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
1. 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
2. Assist in teaching communication and team working skills to multi-disciplinary staff utilising a variety of scenarios
3. 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.
4. Contribute to delivering education programmes to enhance quality of education e.g. foundation programme, IMT
5. Develop a knowledge of human factors, critical incident management
Clinical, Professional & Managerial
6. Keeping up to date with new clinical developments
7. Recognition of limitations and knowledge, and a commitment to develop learning
8. Working with mannekins and other task trainers
9. Comply with relevant professional codes of conduct
10. Undertake audit and quality assurance work around SBE
11. Ability to convey enthusiasm for SBE as an effective means of improving clinical and multi-professional team working
12. 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
13. •Registered medical practitioner
14. •Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
15. •Provider status at ALS
Desirable criteria
16. •Postgraduate medical qualification
17. •Simulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
18. •Provider status at ATLS or APLS
19. •Education qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
20. •Experience of teaching
21. •Good communication skills
22. •Good team working abilities
23. •Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently
24. •Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
25. •Approachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
26. •Positive approach to lessons learnt
Desirable criteria
27. •Willingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training
28. •Presentation skills
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
29. •Successful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
30. •Evidence of educational achievement and progression
31. •Willingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in-situ sim
32. •Experience in a critical care medicine role at F2 level or above
33. •Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
34. •Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patients
35. •Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
Desirable criteria
36. •Knowledge related to planning an educational project
37. •Experience of using mannekins
38. •Experience of audit management
39. •Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
40. •Teaching of non-medical health professionals.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
41. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
42. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
43. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
44. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
45. Participate in required training and supervision.
46. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.