• Personal and professional credibility
• Ability to work autonomously and also as part of a team
• Well-developed problem solving, critical appraisal and decision making skills
• Required to exert moderate physical effort for several short periods
• Required to exert moderate mental effort
• Possess high levels of manipulation and dexterity skills for performing resuscitation and clinical skills
• Manage conflicting views during training and be prepared to challenge healthcare professionals to ensure patients receive optimal clinical treatment
• Possess developed communication skills when conversing with healthcare professionals and for debriefing
• Ability to form positive working relationships with multi-professional colleagues
• Prepare for unpleasant working conditions when attending clinical situations
• Seen as local expert for resuscitation and act as the Trust representative where appropriate

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Enthusiastic
• Ability to achieve goals and meet deadlines

Other

Essential

• A commitment to creating inclusive and equal opportunities
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the operational needs of the service
• Able to pass occupational health clearance
• Able to maintain a professional appearance in accordance with duties
• Physically capable of performing and teaching elements of the post
• Good previous health record

Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ

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