Job summary
An exciting 8 month Fixed term/Secondment opportunity has arisen within the Resuscitation Team for a Resuscitation Officer.

The Resuscitation Officer (RO) will be responsible for the planning, organisation and delivery of both basic and advanced life support training throughout the Trust. He/she will be expected to respond to adult cardiac arrest calls, paediatric emergency calls, acting as an expert member of the team and facilitating experiential learning and team debrief. On occasion the RO will be expected to lead the cardiac arrest team.

He/she will encourage evidence-based practice Trust wide by developing and revising hospital resuscitation guidelines, procedures and training in the light of new research and audit.

Main duties of the job

• Devise appropriate methods for teaching and implementing policies, procedures, national guidelines and other important information relating to all aspects of resuscitation, including 'DNACPR'.
• Assume the role of cardiac arrest team leader, as he/she deems necessary. This will involve making decisions in highly complex and emotive clinical situations, where a wide range or treatment options exist.
• Promote the importance of resuscitation throughout the Trust through negotiation and presentation of the specialist knowledge and skills required for the resuscitation of adults and children.
• Plan, modify and implement multidisciplinary teaching programmes throughout the Trust for a wide range of clinical staff (including medical staff, nurses, midwives and professions allied to medicine.
• Support staff in the provision of ethical and patient-centred resuscitation in accordance with the Trust's Cardiac Arrest Policy.
• Institute debriefing and support to all Trust staff following emergency situations, to promote reflective practice and offer support/constructive feedback. This will involve dealing with staff (and on occasion's relatives) who have witnessed deeply distressing situations/serious incidents using and empathetic approach.

About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust values and behaviours
Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Qualifications

• Essential: Degree/diploma Registered Practitioner (NMC / HCPC)
• Essential: RN or SR Paramedic or RCCP registered or Operating Department Practitioner (HPC).
• Essential: He/she must hold a recognised teaching certificate and a current Resuscitation Council (UK) instructor's certificate.
• Essential: Advanced Life Support Instructor/Instructor candidate
• Essential: Evidence of continuing professional development
• Desirable: Certificate in Education/teaching qualification

Knowledge

• Essential: High level of commitment and passion for education and learning.
• Essential: Innovative, effective time management, presentation and IT skills
• Essential: Ability to manage own workload
• Essential: Will have a clinical background of autonomous practice and wide-ranging experience in all aspects of resuscitation, which ideally include experience of leading cardiac arrests.
• Essential: Understanding of clinical audit

Experience

• Essential: Clinical experience working in an acute area of practice. Will have at least four years experience working as a Registered Nurse, Health Council Registered Paramedic or Senior Operating Department Practitioner or RCCP registered, with ideally management experience at ward/departmental level.
• Essential: Experience of training/lecturing to multidisciplinary staff groups
• Essential: Experience dealing and resolving difficult situations

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.