Resuscitation Officer

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Sefton is seeking a Band 6 Resuscitation Officer. Responsibilities include delivering resuscitation training, participating in audits, and maintaining resuscitation protocols. Applicants must have HCPC/NMC registration and demonstrate strong leadership and clinical skills. This role is a great opportunity to develop professionally with a commitment to improving patient outcomes.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts

27 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Must have HCPC/NMC registration.
• Strong commitment to patient safety and education.
• Experience in delivering training to healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality resuscitation training to teams.
• Participate in audits and provide advice on advanced life support.
• Maintain and update resuscitation policies and equipment.

Skills

Teaching skills

Leadership skills

Clinical skills

Education

HCPC/NMC registration

Job description

Overview

Are you a passionate and enthusiastic healthcare professional registrant (e.g HCPC/NMC) with a commitment to preventing patient deterioration and improving patient outcomes? Join our dynamic team as a Band 6 Resuscitation Officer, where you will play a critical role in ensuring excellence in resuscitation practices across our healthcare organisation.

This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your teaching, leadership, and clinical skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

We are continually striving to enhance the Resuscitation Service with a focus on patient safety, detection and prevention of deterioration. This direction for the Resuscitation Service requires motivation, flexibility and initiative in this role, and requires the ability to prioritise workload, and maintain accuracy whilst meeting deadlines and deal with changing priorities.

This will be a competency-based interview, and applicants will be required to complete assessment tasks as part of this process.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality resuscitation training and education to multidisciplinary teams, empowering them to provide effective and timely emergency care.
• Participate in audits, provide advice on advanced life support techniques, and assist with clinical debriefs following resuscitation events.
• Contribute to maintaining an effective resuscitation service by ensuring that equipment and protocols are up-to-date and readily accessible.
• Where possible, respond to a variety of 2222 calls throughout the Organisation as an active member of the team providing direct clinical patient care (e.g., administration of medications, obtaining intravascular or intraosseous access, performing chest compressions or providing supportive ventilation in emergency situations as required).

Administrative Responsibilities

• Assist with the development, updating and implementation of organisational resuscitation policies and procedures.
• Assist with the investigation process of Datixs in relation to resuscitation.

Teaching & Training Responsibilities

• Maintain own resuscitation instructor statuses in accordance with the recommendations of the Resuscitation Council (UK).
• Assist with the organisation of resuscitation training for all levels of mandatory training ensuring there is adequate and sufficient availability for all that must attend.
• Develop own resuscitation instructors statuses to facilitate the delivery of resuscitation courses provided by the resuscitation team.
• Assist with the delivery of resuscitation training to all staff within the Organisation at a level appropriate to their role ensuring appropriate and regulated content is delivered as required.
• Provide organisational resuscitation policy and procedure references within facilitated training.
• Ensure training records are forwarded to the Training and Education team in a timely manner following training to ensure attendance and compliance is accurately recorded.
• Ensure all training equipment is well maintained and effective for use during training.
• Contribute to the development of the resuscitation training portfolio and assist with the delivery of such courses.
• Contribute towards income generation processes within the resuscitation team by providing resuscitation training for external NHS and Private sector staff at venues internally and externally to Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospitals.
• Support in situ simulation practices, providing specialist resuscitation advice/guidance as required.

Financial Responsibilities

• Have an awareness of effective and efficient use of the department budget.
• Inform the Senior Resuscitation Officer regarding equipment and consumables which require ordering.
• Correspond with Procurement regarding the receipt of purchased goods in accordance with the Organisational Finance Framework as required.
• Correspond with Finance regarding payments from external agencies/candidates and escalate any queries or complaints to the Senior Resuscitation Officer.

Research & Audit

• Contribute to the collection/presentation of data for research and audit purposes relevant to resuscitation.
• Ensure all National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) data is collected, inputted and reviewed in a timely and thorough manner.
• Maintain regular overview of the resuscitation compliance using the MyKitCheck (MKC) software and respond appropriately and promptly as issues arise, escalating to the Senior Resuscitation Officer as necessary.
• Highlight any possible research/audit developments for consideration to the Senior Resuscitation Officer/Resuscitation Operational Group.

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people\'s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [email protected]

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click here to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.

eVisa Update

For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK. Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account. Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to: + Create a UKVI account + Link their current passport + Access their eVisa straightaway to check all details. Incorrect information should be reported as soon as possible using the following link: https://www.gov.uk/report-error-evisa + Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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. Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that: All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment; There is no limit on the number of requests they can make; Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason. At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here. An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents. Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:
Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
+ Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
+ Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
+ National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme