Band 5 Associate Resuscitation Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham

University Hospitals Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Job summary:

Primarily the role is concerned with delivering training in the deteriorating patient, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillation (AED) to all grades of staff across all specialties.

In addition the post holder will have responsibilities, in quality assurance, clinical and training equipment provision and maintenance.

Main duties, tasks & skills required:

The Resuscitation Service are looking for a highly motivated individual with recent clinical experience, to join our friendly and dynamic team.

We wish to recruit someone who has a passion for teaching and has a keen interest in resuscitation, patient safety and quality improvement projects.

The successful applicant will be visible to support the resuscitation service, across UHB (Hospitals include: Good Hope, Heartlands, Solihull and the Queen Elizabeth) and occasionally within the community services.

The role will mainly involve teaching and assessing clinical staff at Clinical Life Support level during trust induction and annual updates.

There will be developmental opportunity for the successful applicant to achieve their Immediate Life Support (ILS) provider qualification and support to progress to Resuscitation Council (UK) ILS instructor; If successful at achieving instructor potential nomination.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to have an informal visit prior to interview.

For the full roles and responsibilities please refer to the Job Description attached to this advert.

For further information please contact Lead Resuscitation Officer, Michelle Hall on

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;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.

This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work.

This is more than words. We are taking action.

Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO.

We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description:

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification:
Qualifications:

Essential:

Registered Health Care Practitioner e.g Registered Nurse, Midwife, ODP, Paramedic.

Experience:

Essential:

Previous / recent experience of working in an acute NHS care setting (e.g ED, AMU, CCU)
Competent in Basic level Life Support (BLS) and use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
Ability to participate with the implementation of change, assist with and improving standards.

Desirable:

Involvement in audit
Incident reporting and investigations
Teaching resuscitation skills
Teaching experience

Additional Criteria:

Essential:

Work as part of a team but able to work independently when required
Good personal time management skills
Full driving license as this is a cross site role / Ability to fulfil travel requirements of post
Able to manage time effectively to carry out cross site working on a regular basis.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

Certificate of Sponsorship:

UK Professional Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.