Resuscitation Officer

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Resuscitation Service for a full-time band 6 Resuscitation Officer based at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. (Northwick Park, Ealing, and Central Middlesex Hospitals)

The successful applicant will be either a NMC registered nurse or HCPC registered operating department/ paramedic, with appropriate post-registration experience.

Experience in an acute or critical care environment is essential as well as demonstrable experience in either adult or paediatric resuscitation. A substantial proportion of the resuscitation officer role will be delivery of life support training sessions to all grades of trust staff, and you will, therefore, need to have proven teaching/assessing skills and must hold either an adult or paediatric advanced or immediate life support provider certificate or ideally progressed to an instructor candidate.

As well as providing resuscitation training sessions, the post-holder will be expected - when possible - to attend adult and paediatric cardiac and other emergency arrest calls as a specialist member of the resuscitation team.

This is a developmental post and consideration will be given to candidates who are not ILS/PILS or ALS/EPALS instructors but would be expected to achieve ILS/PILS instructor within twelve months and ALS/EPALS within 24 months.

The post-holder is expected to work cross site within the Trust.

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Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

(Under the guidance of the Lead Resuscitation Officer / Resuscitation Service Manager and in conjunction with all members of the resuscitation service)

Education and Training

1. To assist in ensuring that all members of the cardiac arrest team and all necessary holders of the resuscitation pagers are trained and competent in the current resuscitation protocols, including the operation of relevant equipment.
2. To ensure that relevant medical and nursing staff in the Trust are competent in either basic and/or immediate life support as appropriate.
3. To deliver basic life support training to Trust staff as part of their bi-annual mandatory training. The training will be delivered in a classroom environment utilising workshop and skills training techniques.
4. To assist in the monitoring and evaluation of the current resuscitation training programme and assist in the adaptation and implementation of changes to that programme to meet service needs.
5. To work in conjunction with the clinical training and education department in maintaining and updating of computerised, confidential records of all medical, nursing, paramedical and ancillary staff trained in resuscitation skills and to provide regular audit reports on these records produced on the Trusts

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.