Sister Cardiac Arrest Prevention Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

As part of a team contribute towards these areas:

Assist the implementation and review of an evidence-based policy for cardiac arrest prevention and resuscitation.

Assist with the audit program to monitor the effectiveness of the policy and improve services based upon the audit findings. Support the senior sister in any audit development in response to the clinical strategy.

Assist with the proactive identification of clinical risk and ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place to reduce risk to patients, staff and the organisation.

Where available clinically support the cardiac arrest and medical emergency team in the absence of the acute intervention team.

Provide support to wards as part of the cardiac arrest and medical emergency call follow up process.

Ensure that any unexpected deaths are reviewed in a timely manner and the cardiac arrest review process is followed. All cardiac arrests should be safeguarded within 48 working hours.

Support the mortality review group and complete mortality reviews for all cardiac arrest deaths.

Assist in the updating of the cardiac arrest prevention team emergency call database.

Provide support to ward managers and clinical teams in the follow up of cardiac arrests.

Contribute to the work of the resuscitation committee.

Act as an expert resource on cardiac arrest prevention and resuscitation issues for trust staff.

Identify and develop cardiac arrest prevention related projects by taking a lead responsibility for an aspect of cardiac arrest prevention practice.

Provide and maintain a high standard of nursing practice in accordance with the NMCs Code of Practice and Code of Professional Conduct.

Contribute to the appraisal and application of research based practice and support its implementation within the clinical area.

Support and develop junior members of the cardiac arrest prevention team.

Work a clinical shift when required.

Attend Governance meetings where ever possible and offer formal apologies if no CAP representative can attend.

Deputise for the Senior Sister when requested.

Develop and complete care group governance reports detailing any cardiac arrest review outcomes, open safeguards, audit results and quality improvement work.

Support the Lead Nurse and Senior Sister of CAP and the AI team with any quality improvement projects.

Attend RCA meetings when requested for any potential failure to rescue incident or where the incident relates to the deteriorating patient or is a potential unexpected death.

Support the ward managers in completing a timeline for any complex or multi speciality incidents where the incident is a potential failure to rescue or is a potential unexpected death.

Liaise with relevant departments and educational leads to identify cardiac arrest prevention and resuscitation training needs.

Deliver and assist with the development of effective, manageable and achievable training programmes for all levels of staff.

Assist with the provision of undergraduate education.

Deliver (in collaboration with the rest of the cardiac arrest prevention team) an extensive portfolio of cardiac arrest prevention & resuscitation training courses.

Participate in the annual training needs analysis in the planning of cardiac arrest prevention & resuscitation capacity.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Relevant experience in a critical care environment (A&E, ITU, CCU, Anaesthetics) including significant exposure to cardiac arrest prevention/resuscitation.

Desirable

• Emergency Care experience. Leadership expereince.

Special Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Previous skills and knowledge of energency care and deterioating patient.
• Excellent Clinical Skills
• Excellent communication skills able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information to patients and relatives overcoming barriers to understanding.
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Teaching skills
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing.

Desirable

• Team lead experience.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in a health related subject or significant progress towards this
• Teaching qualification (ENB 998, cert ed desirable) or significant teaching experience

Desirable

• Advanced life support provider (EPLS/APLS provider desirable)
• ALS Instructor or instructor candidate desirable
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Statutory Registration

Essential

• Registered Nurse.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust

Hollyhurst Road

Darlington

County Durham

DL3 6HX

Employer's website

https://www.cddft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)