Resus Practitioner

Job Overview

As part of our dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in supporting the recognition, assessment and management of patients who are acutely unwell or at risk of clinical deterioration. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will respond to medical emergencies across the hospital, helping to deliver timely interventions that improve patient safety and outcomes.

As part of our dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in supporting the recognition, assessment and management of patients who are acutely unwell or at risk of clinical deterioration. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will respond to medical emergencies across the hospital, helping to deliver timely interventions that improve patient safety and outcomes.

• Provide expert clinical support for patients experiencing, or at risk of, clinical deterioration, life-threatening events, or cardiac arrest.
• Respond rapidly to medical emergencies, delivering timely assessment, intervention and ongoing management.
• Support the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, protocols and pathways relating to the deteriorating patient and resuscitation practice.
• Promote best practice in the recognition and management of deteriorating patients through education, support and collaboration with ward teams.

You will be a motivated and confident practitioner with:

• Significant experience caring for acutely unwell and deteriorating patients within an acute healthcare setting.
• Proven skills in managing medical emergencies and delivering high-quality resuscitation care.
• Sound clinical judgement and the ability to remain calm and decisive under pressure.
• Experience contributing to the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, policies or quality improvement initiatives related to patient deterioration and emergency care.

This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a highly skilled, supportive and passionate multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding care across the Trust. You'll work alongside experienced clinicians in a role that is both challenging and rewarding, where your expertise will have a direct impact on patient safety, clinical excellence and improved outcomes.

If you're looking to broaden your experience in acute and emergency care while making a real difference to patients across the organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

This is a clinically focused and educational role at Frimley Health.

The post holder will support the Band 7 in the day-to-day provision of the Critical care Outreach services across Frimley Health.

This is a clinically orientated role that will require the post holder to work weekends, evenings and night shifts as required for service delivery.

Working within the Rapid Response Team providing nursing intervention with appropriate assessment and management of the deteriorating patient and those at risk of deteriorating in Frimley Health.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.

We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• BSc…