Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical Care

Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical CareApplications are invited for a Clinical Fellow in simulation and critical care at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start in February 2026.This post is for 12 months and extension by mutual agreement and would suit candidates with some previous ICU experience and Acute Specialty experience. Anaesthetics experience is desirable, but not essential. Applications for 6 months will also be considered.Simulation Fellow (0.4 of the role)The appointee will support the simulation team and critical care in delivering a broad range of high quality undergraduate and postgraduate clinical simulation teaching. This will also support the trusts aim to enhance patient safety through inter-professional simulation training with a focus on team working, communication skills and learning from critical incidents. We deliver our simulated scenarios both within our simulation suite and "in situ" in clinical areas. We have 2 state of the art simulation mannequins. One is located in the Sim Centre within the Whittington Education Centre (WEC), and one is located in critical care.Clinical Fellow (0.6 of the role)The clinical role is in the day-to-day management of patients on our 11 bedded adult Critical Care Unit with about 700 admissions a year working on our middle grade rota, as well as supporting the Critical Care Outreach service. The Unit is fully covered by Consultant Intensivists in a dedicated rota.The post will close when a sufficient number of applications have been receivedMain duties of the jobThere are opportunities to work alongside consultants experienced in simulation from critical care, our Practice Development Nursing team in critical care, and the anaesthetic department.Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the main duties of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.About usWhittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.Job responsibilitiesDuties & ResponsibilitiesSimulationTo assist in the development and delivery of trust wide simulation training at Whittington Health. The teaching fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring simulation training for a range of medical, nursing and AHP, and undergraduate medical studentsAssist in teaching communication and team working skills to multi-disciplinary staff utilising a variety of scenariosContribute to undergraduate training and exams. A greater number of medical students have been allocated to critical care post COVID, and supporting their education will be part of your role.Contribute to delivering education programmes to enhance quality of education e.g. foundation programme, IMTDevelop a knowledge of human factors, critical incident managementClinical, Professional & ManagerialKeeping up to date with new clinical developmentsRecognition of limitations and knowledge, and a commitment to develop learningWorking with mannekins and other task trainersComply with relevant professional codes of conductUndertake audit and quality assurance work around SBEAbility to convey enthusiasm for SBE as an effective means of improving clinical and multi-professional team workingAbility to prioritise, meet deadlines, work flexibly and, on occasion work, independentlyComply with trust policies, procedures and mandatory training.Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details.Person SpecificationQualificationsoRegistered medical practitioner oValid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice oProvider status at ALS o1st part of FRCA< MRCP or MCEMoSimulation faculty course or willingness to undertakeoProvider status at ATLS or APLSSkills and AbilitiesoExperience of teachingoGood team working abilitiesoAbility to organise and manage own workload efficientlyoEmpathetic and sensitive approach to patient needsoApproachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skillsoPositive approach to lessons learntoTeam loyaltyoConfident approach without being arrogantoWillingness to support and deliver simulation faculty trainingIT SkillsExperience and knowledgeoSuccessful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalentoEvidence of educational achievement and progressionoWillingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in-situ simoExperience in a critical care medicine role at F2 level or aboveoExcellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staffoAbility to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patientsoExperience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staffoKnowledge related to planning an educational projectoExperience of using mannekinsoExperience of audit managementoExperience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduatesoTeaching of non-medical health professionals.Personal AttributesAbility to communicate with staff at all levelsoAbility to work as a member of the teamoDemonstrated commitment to clinical educationoTime management abilityoAware of work learning needsoSelf-motivatedoEnthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the futureoEvidence of innovationoExperience of Human Factors trainingOther requirementsoMust be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workloadoAbility to work at different sits within the organisationoDemonstrate evidence of lifelong learningoReflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performanceDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr