Lead Resuscitation and First Aid Officer

Reporting to the Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness the post holder will develop and provide delivery of the resuscitation training programmes and the statutory First Aid training and guidance within the Trust, as well as supporting the resuscitation training officer. This will involve personal and professional development to attain the necessary skills, qualifications and experience. This post will focus primarily on delivery of training in resuscitation, first aid, anaphylaxis, and related clinical skills.

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Job Summary

Reporting to the Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness and working closely with the Trust Medical Director/Deputy Medical Director, the post holder will lead and manage resuscitation training and guidance within the Trust. This will involve the coordination of successful training strategies and the liaison with resuscitation officers in Acute Trust and other partners. The post holder will act as the deputy chair of the Trust Resuscitation Committee.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
1. Training
- Ensure a comprehensive and realistic resuscitation training and development workplan is developed and delivered in line with the mandatory training planning cycle for resuscitation and first aid training
- Plan, implement and evaluate training programmes at basic, immediate and advanced levels in accordance with Trust policies.
- Organise and lead the delivery of Resuscitation Council (UK) standard courses, ALS/ILS/BLS/PBLS and bespoke events dependent on organisational or individual needs.
- Assess the competence of staff and students performing resuscitation procedures using current Resuscitation Council (UK) assessment criteria.
- Be responsible for the training of anaphylaxis across the Trust and the Epipen (Administration of Adrenalin) Patient Group Directive (along with Chief Pharmacist)
- Plan and implement courses for role expansion in advanced resuscitation procedures as required by the Trust based on individual and organisational needs analysis.
- Integrate evidence into training practice, developing evidence-based programmes.
- Facilitate training in resuscitation by other appropriately trained staff while ensuring key trainer standards are maintained by monitoring efficacy and training records.
- Monitoring the compliance to standards of outside agencies who deliver resuscitation training within the trust.
- Ensure that accurate records of staff receiving resuscitation training are passed to the Department administrators
- Ensure regular reports are provided for the Resuscitation Committee outlining Resuscitation training activity.

1. Advice and Guidance to Service
- To act as a resource and provide advice on the management of patients during resuscitation events and provide debriefing following such events whenever required
- Investigate and support services to introduce procedures to reduce risk to service users and staff in life support incidents across the Trust.
- Participate in investigating incidents, contributing to complaints and risk management events around resuscitation events.
- Be an active member of the Resuscitation Committee.

1. Clinical audit and research
- Be responsible for the planning, deployment and action planning of the annual Trust-wide Resuscitation Audit.
- To take an active part in any research projects related to resuscitation. To disseminate relevant current research findings and changes in guidelines at both Clinical and Trust level.
- Integrate evidence into