Job description

Job responsibilities

Quality and Performance

Robustly reviewing key performance measures and reporting frameworks in line with strategic aims.

Leading the achievement of key performance targets and contractual obligations including SLAs, CQC, Core Skills Training Framework England, meeting legislation, policies and procedures for all resuscitation and manual handling education services.

Contributing to the monitoring and reviewing of business performance within resuscitation and manual handling education, reporting on performance internally and externally to the Trust, instigating remedial action where necessary.

Monitor, evaluate and develop resuscitation and manual handling education services.

Provide resuscitation and manual handling education and training within the framework of all educational contracts, supporting trust employees across the organisation to provide comprehensive services and to plan, deliver and evaluate teaching activities.

Ensure data collection and reporting processes for quality purposes and evidence and systems for robust reporting for education governance and quality assurance.

Manage Datix reports and investigations relevant to resuscitation and manual handling incidents to promote learning.

Acts as an accredited course instructor and director for RCUK Courses, ensuring all course regulations are met and the Trust meets requirements for the 4 yearly Course Center Assessment.

Patient Safety/Governance

Implementation and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that resuscitation and manual handling education services adhere to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding solutions to address risk, monitoring progress on mitigation plans.

Supporting a learning organisational culture to review risk, learning from incidents and near misses, by leading a solution focused approach to review, ensuring that lessons are learned and shared.

To support the implementation of the Trusts Clinical Governance, Health and Safety and Risk Management policies relevant to resuscitation and manual handling education and actively participate in governance activities to ensure that the highest standards of training and education are in place, working to ensure the Trust operates in an effective, honest, and open way.

Develop and implement resuscitation and manual handling education policies and procedures, aligned to national guidance.

To actively participate in the Trusts Governance and Quality review meetings to establish education and development needs through Learning from Incidents.

To act as the Trust subject specialist expert for resuscitation clinical practice, attending clinical emergency 2222 calls to ensure maintenance of clinical competencies.

Support clinical staff in hot and cold debrief following clinical emergencies.

Providing support for Trust PSIRF measures, in relation to resuscitation and manual handling issues.

Provide expert support to the Trust Resuscitation Committee Chair, ensuring that the activity aligns to the RCUK Standards.

Take responsibility for the Trust Resuscitation committees secretariat function, taking and disseminating minutes of meetings and advising on operational and educational matters relating to resuscitation.

Service Improvement

Encouraging a climate that allows staff and learners to question and redefine how their work is undertaken ensuring the on-going development of patient centred care, staff and learner experience, and cost-effective use of resources.

Redefining future orientated staff and learner pathways to improve standards of education, address governance issues, improve efficiency and income.

Leading on the project management of service developments to ensure key targets are achieved, including cross cutting themes and pathways, contributing to the delivery of transformational work streams.

Principles & Values

Acting in accordance with Code of Conduct for NHS Managers, Nursing & Midwifery Council / HCPC, and other relevant professional bodies.

Leading by example in the promotion of values, standards, and behaviour within the delivery of improved services, meeting requirements of Trust policy on equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Uphold ethics and values; demonstrate integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, build diverse teams.

Maintain active NMC / HCPC registration and all revalidation requirements.

Maintain active RCUK Instructor and Course Director status.

Team Working

Support the development of all staff within the resuscitation and manual handling education service to ensure that services are led by competent, capable, high performing teams and individuals.

Support staff health and well-being and provide support for staff to manage their working lives, including application of Trust People and Workforce policy as and when required.

Show respect for the views and contributions of other team members; shows empathy; listens, supports and cares for others; consults others and shares information and expertise with them; builds team spirit and reconciles conflict; adapts to team and fits in well.

Ensure multi-professional and multi-disciplinary learning is developed and promoted through liaising with other educational leads.

Communication

Demonstrating effective communication in delivering key messages with clarity and succinctly whilst ensuring that the main message is clear.

Promote and present highly complex and often highly contentious information in a way to suit audiences at all levels across the Trust where significant barriers and resistance to change may be present.

