Band 8a Deteriorating Patient, Resuscitation and End of Life Lead

Job summary

Are you a dynamic, energetic, and enthusiastic Registered Nurse, Physician Associate or AHP with an interest in the physical deteriorating patient, resuscitation, and end of life ?

Are you looking for a new opportunity?

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust is a mental health trust looking to recruit a practitioner who is passionate about managing physical deterioration and medical emergencies within our mental health services.

This is a new role and a new service to the trust. Although this is a full-time role, we are willing to look at flexible working or job share.

Main duties of the job

The candidate must be a confident visible leader with the skills to develop the deteriorating patient strategy and the ability to provide appropriate clinical direction for the Trust.

We are looking for someone with excellent clinical skills and experience in all areas related to the deteriorating patient and end of life, (including medical emergencies and resuscitation), you will be required to lead in the improvement of our end-of-life services for our service users.

The candidate must have strong communication and negotiating skills which will include formal, informal and ad-hoc clinical development, to support our teams deliver appropriate emergency interventions. These need to be fit for all the individual areas.

The successful candidate will work alongside our physical health support teams, our learning and development departments, our external resuscitation providers, our senior medical and nursing leadership, and individual wards or units to provide excellent clinical care to our vulnerable service users.

This role will require the skills to report to the resuscitation committee and the physical health committee.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.