Job summary
- Main area
- Simulation
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 Months FTC)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexable as to manage course start and finish times, cross site working weekly at Wexham and Frimley Hospitals, and some weekend work when needed,)
- Job ref
- 151-SL0343-A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Across site
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Simulation Educator
Band 7
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician with an interest in education to develop as a clinical educator within FHFT simulation services. This post is aimed at those who wish to build on their personal teaching experience to develop expertise in educational theory and practice. As a general requirement, the post holder will need to work flexibly across our hospital sites Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours with daily hours to meet service delivery needs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within the simulation service across both Wexham and Frimley hospital sites, delivering a mixture of simulations. Foundation Doctor simulation, being a major part for 6 months a year, alongside supporting, advising, standardising, and streamlining other simulation activities, A big dive is for multi-professional simulation as well as cross-departmental activity. The role will look at debriefing models and physiological safety aspects to ensure a robust process is across all activities. The role will also be involved in expanding the service as well as commercial activity.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To lead the running and implementation of simulation courses, planning this in collaboration with the Simulation Lead, the Sim Centre Managers, clinical fellows, and the operational education leads.
Administer, oversee, support, and facilitate simulation sessions to a high standard.
Promote communication to ensure efficient and effective running and use of the clinical simulation services and equipment and attend relevant meetings as and when required.
Work with a variety of healthcare disciplines to promote multi-disciplinary working and education.
Work with the Simulation centre mangers to utilise space for clinical teaching.
Ensure that Trust policies are adhered to i.e. Manual Handling, Safeguarding Children, Infection Control etc.
To contribute to teaching of programmes not specifically related to simulation, as and when necessary and appropriate.
Working closely with the Education administration team in managing the Simulation Centre
Development and delivery of clinical scenarios for teaching.
Liaise with Clinical Skills Co-ordinators, as and when necessary to ensure consistency in support provided in programmes.
Ensure the economical use of resources for all educational sessions and manage resources effectively to maximise usage.
Ensure that equipment is used in line with Health and Safety standards and stored in accordance with departmental security requirements.
The postholder will be required to familiarise themselves with any new equipment procured and ensure all relevant staff are appropriately trained.
Provide technical support during educational activities, adjusting technical requirements as required by the faculty.
Facilitate and attend faculty briefing meetings prior to simulation sessions, including minute-taking
Design, co-ordinate and manage interprofessional simulation scenarios
Lead on simulation scenario debriefings and establish a standardised approach
Attend and engage with FHFT MDT Simulation forum
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Clinician (HCPC or NMC)
- Evidence of Level 6 (degree level education)
- Recognised teaching/assessing course
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Simulation debriefing training
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of course in Mentorship
- Master's Qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience gained in the NHS workplace through training and development.
- Experience in a wide range of clinical skills relevant to trainees and the MDT.
- Experience in maintaining and using a wide range of simulation equipment
- Developed knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience in simulation application, delivery, and design
- Experience with Audio Visual Equipment
- Experience in simulation debriefing
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Able to provide advice concerning patient care in the context of simulation
- Provide training to a wide variety of individuals from all areas of the MDT
- Create complex simulations for learners to analyse and interpret
- Keep abreast of best practice and NICE guidelines
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Peter Woodford
- Job title
- Simmulation Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07887966131
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