Job summary
The Resuscitation Service Lead Practitioner will be responsible for ensuring a robust resuscitation service is provided Trust wide and to ensure that the service provides appropriate support clinically, educationally, and managerially. The Lead needs to ensure that the service meets any statutory and mandatory requirements in terms oftraining provision (including national, regional and Deanery requirements), governance, resource allocation and management.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that staff are supported, skilled and developed to deliver high quality care in accordance with the Trust values. This will include providing training and education for staff to address knowledge / competencydeficits in escalation and recognition of the deteriorating, arrested and major trauma patient.
Main duties of the job
- To maintain a broad, high level clinical skill set within the team to create an environment that ensures the safe reception, treatment, transfer and discharge of patients, their relatives, and carers.
- Educated to or working towards, higher level education, including advanced clinical assessment, diagnostic reasoning skills and non-medical prescribing where appropriate to professional registration.
- Assess and initiate care for critically ill patients using critical care expertise and skills to assist in prevention, identification, and proactive management of current and potential problems.
- To plan and deliver research/ evidence-based care and treatment in partnership with other health professionals; this may include prescribing medication and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
- Ensure care delivered is based on current evidence, best practice and validated research when available.
- Identify areas of potential research and / or quality improvement relating to the speciality, and assist with / lead research and quality improvement programmes.
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?o As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.o We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. o We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.Why work for us?o We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.o As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.o Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.What do we stand for?o Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.o Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.o Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- Masters level qualification in related subject- either full MSc in advanced practice subject or short course at level 7 but including relevant clinical modules.
- Qualified Autonomous Practitioner.
- Non-medical Prescribing qualification.
- Advanced Life support Instructor
- Advanced Paediatric Life support provider
- Recognised mentorship/ teaching course.
- Evidence of leadership and management development
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years clinical experience at Band 7 in Acute Care Service with extensive senior and relevant experience demonstrating the appropriate competencies for the job clinically as well as in a leadership role.
- Experience of working with senior colleagues in a range of organisations both NHS and non-NHS, in a highly politically and sensitive environment
- Familiar with aspects of the NHS agenda and national directives and strategy relating to patient safety and quality improvement.
- Provide multi-professional education and policy agenda.
- The ability to work strategically and have the vision to develop best practice within profession
- Experience of staff supervision and management in higher education, private sector or NHS
- Experience of budgetary management
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Ability to competently manage a deteriorating patient/cardiac arrest clinical event.
- Ability to lead and influence different teams within very complex and sometimes conflicting clinical and operational situations.
- Experience of working in a Resuscitation Training service/ Acute Care Team
- Experience of 'learning from events' understanding of patient safety, risk management/ governance, investigating incidents and closing the loop. E.g. Cardiac arrest review
- Ability to build excellent relationships and manage stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
- Knowledge of the NHS structures and governing bodies.
- Knowledge of the structure and organisation of the healthcare education and training
- Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex information including qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources including patient information and statistical data
- Excellent MS Office skills - MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to write strategic reports, maintain and handle large volumes of data
- Excellent leadership and motivational skills and the ability to develop a team
- Understanding of cultural diversity
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision
- Ability to work with and interact with staff at all levels, including influencing and dealing confidently with senior staff
- Ability to think strategically, laterally and analytically to solve complex issues
- Ability to travel between sites
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- Masters level qualification in related subject- either full MSc in advanced practice subject or short course at level 7 but including relevant clinical modules.
- Qualified Autonomous Practitioner.
- Non-medical Prescribing qualification.
- Advanced Life support Instructor
- Advanced Paediatric Life support provider
- Recognised mentorship/ teaching course.
- Evidence of leadership and management development
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years clinical experience at Band 7 in Acute Care Service with extensive senior and relevant experience demonstrating the appropriate competencies for the job clinically as well as in a leadership role.
- Experience of working with senior colleagues in a range of organisations both NHS and non-NHS, in a highly politically and sensitive environment
- Familiar with aspects of the NHS agenda and national directives and strategy relating to patient safety and quality improvement.
- Provide multi-professional education and policy agenda.
- The ability to work strategically and have the vision to develop best practice within profession
- Experience of staff supervision and management in higher education, private sector or NHS
- Experience of budgetary management
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Ability to competently manage a deteriorating patient/cardiac arrest clinical event.
- Ability to lead and influence different teams within very complex and sometimes conflicting clinical and operational situations.
- Experience of working in a Resuscitation Training service/ Acute Care Team
- Experience of 'learning from events' understanding of patient safety, risk management/ governance, investigating incidents and closing the loop. E.g. Cardiac arrest review
- Ability to build excellent relationships and manage stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
- Knowledge of the NHS structures and governing bodies.
- Knowledge of the structure and organisation of the healthcare education and training
- Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex information including qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources including patient information and statistical data
- Excellent MS Office skills - MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to write strategic reports, maintain and handle large volumes of data
- Excellent leadership and motivational skills and the ability to develop a team
- Understanding of cultural diversity
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision
- Ability to work with and interact with staff at all levels, including influencing and dealing confidently with senior staff
- Ability to think strategically, laterally and analytically to solve complex issues
- Ability to travel between sites
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
