Resuscitation Lead

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Resuscitation Lead to oversee resuscitation practices and training. This pivotal role requires strong clinical leadership and expertise to ensure compliance with national standards and improve patient safety across services. The ideal candidate will lead the implementation of resuscitation strategies and provide guidance to clinical teams. Join an organization dedicated to transforming health care and ensuring high-quality care standards.

Benefits

NHS Agenda for Change Band 7 salary

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to wages as earned

Online and in-person wellbeing support

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience in resuscitation practice and education.
• Strong clinical governance and patient safety knowledge.
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of resuscitation strategy.
• Oversee resuscitation training programs and compliance.
• Collaborate with clinical teams to ensure best practices.

Skills

Resuscitation practice

Clinical leadership

Training delivery

Compliance management

Patient safety frameworks

Education

Registered healthcare professional

Job description

# Resuscitation Lead## Job IntroductionAt HCRG Care Group, we believe that safe, high-quality care is underpinned by excellent clinical leadership, strong governance and a relentless focus on learning and improvement. We are now seeking an experienced and credible Resuscitation Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering resuscitation practice across our organisation.This is a highly influential role, offering the opportunity to lead the strategic development, implementation and assurance of resuscitation training and standards across a diverse range of services. Working closely with senior clinical leaders, educators and operational teams, you will provide expert leadership and advice to ensure best practice is embedded and patient safety remains paramount.No two days will be the same. You may be contributing to governance and assurance activity, supporting services to improve compliance, shaping training approaches, or advising on national guidance and quality improvement initiatives. You’ll thrive in a role that requires visibility, collaboration and the confidence to influence across complex clinical systems.If you’re a proactive resuscitation professional who combines strong clinical expertise with the ability to lead, support and challenge at all levels, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at scale and help drive consistently high standards of care.**Main Responsibilities**As the Resuscitation Lead, you will:* Provide strategic and professional leadership for resuscitation practice across HCRG Care Group, ensuring safe, high-quality and compliant clinical care across all services.* Lead the development, implementation and ongoing review of the organisation’s resuscitation strategy, policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with national guidance, best practice and regulatory requirements.* Oversee the governance and assurance framework for resuscitation, including audit, incident review, learning dissemination and continuous quality improvement.* Ensure the effective delivery and quality assurance of resuscitation training programmes, including Basic Life Support, Immediate Life Support and other relevant training pathways, maintaining high levels of compliance and clinical confidence.* Act as the organisation’s subject matter expert for resuscitation, providing specialist advice and guidance to senior clinicians, operational leaders and multidisciplinary teams.* Work collaboratively with clinical education teams, service leads and governance colleagues to embed consistent standards and improve outcomes across diverse care settings.* Lead the review and implementation of resuscitation-related equipment, resources and processes, ensuring they are fit for purpose, safe and consistently available.* Support services in responding to resuscitation-related incidents, complaints or regulatory enquiries, ensuring robust investigation, learning and assurance.* Monitor performance using data, insight and reporting to identify risks, gaps and improvement opportunities, escalating concerns where appropriate.* Represent HCRG Care Group at internal and external forums related to resuscitation, patient safety and clinical quality, acting as a credible ambassador for the organisation.**Person Requirements**To succeed in this role, you will bring:* A registered healthcare professional background, with significant experience in resuscitation practice, education or clinical leadership within a complex healthcare environment.* Demonstrable expertise in resuscitation standards, national guidance and best practice, with the credibility to operate confidently as a subject matter expert across diverse services.* Proven experience of leading, delivering or assuring resuscitation training programmes, including governance, audit, compliance and continuous improvement.* Strong experience working within clinical governance and patient safety frameworks, with the ability to review incidents, identify learning and drive sustainable improvement.* The ability to influence, advise and challenge effectively at all levels, including senior clinicians, operational leaders and multidisciplinary teams.* Experience of working across multiple services or care settings, navigating competing priorities and supporting consistent standards in complex organisational structures.* Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to engage, educate and support colleagues across a wide range of professional backgrounds.* High levels of autonomy, resilience and professional judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced and evolving clinical environment.* A values-driven approach to leadership, aligned with our organisational values of We Care, We Think and We Do, and a strong commitment to improving patient safety and quality of care.**Package Description**As a Resuscitation Lead, you’ll be part of our valued leadership team at HCRG Care Group.You will feel valued in this role within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:* NHS Agenda for Change Band 7 salary with group pension* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials* Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing* Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling* Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to contribute ideas that help us deliver our purpose of changing lives through transforming health and care - backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding “Good” or “Outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission**About The Company**We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to