Job summary
Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellow in simulation and critical care at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start in August 2025.
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.
About us
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 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 description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- oRegistered medical practitioner oValid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice oProvider status at ALS o1st part of FRCA< MRCP or MCEM
Desirable
- oPostgraduate medical qualification
- oSimulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
- oProvider status at ATLS or APLS
- oEducation qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oExperience of teaching
- oGood communication skills
- oGood team working abilities
- oAbility to organise and manage own workload efficiently
- oEmpathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
- oApproachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
- oPositive approach to lessons learnt
Desirable
- oWillingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training
- oPresentation skills
- IT Skills
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- oSuccessful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
- oEvidence of educational achievement and progression
- oWillingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in-situ sim
- oExperience in a critical care medicine role at F2 level or above
- oExcellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
- oAbility to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patients
- oExperience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
Desirable
- oKnowledge related to planning an educational project
- oExperience of using mannekins
- oExperience of audit management
- oExperience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- oTeaching of non-medical health professionals.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- oAbility to work as a member of the team
- oDemonstrated commitment to clinical education
- oTime management ability
- oAware of work learning needs
- oSelf-motivated
Desirable
- oEnthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the future
- oEvidence of innovation
- oExperience of Human Factors training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered medical practitioner oValid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice oProvider status at ALS o1st part of FRCA< MRCP or MCEM
Desirable
- oPostgraduate medical qualification
- oSimulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
- oProvider status at ATLS or APLS
- oEducation qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oExperience of teaching
- oGood communication skills
- oGood team working abilities
- oAbility to organise and manage own workload efficiently
- oEmpathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
- oApproachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
- oPositive approach to lessons learnt
Desirable
- oWillingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training
- oPresentation skills
- IT Skills
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- oSuccessful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
- oEvidence of educational achievement and progression
- oWillingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in-situ sim
- oExperience in a critical care medicine role at F2 level or above
- oExcellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
- oAbility to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patients
- oExperience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
Desirable
- oKnowledge related to planning an educational project
- oExperience of using mannekins
- oExperience of audit management
- oExperience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- oTeaching of non-medical health professionals.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- oAbility to work as a member of the team
- oDemonstrated commitment to clinical education
- oTime management ability
- oAware of work learning needs
- oSelf-motivated
Desirable
- oEnthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the future
- oEvidence of innovation
- oExperience of Human Factors training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
