Job summary
- Main area
- Resuscitation
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 199-NN-6861564-FM-MT-Y
- Employer
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CUH
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- Band 6 applicants - opportunity to develop into the Band 7 role
- Closing
- 02/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/02/2025
Employer heading
Resuscitation Officer
Band 7
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
Job overview
Resuscitation Officer
Full Time, Permanent
The Resuscitation Officer will be responsible for the planning, organisation and delivery of both basic and advanced support training throughout the Trust. The post holder will be expected to respond to adult cardiac arrest calls, paediatric and neonatal emergency calls, acting as an expert member of the team and facilitating experiential learning and team debrief.
The postholder will encourage evidence-based practice Trust wide by developing and revising hospital resuscitation guidelines, procedures and training in the light of new research and audit.
Proposed Interview Date - 19th February 2025
Main duties of the job
Develop robust educational systems to ensure all members of the cardiac arrest teams
Assist with the design the design and delivery of basic and advanced life support training programmes in Adult, Paediatric and Newborn Resuscitation
Ensure staff have access to both internal and external accredited resuscitation courses
Working for our organisation
GENERAL
1. To work in accordance with the Trust’s Values to consistently demonstrate the behaviours required.
2. To ensure that Croydon Health Services Trust’s policies and procedures are adhered to.
3. To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times
4. To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information
5. To work in accordance with the Trust’s policies to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote
equality and diversity in the workplace.
6. To adhere to the Trust Infection Control Policy, procedures and guidelines
7. All clinical staff hold responsibility for ensuring they have sound knowledge of standard infection
8. To comply with the Trust’s Safe Guarding Children and Vulnerable Adults policies,
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
a. Will have a clinical background of autonomous practice and wide-ranging experience in
all aspects of resuscitation, including experience of leading cardiac arrests.
b. Will have significant experience working as a Band 6 or above, as a Registered Nurse,
HPC Registered Paramedic or HPC Registered ODP, ideally with management
experience at ward/departmental level. The postholder must hold a recognised
teaching qualification and a current Resuscitation Council (UK) ALS Instructor’s
certificate.
c. Will have in-depth, highly specialised clinical knowledge that can be applied across a
range of clinical areas.
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d. Will have demonstrated the ability to work on their own and as a part of a close knit
team in emotionally and intellectually stressful circumstances.
e. Will have the skills, knowledge and experience to provide detailed advice to clinicians
across a wide range of specialties and will maintain and further develop their clinical
skills by proactively working clinical shifts.
f. Will be fully computer literate with a high level of IT skills.
g. Will maintain professional registration, Resuscitation Council (UK) instructor status
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Appropriate management experience
Assessment of resuscitation
Essential criteria
- Suitable experience (Qualified R/O)
- Lead a resuscitation to a level of R/O
Desirable criteria
- ALS Instructor
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrew Hartley
- Job title
- Head of Resuscitation,Simulation & Clinical Skills
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0204013493
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