Resuscitation Officer

The resuscitation team at London North West University Healthcare is expanding its well-established service and is therefore hoping to recruit an enthusiastic, innovative and highly motivated healthcare professional to join our team.

You must have a suitable professional clinical qualification (e.g., Registered General Nurse, Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Paramedic) and be registered with a professional body. Applicants will need at least three years clinical experience including the delivery of teaching clinical skills to range of healthcare professionals and will need to hold ILS provider or PILS provider status. Previous experience in resuscitation training would be advantageous. The position offers the opportunity to develop high-quality teaching skills in resuscitation to all members of the multidisciplinary team. Participation as an active member of the adult and paediatric cardiac arrest team is expected. The posts will be based at Northwick Park Hospital and/or Ealing Hospital but will also require travel to Central Middlesex Hospital and community sites on a frequent basis. You will be working within a friendly and supportive team who are committed to your professional development and the development of the resuscitation service.
Main

**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

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUH) is one of the integrated NHS Trusts in the country. Our team of more than 8,000 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of approximately one million people providing hospital services to the people of Brent, Harrow and beyond.

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.

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LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation; we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.