Use information in a timely way to monitor trends in activity, finance, human resources, incidents, and complaints.

Provide reports and present analysis in concise and understandable form to engage action.

Accountability & Responsibility

Being a role model and leader to all staff across the organisation, demonstrating values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Being a visible leader, encouraging staff to contribute to transformation of resuscitation and manual handling education services, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery.

Has defined budgetary responsibility devolved from the Head of Practice Education within the resuscitation and manual handling education service, managing resources, and submitting reports and NHSE WTE returns as required. Working closely with management accounts to ensure systems are in place to monitor and audit the appropriate use of funds. Specifically, the budgets within resuscitation and manual handling education, HEI and NHSE WTE associated finances.

Providing clinical and educational expertise to the Trust learning panels to ensure appropriate spend and accountability for the CPD finances within the Trust.

Line Management

Provide effective management to individuals and teams within sphere of responsibility, leading accountable members of staff to implement on-going change and development.

Apply Trust People and Workforce policies and practices for staff e.g. recruitment, employee relations, appraisals, and individual performance reviews etc.

Provide specialist knowledge of the resuscitation and manual handling education service and senior management support to all staff within the team, specifically for the Resuscitation Officers and Manual Handling Tutor post holders.

Responsible for day-to-day management and promotion of all aspects of the resuscitation and manual handling education service functions.

Knowledge & Expertise

Ensuring that research, audit, data, and information are used to shape and influence strategic direction for the resuscitation and manual handling education service, and directly influences decision making prior to developing business cases, submitting bids and plans.

Ensuring that on-going quality, innovation, and service improvement plans are underpinned by a strong evidence base for improving patient, staff, and learner outcomes and/or patient, staff and learner experience, and in line with service strategies and business plans.

Gathers comprehensive information to support decision making; encourages an organisational learning approach (i.e. learns from successes and failures and seeks learner, staff, and service user feedback.

Provide specialist knowledge and advice and guidance on resuscitation and manual handling education related matters for all learners, staff and managers in the Trust.

Person Specification

Qualification(s) and Professional Training

Essential

• First degree or equivalent professional, academic qualification
• Educated to level 7 or MSc equivalent.
• Holds current / active Professional Registration with NMC / HCPC
• Sustained record of continuous professional development
• ALS / EPALS Course Instructor
• ALS / EPALS Course Director

Desirable

• Post registration qualification
• Hold relevant qualification in Education and Training (e.g. PGCE)
• Leadership Qualification
• Project Management Qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Specialist knowledge within Resuscitation practice and education, underpinned by demonstrable experience within that specialism
• Experience of designing and facilitating a range of topics to adult learners- including demonstrable ability to differentiate for varying ability levels
• Experience of policy and service development in collaboration with colleagues and external bodies- e.g. HEIs, RCUK and NHSE
• High level of literacy, reporting, presentation skills and delivering training
• Experience of leading a clinical or education team
• Knowledge of evaluation of learning and development interventions
• Experience of clinical teaching and assessing within the NHS setting
• Experience of managing budgets
• Knowledge of relevant professional body statutory regulations
• Knowledge of NHS EDI and current NHS strategy
• Knowledge of Resuscitation Council UK guidelines and standards

Desirable

• Experience of managing a manual handling service
• Understanding of NHSE WTE finance
• Experience of implementing service redesign incorporating a Quality Improvement methodology

Qualification(s) and Professional Training

Essential

• First degree or equivalent professional, academic qualification
• Educated to level 7 or MSc equivalent.
• Holds current / active Professional Registration with NMC / HCPC
• Sustained record of continuous professional development
• Post registration qualification
• Hold relevant qualification in Education and Training (e.g. PGCE)
• Strong verbal and numerical reasoning skills
• Highly developed clinical skills and competencies

Desirable

• Project Management Qualification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Self-motivated
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills with ability to influence at senior levels
• Ability to work autonomously
• Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust Values

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 .

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 .

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ

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