Job Description

Are you a passionate and enthusiastic healthcare professional registrant (e.g HCPC/NMC) with a commitment to preventing patient deterioration and improving patient outcomes? Join our dynamic team as a Band 6 Resuscitation Officer, where you will play a critical role in ensuring excellence in resuscitation practices across our healthcare organisation.



This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your teaching, leadership, and clinical skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.



We are continually striving to enhance the Resuscitation Service with a focus on patient safety, detection and prevention of deterioration. This direction for the Resuscitation Service requires, motivation, flexibility and initiative in this role, and requires the ability to prioritise workload, and maintain accuracy whilst meeting deadlines and deal with changing priorities.



This will be a competency-based interview, and applicants will be required to complete assessment tasks as part of this process.



In this exciting and challenging role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality resuscitation training and education to multidisciplinary teams, empowering them to provide effective and timely emergency care.



As a key member of the resuscitation team, you will participate in audits, provide advice on advanced life support techniques, and assist with clinical debriefs following resuscitation events. You will also contribute to maintaining an effective resuscitation service by ensuring that equipment and protocols are up-to-date and readily accessible.



Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.



We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care



Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.



Primary Care



Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.



Community Services



Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.



Specialist Regional Services



We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme



CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES



Where possible, respond to a variety of 2222 calls throughout the Organisation as an active member of the team providing direct clinical patient care such as but not exclusive to, the administration of medications, obtaining intravascular or intraosseous access, performing chest compressions or providing supportive ventilation in emergency situations as required.



ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES



Assist with the development, updating and implementation of Organisational resuscitation policies and procedures

Assist with the investigation process of Datixs in relation to resuscitation



TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES



Maintain own resuscitation instructor statuses in accordance with the recommendations of the Resuscitation Council (UK)

Assist with the organisation of resuscitation training for all levels of mandatory training ensuring there is adequate and sufficient availability for all that must attend

Develop own resuscitation instructors statuses to facilitate the delivery of resuscitation courses provided by the resuscitation team

Assist with the delivery of resuscitation training to all staff within the Organisation at a level appropriate to their role ensuring appropriate and regulated content is delivered as required

Provide Organisational resuscitation policy and procedure references within facilitated training

Ensure training records are forwarded to the Training and Education team in a timely manner following training to ensure attendance and compliance is accurately recorded

Ensure all training equipment is well maintained and effective for use during training

Contribute to the development of the resuscitation training portfolio and assist with the delivery of such courses

Contribute towards income generation processes within the resuscitation team by providing resuscitation training for external NHS and Private sector staff at venues internally and externally to Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospitals

Support in situ simulation practices, providing specialist resuscitation advice/guidance as required



FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES



Have an awareness of effective and efficient use of the department budget

Inform the Senior Resuscitation Officer regarding equipment and consumables which require ordering

Correspond with Procurement regarding the receipt of purchased goods in accordance with the Organisational Finance Framework as required

Correspond with Finance regarding payments from external agencies/candidates and escalate any queries or complaints to the Senior Resuscitation Officer



RESEARCH & AUDIT



Contribute to the collection/presentation of data for research and audit purposes relevant to resuscitation

Ensure all National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) data is collected, inputted and reviewed in a timely and thorough manner

Maintain regular overview of the resuscitation compliance using the MyKitCheck (MKC) software and respond appropriately and promptly as issues arise, escalating to the Senior Resuscitation Officer as necessary

Highlight any possible research/audit developments for consideration to the Senior Resuscitation Officer/Resuscitation Operational Group