Senior Clinical Fellow in Simulation and Critical Care

Whittington NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Fellow in simulation and critical care starting in August 2025. This role involves supporting clinical simulation education and managing patients in a diverse critical care environment. Candidates should have prior ICU experience and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner with a valid GMC license.
• Experience in teaching and critical care settings.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients in the Critical Care Unit and participate in simulation training.
• Assist in developing and delivering educational programs for medical staff.
• Keep up to date with clinical developments and contribute to quality assurance.

Skills

Communication skills

Team working

Teaching abilities

Organizational skills

Education

Registered medical practitioner

Valid Registration with the General Medical Council

1st part of FRCA

Job description

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Covid-19 Vaccination

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
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 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.

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
• 1st part of FRCA< MRCP or MCEM

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
• IT 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.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
• Ability to work as a member of the team
• Demonstrated commitment to clinical education
• Time management ability
• Aware of work learning needs
• Self-motivated

Desirable criteria

• Enthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the future
• Evidence of innovation
• Experience of Human Factors training

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:

• 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.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• 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.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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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

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 257.2KB)