Assistant Practitioner

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The closing date is 29 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join the Cardiac Arrest Prevention (CAP) Team. The cardiac arrest prevention team provides a comprehensive service for the organisation including a significant training program for all clinical staff from basic through to advanced courses.

The team’s main focus is to eliminate avoidable cardiac arrest through extensive audit programmes, rapid case reviews of any unexpected death or potential failure to rescue, teaching and providing professional support to clinical areas and individuals.

In addition to this the team provides professional advice in relation to cardiac arrest prevention and resuscitation, coordinates the procurement of equipment and organization of the hospital emergency teams.

The team plays a significant role in patient safety and is involved in proactively managing risk in relation to cardiac arrest prevention & resuscitation. The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of cardiac arrest prevention & resuscitation training across the organisation and will assist with the delivery of a strategy that will enable staff to deliver high quality resuscitation care.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites – Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield, and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under‑represented.

Full Job Description s can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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• Deliver effective cardiac arrest prevention training programmes across the organisation.
• Assist the Lead Nurse with duties that will enable the effective running of the cardiac arrest prevention service.
• Contribute to the development of projects and strategy by leading on an identified aspect of cardiac arrest prevention or resuscitation practice.
• Identify and proactively manage cardiac arrest prevention related risk.
• Provide resuscitation and deteriorating patient training.
• Support the sisters/charge nurses in the delivery of the service.
• Assist with the delivery of projects, under the direction of a sister/charge nurse, as required.
• Assist with audit, under the direction of a sister/charge nurse, as required.
• Provide advice in relation to basic resuscitation or deteriorating patient enquiries from clinical staff and refer complex enquiries to a sister/charge nurse.

• Foundation degree in health and Social care (or willing to work towards)
• Willing to undertake an ILS
• Willing to undertake an ILS instructor course

• Ability to communicate with senior clinical staff with confidence
• Ability to convey information in an easy to understand manner

• Ability to travel frequently between hospital sites

• Experience in an acute care environment
• Experience of teaching either formally or informally
• Experience of emergency situations involving resuscitation of patients

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.

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust