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Communication

• Regularly adapts/modifies communication techniques within teaching and clinical emergencies. Therefore meeting the different learning needs and levels of understanding from qualified health care providers to parents and relatives.
• Possess and utilise good communication skills for formal presentations to relevant groups and committees, teaching, facilitation and role play during planned teaching in the classroom and simulations in a clinical environment.
• Analyse and disseminate information from all sources, both external and internal, to the Resuscitation group and to additional departments as required.
• Assume an advisory role during cardiac arrest calls, acting as a role model, offering advice, thereby ensuring best practice, as required to the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure good communication and develop effective working relationships with staff at all levels across the Trust to ensure service delivery is maintained to the highest standard.
• Ensure all wards and departments are in possession of and understand current procedures for cardio- pulmonary resuscitation in-line with Resuscitation Council (UK) recommendations and Trust policy.
• Present cardiac arrest, DNACPR and equipment audit findings to relevant groups and committees, eg, Patient safety Groups, Governance Groups and the University Hospitals Sussex Management Board

Service Delivery and Improvement

• Work closely with the Resuscitation Services team in the creation and review of Trust policies and procedures relating to Resuscitation, ensuring that such policies and procedures accurately reflect best practice as agreed nationally.
• Plan, manage and implement relevant audits related to Resuscitation and implement action plans based on audit findings.
• Assist in the implementation, administration and provision of a comprehensive in-house training programme in basic, intermediate and advanced life support and related subjects for all health care workers within the Trust in accordance with Trust policy.
• Assist in the development of Resuscitation programmes, providing administrative support, advice and research, encouraging inter-professional learning.
• Assist colleagues or lead in the organisation of Resuscitation Council UK and Advanced Life Support Group accredited courses or other courses for external organisations such as BSMS.
• Teach/facilitate to all grades of staff, both medical, nursing and/or professions allied to medicine, on any of the courses run by the RSD including Immediate Life Support (ILS) courses at short notice, ad-hoc or unplanned sessions.
• Work with the resuscitation services team to develop protocols and guidelines to support clinical practice and ensure these are updates as required.
• Responsible for the development, planning and co-ordination of a specialist service. To assist in the management, development and research of service, including service reviews.
• Familiar with resuscitation service improvement processes and techniques.
• Able to implement changes in service delivery autonomously.
• Able to work in accordance with service delivery strategies and demonstrate improvement.
• Manage allocated training by preparing appropriate handouts, equipment and training venue. Feedback any issues of concern, raised during training, to either the Senior Resuscitation Practitioners or the Lead Resuscitation Practitioner.
• Responsible for the safe use of equipment by others, for example defibrillators and bone injector gun, during simulated training practice and in the clinical environment when attending clinical incidents.
• Adapt clinical training equipment to meet the needs of the staff using the equipment during training.
• Ensure all wards and departments are in possession of and understand current procedures for cardio- pulmonary resuscitation in-line with Resuscitation Council (UK) recommendations and Trust policy.

People Management and Development

• To provide leadership and management of any junior banded staff and apprentices that may work with the team.
• Carry out, where required, appraisals and support the development of any junior banded staff and apprentices that may work with the team.

Learning and Development

• Attend mandatory training updates as required.
• Undertake training as necessary in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the line manager as part of the personal development process.
• Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.
• Identify own learning needs and jointly plan training requirements with your line manager
• Participate in the Trust’s appraisal process to discuss how your role will help deliver the best possible care to our patients and help to deliver any changes in service.
• Maintain Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) instructor/provider status on ILS, PILS and or ALS/EAPLS/APLS/NLS & ARNI courses, as per RCUK regulations.