We have an exciting opportunity for a Simulation Education Fellow. You will be working closely with the established Simulation Team. This post is an early career-grade educational position, which will facilitate further core training opportunities.
You will be engaged in simulation based education with undergraduate medical students and also post graduate teaching including AHP's.
You will have a key contribution to departmental teaching activities and simulation training
You will also have the opportunity to further your formal education to gain a recognised teaching qualification.
To support Postgraduate inter-professional simulation. The successful post-holder will be expected to look for opportunities for in-situ simulation, often at short notice, taking advantage of the clinical environment as appropriate whilst maintaining patient safety. This will require dynamic planning as part of a team alongside the existing simulation faculty and a commitment to development and implementation of the educational style across the Trust.
The successful applicant will take part in various modes of assessment and appraisal with emphasis on designing, developing and delivering simulation education to undergraduates and post-graduates using a variety of methods.
You will have a significant role in the delivery of simulation education for years 3, 4 and 5 of the BSMS and Year 5 or the KCL curriculum.
Educational models may include problem based learning, clinical and communication skills tuition, inter-professional education, the use of simulated patients and environments and use of advanced whole body simulation (via use of Sim Man 3G) and also VR.
The involvement in the undergraduate curriculum may involve a range of activities, including bedside teaching, clinical skills teaching, communication, ethics and law tutorials, as well as in-course assessment and end of year OSCE examinations.
A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to nurseries at Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne District General Hospital, staff restaurants and on-site staff accommodation.
In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available to staff 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Onsite parking is available for a small administration fee.
There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.
Expansion in simulation education is anticipated and planned by the simulation faculty, to include IMT simulation for acute medicine, and advanced emergency medicine techniques including difficult airway and sedation alongside higher specialist training courses.
We envisage setting up skills teaching for IMT and ACCS trainees to align with the curricula for each. This will extend to regional teaching days and potentially national conferences.
To embed and sustain ReSPECT training across the trust, working in collaboration with leads within the trust and also with the local hospice leads.
Recent post holders have received formal training in advanced medical simulation and this will be encouraged and supported for the post-holder. Training in simulation techniques and feedback will also be provided by the current simulation faculty at ESHT.
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This advert closes on Sunday 23 Mar 2025
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