Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical Care

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in London is seeking a Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical Care to enhance educational programs through simulation training. Candidates should possess a medical practitioner qualification with prior experience in ICU settings. This role involves managing patients in the Critical Care Unit and assisting in simulation training delivery. Opportunities for personal and professional growth within a supportive team environment await the right individual who is passionate about education in clinical settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in teaching and managing clinical training sessions.
• Ability to teach communication skills and team working to multi-disciplinary staff.
• Experience in a critical care role at F2 level or above.

Responsibilities

• Support simulation training and critical care education delivery.
• Manage day-to-day patient care in the Critical Care Unit.
• Contribute to educational programs enhancing training quality.

Skills

Teaching experience

Good team working abilities

Ability to organise own workload

Empathetic approach

Excellent interpersonal skills

IT Skills

Education

Registered medical practitioner

Valid Registration with the General Medical Council

Simulation faculty course

Provider status at ALS

1st part of FRCA, MRCP or MCEM

Tools

Simulation mannequins

Job description

Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical Care

Applications 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 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 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

• 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
• oSimulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
• oProvider status at ATLS or APLS

Skills and Abilities

• oExperience of teaching
• 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
• oTeam loyalty
• oConfident approach without being arrogant
• oWillingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training
• IT Skills

Experience and knowledge

• 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
• 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

• 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
• oEnthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the future
• oEvidence of innovation
• oExperience of Human Factors training

Other requirements

• oMust be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workload
• oAbility to work at different sits within the organisation
• oDemonstrate evidence of lifelong learning
• oReflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance

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.