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Job summary

Main area
ITU
Grade
MT04
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
220-S&C-MED-6178253
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Town
London
Salary
£55,329 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 08:00

Employer heading

Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical Care

MT04

Covid-19 Vaccination 

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We encourage and support  staff to get  COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. 

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellow in simulation and critical care at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start in August 2024.

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 not essential.

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. One is in the Sim Centre within the Whittington Education Centre (WEC), and one is located in critical care. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, innovative doctor with excellent communication skills to help us develop and deliver our unfolding simulation-based education programme.

Clinical Fellow (0.6 of the role)

The clinical role is in the day-to-day management of patients on our12 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. 

Please note that the post will close when a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

There 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.

Working for our organisation

Whittington 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 Trust believes 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties & Responsibilities

Simulation

  • To 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 students
  • Assist in teaching communication and team working skills to multi-disciplinary staff utilising a variety of scenarios
  • Contribute 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, IMT
  • Develop a knowledge of human factors, critical incident management

Clinical, Professional & Managerial

  • Keeping up to date with new clinical developments
  • Recognition of limitations and knowledge, and a commitment to develop learning
  • Working with mannekins and other task trainers
  • Comply with relevant professional codes of conduct
  • Undertake audit and quality assurance work around SBE
  • Ability to convey enthusiasm for SBE as an effective means of improving clinical and multi-professional team working
  • Ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, work flexibly and, on occasion work, independently

Comply with trust policies, procedures and mandatory training.

Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Registered medical practitioner
  • • Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
  • • Provider status at ALS
Desirable criteria
  • • Postgraduate medical qualification
  • • Simulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
  • • Provider status at ATLS or APLS
  • • Education qualification

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of teaching
  • • Good communication skills
  • • Good team working abilities
  • • Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently
  • • Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
  • • Approachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
  • • Positive approach to lessons learnt
Desirable criteria
  • • Willingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training
  • • Presentation skills

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Successful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
  • • Evidence of educational achievement and progression
  • • Willingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in-situ sim
  • • Experience in a critical care medicine role at F2 level or above
  • • Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
  • • Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patients
  • • Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
Desirable criteria
  • • Knowledge related to planning an educational project
  • • Experience of using mannekins
  • • Experience of audit management
  • • Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
  • • Teaching of non-medical health professionals.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Gillis
Job title
ITU Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07810013443

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Address
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Telephone
020 7288 3254
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