Job summary
Band 5 Resuscitation Co-ordinator / Trainer
Central and North West London NHS Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Resuscitation Team in a brand new role as the resuscitation coordinator and manage the clerical services of the resuscitation Team. In addition, the role will include delivering basic life support training for part of the week. The position will be based in Central London. This is a full time, permanent position.
Main duties of the job
The Resuscitation Training Team provide timely education, training and advice on resuscitation and recognition and management of patient deterioration to both clinicians and non-clinicians throughout the Trust. We are looking for a motivated person who can work flexibly either alone or as part of a team. The role will include coordinating RCUK ILS courses, managing the team clerical services and teaching emergency life support and basic life support at our training venues in London and Milton Keynes. It may from time to time include undertaking audits and delivering simulations within wards and services across the Trust.
About us
The post holder should have some experience of working within health care, ideally within the NHS and some experience of teaching. The applicant should be IT literate and have a high level of administrative skills. The role will require you to work with a wide range of professionals and respond to a various challenge that arise. The successful applicant will be based in Central London but must be willing travel across London and Milton Keynes where the services and training are delivered.
Job description
Job responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Tasks
- Provide confidential administrative support to the Nurse consultant deteriorating patient and clinical skills , Resuscitation manager and Resuscitation Officers as required. This will include minute taking for Resuscitation Committee meetings, typing of confidential reports and letters, policies and procedures, the organisation of different meeting groups and maintenance of an effective filing system and audit data, maintenance of spreadsheets.
- To be responsible for and manage the coordination of the administration support for all external accredited Resuscitation Courses, liaising with Course Directors and other governing bodies.
- Coordinate training dates, staff training diaries and locations for all Resus courses
- Coordinate Resuscitation faculty- internal staff who support ILS training within the trust
- Maintain personnel files for all Resuscitation Service staff. (Including faculty)
- Take a pro-active role in meetings, functions, service and symposiums
- Contribute to the efficient working of the team by identifying new ways of working which will benefit the overall efficiency of Resuscitation Services
- To ensure an appropriate, effective and timely system for stock control, including stock and non-stock items in conjunction with resus team requirements.
- Able to sustain concentration on complex tasks despite frequent interruptions.
- Provide and receive information effectively when dealing with telephone calls and enquires, ensuring these calls are prioritised and recorded accordingly liaising with the Resuscitation team as necessary
- Responsible for the setting up and maintenance of electronic and manual filing and databases to assist in the smooth running of the Resuscitation Service liaising with Trust training department ensuring relevant information passed on.
- Assisting with the design and production of leaflets and other publicity to promote the Resuscitation Service both across the Trust and Nationally.
- To ensure equipment is kept up to date on spreadsheets and aware of its current position.
- To assist in the deteriorating patient audits and data collection as required by the critical care outreach team.
- To lead on the pilot of tendable, as a mechanism of daily Resus equipment checking for wards and teams, if successful lead on the roll out across the trust
- Development and ownership of a Resus and deteriorating patient action log including incident tracking, and relevant data management
Training Responsibilities
- To lead on the roll out of the new Basic life support system of training for administrators
- Liaison with a wide range of departments within the Trust including Consultant level and outside organisations including National External Governing bodies to ensure the smooth administration of training courses
- Responsible for processing invoices, raising cheques, collection of external course fees and maintaining details of income and expenditure. Producing individual course budget sheets thereby ensuring cost effectiveness of courses
- Responsible for coming up with methods for promoting resuscitation training within the trust: coming up with communications, reaching out to site managers/matrons/lead nurses to spread awareness of the need for resuscitation training and improve attendance.
Further Responsibilities
- The trust is currently in the process of adapting its resuscitation policy in order to adjust to a greater emphasis on resuscitation training and adapting our resuscitation auditing system. The holder of this post should be able to think proactively in order to find efficiencies and streamline the process, and come up with innovative ideas to consistently improve processes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Tasks
- Provide confidential administrative support to the Nurse consultant deteriorating patient and clinical skills , Resuscitation manager and Resuscitation Officers as required. This will include minute taking for Resuscitation Committee meetings, typing of confidential reports and letters, policies and procedures, the organisation of different meeting groups and maintenance of an effective filing system and audit data, maintenance of spreadsheets.
- To be responsible for and manage the coordination of the administration support for all external accredited Resuscitation Courses, liaising with Course Directors and other governing bodies.
- Coordinate training dates, staff training diaries and locations for all Resus courses
- Coordinate Resuscitation faculty- internal staff who support ILS training within the trust
- Maintain personnel files for all Resuscitation Service staff. (Including faculty)
- Take a pro-active role in meetings, functions, service and symposiums
- Contribute to the efficient working of the team by identifying new ways of working which will benefit the overall efficiency of Resuscitation Services
- To ensure an appropriate, effective and timely system for stock control, including stock and non-stock items in conjunction with resus team requirements.
- Able to sustain concentration on complex tasks despite frequent interruptions.
- Provide and receive information effectively when dealing with telephone calls and enquires, ensuring these calls are prioritised and recorded accordingly liaising with the Resuscitation team as necessary
- Responsible for the setting up and maintenance of electronic and manual filing and databases to assist in the smooth running of the Resuscitation Service liaising with Trust training department ensuring relevant information passed on.
- Assisting with the design and production of leaflets and other publicity to promote the Resuscitation Service both across the Trust and Nationally.
- To ensure equipment is kept up to date on spreadsheets and aware of its current position.
- To assist in the deteriorating patient audits and data collection as required by the critical care outreach team.
- To lead on the pilot of tendable, as a mechanism of daily Resus equipment checking for wards and teams, if successful lead on the roll out across the trust
- Development and ownership of a Resus and deteriorating patient action log including incident tracking, and relevant data management
Training Responsibilities
- To lead on the roll out of the new Basic life support system of training for administrators
- Liaison with a wide range of departments within the Trust including Consultant level and outside organisations including National External Governing bodies to ensure the smooth administration of training courses
- Responsible for processing invoices, raising cheques, collection of external course fees and maintaining details of income and expenditure. Producing individual course budget sheets thereby ensuring cost effectiveness of courses
- Responsible for coming up with methods for promoting resuscitation training within the trust: coming up with communications, reaching out to site managers/matrons/lead nurses to spread awareness of the need for resuscitation training and improve attendance.
Further Responsibilities
- The trust is currently in the process of adapting its resuscitation policy in order to adjust to a greater emphasis on resuscitation training and adapting our resuscitation auditing system. The holder of this post should be able to think proactively in order to find efficiencies and streamline the process, and come up with innovative ideas to consistently improve processes.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- GCSE English Language and Maths Grade C or above (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Teaching qualification
- IBLS
Experience
Essential
- Administrative experience
- Working with Microsoft Office especially Word, Excel, PPT and teams
- Understanding of Data Protection Act
- A high level of administrative skills
Desirable
- Experience of working in a clinical setting in the NHS
- Training
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- GCSE English Language and Maths Grade C or above (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Teaching qualification
- IBLS
Experience
Essential
- Administrative experience
- Working with Microsoft Office especially Word, Excel, PPT and teams
- Understanding of Data Protection Act
- A high level of administrative skills
Desirable
- Experience of working in a clinical setting in the NHS
- Training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
