Community Resuscitation Training Officer

at  North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to provide quality assurances to the trust, enjoy meeting people and want to make a difference to the service we provide through volunteers as well as local communities across the North East?
Then this is the role for you!
The North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit someone to join our team as a secondment until end March 2025.
Directly accountable to the Volunteer Development Manager, you will provide efficient and effective support to internal and external team member and stakeholders, within a multi-disciplinary team supporting CFR Volunteers as well as other volunteer areas, you must have excellent people skills with a dynamic approach and can think outside the box.
The successful candidate will also require excellent communication skills that are essential to the role, with the ability to be flexible using effective time management skills to prioritise workloads, be computer literate and always ensure professionalism.
Candidates must have an A Level or equivalent, be able to have experience in training delivery and basic and advanced life support skills
Candidates must hold a current valid UK driving License.
Be prepared to Travel .
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of Basic and Emergency Life Support Training to internal and external groups.
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of Statutory and Mandatory Training of both internal and external volunteers and will also support the team with training delivery when required.
The post holder will support the Volunteer Team in ensuring that all relevant procedures are carried out appropriately and the department fulfils its statutory obligations.
We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.
Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!
Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.
We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.
We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.
Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of “safe, effective and responsive care for all”.

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

• To support the Community Resuscitation team with delivery of basic life support and AED training within the community. Deliver training to both internal and external groups around Basic Life and Emergency Life Support. Actively communicate with First Responder and community schemes ensuring that our service level is met and measured. Promoting the principles of Basic Life Support, including CPR & AED training for the community in accordance with agreed principles to deliver early defibrillation (use of automated external defibrillators), including associated training for the identified groups, all the time promoting NEAS. Marinating accurate records of training delivered in accordance with the criteria as well as being responsible for the regular servicing and maintaining of all equipment as per trust servicing and manufactures policies.

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