Lead Resuscitation Practitioner

Overview

The Lead Resuscitation Practitioner at St George's Hospital provides expert clinical leadership for resuscitation practice across the major trauma hospital, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and evidence-based resuscitation care. The post holder leads the Trust's resuscitation service in line with national guidance and best practice, supporting high-risk clinical areas including the Emergency Department, Critical Care, Theatres, and inpatient wards. Working closely with senior clinicians and multidisciplinary teams, the role maintains clinical standards, improves patient outcomes, and responds to the complex needs of a major trauma setting.

The post holder has strategic responsibility for governance, education, and quality assurance of resuscitation practice, including the delivery of mandatory and specialist training programmes. As the Trust's subject matter expert, the Lead Resuscitation Practitioner ensures staff competence, oversees incident review and learning from resuscitation events, and drives continuous improvement through audit, simulation, and service development. This role provides visible clinical leadership and acts as an expert role model during resuscitation events, offering specialist advice and support to multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, timely, and effective care across all clinical areas.

The post holder will be a key resource for Trust staff, promoting high standards of resuscitation practice and supporting teams in high-pressure situations to achieve the best possible patient outcomes. The role includes responsibility for ensuring the Trust's Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Policy is regularly reviewed and updated in line with Resuscitation Council (UK) guidance and national best practice, with assurance that updates are communicated and embedded into clinical practice.

The Lead Resuscitation Practitioner will oversee resuscitation equipment readiness across the Trust, ensuring equipment is maintained, available, and safe for immediate use, with risks identified through audit addressed promptly. The post holder will oversee the delivery of resuscitation training in accordance with Trust policy, ensuring staff competence and compliance with mandatory requirements. The role includes leadership and development of Senior Resuscitation Practitioners, driving quality improvement initiatives, and contributing to the Deteriorating Patient Group to support early recognition of deterioration and reduce preventable cardiac arrests.

• Provide effective clinical and professional leadership to the Resuscitation Practitioner team, supporting, mentoring, and developing staff to ensure a skilled, resilient, and high-performing service.
• Plan, organise, deliver, and evaluate multidisciplinary resuscitation training across the Trust, ensuring training is evidence-based, aligned with national standards, and responsive to clinical need.
• Oversee training compliance and the use of audit, feedback, and quality data to continuously improve training provision and staff competence.
• Participate in and lead resuscitation-related audits (including equipment audits, DNACPR audits) and contribute to the National Cardiac Arrest Audit; ensure learning from audits, incidents, and data is embedded into clinical practice.
• Act as a senior clinical member of adult, paediatric, neonatal, and maternal cardiac arrest teams, providing expert leadership during resuscitation events and ensuring care reflects current best practice.
• Co-chair the Trust Resuscitation Committee, advising on training, techniques, equipment, and policy development; contribute to governance, assurance, and strategic decision-making.
• Oversee financial management of the resuscitation service, including income generation, expenditure, and Cost Improvement Plans, ensuring financial sustainability alongside safety and training quality.
• Identify and regularly review resuscitation training needs of all Trust staff; work with internal and external teams to share best practice and support service development.
• Lead and drive quality improvement projects related to resuscitation practice using data, audits, and incident learning to enhance patient safety and service effectiveness.

St George s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George s Hospital (one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area);
St Helier Hospital (home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary s Hospital for Children); and Epsom Hospital (home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre). After years of collaboration, the Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021, remaining as two separate Trusts to collaborate on research, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

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