Job overview

The post is available from August 2026 and is ideal for a doctor with an interest in developing expertise in simulation. The successful applicant will work closely with Dr Salwa Malik, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, on developing her novel tabletop simulation methodology and with Dr Nicholas Tovell, Head of simulation and Essential Clinical Skills, on supporting trust simulation efforts across multiple fields.

The fellow will be responsible, together with the clinical skills team, for the provision of regular simulation sessions for foundation doctors and other allied healthcare professionals. They will also have the opportunity to be involved in simulation training on a number of locally run courses.

The primary project will be to develop tabletop simulation methodology. There are other exciting projects that the successful applicant may want to be involved with including Ultrasound guided cannulation training, FOAME (Freedom of Access to medical education) projects, TEL (technology enhanced learning) and other projects focusing on regional anaesthesia and human factors.

The successful applicant will be expected to work for 3 days per week on simulation-related activities, patient safety, and other medical education projects.

In recent years our Simulation Fellows have presented at a range of national conferences and achieved a number of publications. This has put them in extremely strong positions for subsequent training programme applications.

Main duties of the job

"The Floor” is intense, enjoyable and effective. It has been tested in a range of emergency departments across the world with doctors, nurses and executive managers, (clinical and non-clinical).

The successful applicant will look into the next steps in tabletop simulation and how we can help other departments learn from our experience with this training modality.

The fellow’s role will have several facets:

1.    Using the copies we have of the “Floor”: to go and teach other practitioner’s to run the game and collect data for improvement of the game and to feed back to participating department clinical governance records/meetings with (hopefully) integration into participant’s PDP.

2.    To facilitate “play-tests”, collect metrics and appraise our two new offerings “The Floor: Paeds ED” and “The Floor: ITU” (Currently developed in “Alpha”)

3.    To develop new projects with partners to utilise tabletop simulation in different fields with a specific lean towards improving organisational efficiency, process and protocol development and training global situational awareness. Ideally these offerings would look at how to map site specific major incidents and develop a “deck” of these for use in current and future offerings. We also want to look at whether the methodology could be applied to festival/large gatherings (it is currently but not in a “game-ified” form).

Working for our organisation

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating.

Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. 

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.