Band 6 Resuscitation Officer

Job summary

Due to future service expansion we are looking for motivated Resuscitation Council (UK) ALS providers who want to take their next career step as a Resuscitation Officer. These posts are part of a large scale expansion to the current clinical and operational and educational team.

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to play a key role in a team responsible for delivery of high quality resuscitation services across University Hospitals Birmingham.

The post holder will be part of the cardiac arrest and medical emergency team and will teach on resuscitation courses and participate with improvement projects and audits which will contribute to improved patient care and outcomes.

You will be a qualified nurse or paramedic or ODP with at least 3 years post registration experience of which 18 months will have been in an acute and or critical care area. You must be a Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support provider. It is desirable to hold ALS and or EPALS Instructor status but not essential hold a recognised teaching qualification and be able to fulfil the cross site travel requirements of the post. You should have good interpersonal and organisational and managerial skills and be computer literate.

Main duties of the job

You will assist in the planning and administration and delivery of training of all aspects of resuscitation including basic and advanced life support to appropriate groups across the organisation for example Advanced Life Support (ALS) Immediate Life Support (ILS) Paediatric Immediate Life Support (pILS) and European Paediatric Advanced Life Support (EPALS) courses. This will include teaching clinical staff and students, qualified and unqualified nurses, paramedic staff, other hospital personnel and various members of the community.

The post holder will assist, under the supervision of the Senior Resuscitation Officers, in providing professional advice and support in relation to resuscitation training, techniques and equipment. The duties of the post include involvement in the review and audit of hospital resuscitation procedures.

You will be expected to maintain your clinical competence by attending medical emergencies and cardiac arrests and utilise these events as teaching opportunities. You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and a drive to maintain and improve standards of clinical care through education, audit and research.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

• Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
• Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. We do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://birminghamandsolihullcovidvaccine.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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