Junior Resuscitation / IsSAFE Practitioner

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Junior Resuscitation / IsSAFE Practitioner to support patient care and training initiatives. This role involves working with clinical teams, delivering training, and responding to emergency situations. Candidates must have a professional clinical qualification and significant experience in acute care settings. Flexible working arrangements are considered, offering an exciting opportunity for personal and professional development.

Benefits

Flexibility in working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Professional clinical qualification needed.
• Experience in an acute care area required.
• Mentoring experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Participate in training and simulation programme delivery.
• Respond to calls for deteriorating patients and cardiac arrests.
• Support investigations related to cardiac arrests.

Skills

Interpersonal communication skills

Ability to work independently and in a team

Assessment and coordination of treatment

Teaching and assessing ability

Clinical debriefing skills

Training program planning

Team development

Education

Professional clinical qualification (RN, ODP, Paramedic)

RCUK ALS or EPALS provider Certificate

Generic Instructor Course Qualification

NLS instructor certification

Job description

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Junior Resuscitation / IsSAFE Practitioner

The closing date is 22 October 2025

We are recruiting for a Junior Resuscitation / IsSAFE 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, in the role of a Junior Resuscitation / IsSAFE Practitioner. You will work as part of the team supporting the resuscitation improvement strategy for the Trust and delivering the IsSAFE programme (In-situ Simulation Applying human Factors Evaluation) across the organisations clinical areas, helping ensure that the service is able to develop to fulfil the needs of East and North Herts NHS Teaching 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 and in-situ simulation to all clinical staff employed by the Trust and will support continued improvement in providing education across the Trust.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder 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 and in-situ simulation 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 /IsSAFE Practitioner

Support investigations into in-patient cardiac arrests and deterioration.

The post holder willrequire specialised knowledge and skills in the resuscitation of patients.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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

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 responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Professional clinical qualification. RN, ODP or Paramedic (NMC or HCPC).
• 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.
• 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

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust