Band 8a Lead Resuscitation Practitioner

We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our otherwise fully complemented Resuscitation services as part of BHRUT.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a small, specialist, cohesive group of under the guidance of both the medical clinical lead and divisional director of nursing for the service.

The role is a mixture of clinical responsibilities with managerial responsibility with a strong focus on delivering first class resuscitation training and ensuring the quality and safety of effective resuscitation and escalation of some of our most dependent and vulnerable patients.

This role will focus upon both the day to day delivery of services as well as the strategic delivery of a sustainable training programme and staff for the expansion of the Trust sites.

If you possess excellent communication and leadership skills we welcome the opportunity to discuss this further with you by contacting Liam Edwards on extension 6788 for informal discussions, To strategically lead and direct the Trust-wide Resuscitation Service. The Resuscitation Officer will work closely with the Trust to deliver a programme of resuscitation training to allTrust clinical and non-clinical staff.

The post holder will act as subject matter expert in the field of resuscitation and promote the actions pertaining to the resuscitation policy.

The post holder will support organisational wide responsibility for the design, implementation and monitoring of resuscitation service.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.