Resuscitation & Clinical Simulation Educational Facilitator Band 6

Job summary

We are looking for a registered professional, adult or paediatric nurse, allied health professional, or midwife looking to work as a member of our Resuscitation and Clinical Simulation Services Team. You must have current experience working in an acute hospital setting and have evidence of recent clinical experience with acutely unwell patients/deteriorating patients on a frequent and regular basis.

You'll need to have specialist knowledge across resuscitation, simulation-based education and human factors, acquired through training or experience. The role requires you to be a Resuscitation Council UK Adult Immediate Life Support, and/or Paediatric Immediate Life Support course instructor. Advanced Life Support (ALS) instructor status or evidence that you are working towards ALS instructor status is required.

The successful applicant will join us in making a positive impact on patient care and supporting our multi-disciplinary colleagues through delivering and developing resuscitation operational services, simulation and resuscitation training to meet national and local standards. You will also be involved in patient safety improvements and initiatives and clinical audit program's across the different Trust sites. You must be an enthusiastic teacher and prepared to work in a small dynamic team.

Main duties of the job

Attending and following up 2222 calls ensuring that best practice guidelines have been followed and supporting junior members of the team who attend these calls. Delivering on intermediate level, nationally accredited and governed resuscitation courses, such as Immediate Life Support ,Paediatric Immediate Life Support and Advanced Life Support, Ensuring quality standards are achieved, having difficult conversations when standards have not been met and creating action plans to rectify this.

You will deliver resuscitation and deteriorating patient education to all staff at the Trust, across all Trust sites. To do this you will utilise simulation-based education to develop both the skills of resuscitation and human factor non-technical skills. This will include and is not limited to; adult, paediatric and newborn basic life support , automated external defibrillation, urgent treatment of patients in adversity (UTOPIA) and respiratory UTOPIA,

Developing project plans and lead the implementation, delivery and evaluation of key programmes of work, tailoring programmes to suit multi-professional staffing groups, ensuring they are delivered within agreed timescales. Delivering presentations, analysing and summarising resuscitation audit data and best practice guidelines, in an accessible and understandable format. Supporting the Resuscitation Operational Lead and carrying out line management duties for junior members of the team.

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.