Resuscitation Officer

Job summary

Working Full time : hours per week

We are looking for an experienced health care professional to join our team of tutors working in a busy Education and Training Centre. You need the ability to work well in a small team and possess strong self-motivation.

Our core working days are between 8-5 Monday to Friday, with occasional evenings to support nationally accredited courses.

Evidence and experience of teaching is desirable, and wide knowledge of clinical procedures and emergency techniques are essential.

Your duties would involve teaching to all grades and roles of staff, participating on the trusts mandatory training programme and both the Nursing and Medical education programmes. In addition to these duties include audit, service development, and supporting the Trust Cardiac Arrest team via emergency bleep response.

Main duties of the job

1. To offer both classroom and clinical area training session in Resuscitation, Clinical Skills and Simulation to multidisciplinary teams and groups. Helping ensure the provision of quality education and training planned to achieve the departments targets and KPI's.

2. To assist the departmental manager in developing, provide and evaluate a wide range of Resuscitation, Clinical Skills and Simulation training programmes. Offered to the multidisciplinary team including medical and dental staff, nursing and allied health professionals.

3. To take named responsibility for coordination of national courses and training programmes, in order to train Trust staff and external candidates, delegated by the departmental manager.

4. To provide training courses for external NHS and private sector staff to support the departmental income generation target.

5. To assist the implementation of medium/high fidelity training programmes utilising the department's simulation suite. Facilitating feedback sessions to offer personal and group debrief.

6. To support specialist departments across the organisation such as Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Theatres and Obstetrics in delivery of their Resuscitation and Clinical Skills training packages.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds. Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Either Adult or Paediatric Advanced Life Support qualification from RC(UK) or ALSG Registered Health Care Professional with associated Academic Qualification Demonstrable record of working at Degree Level

Desirable

Advanced Life Support / Advanced Paediatric Life Support Instructor (IC/IP Acceptable) Recognised Teaching Qualification or demonstrable experience of offering clinical education

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Evidence of Advanced Life Support knowledge and experience in clinical practice Knowledge of healthcare education programmes

Desirable

Experience of course organisation, coordinating educational events Experience of medium/high fidelity simulation training and feedback techniques

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