Job summary
- Main area
- medical
- Grade
- MTO3
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from August 2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 32 hours per week (32 hours over 4 days)
- Job ref
- 164-7018915
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nottingham
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- 拢49,909 0
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Simulation Education Fellow
MTO3
Job overview
Simulation Education Fellow 鈥 12 months from August 2025听 4 days/32 hours per week
MTO3
听Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre is a centre of excellence for multi-professional learning and education and is a regional centre for advanced clinical simulation-based education as well as offering a range of clinical skills based teaching for local and regional NHS staff. Our educational activities include teaching programmes related to patient safety, Human Factors and team training.
听This is an exciting time to join our team as Simulation Education Fellow and would be suited to a doctor who has successfully completed their Foundation training or Basic Specialist training and who is interested in a career in medical education. The post is 4 days a week, providing opportunity for one day a week of clinical work in a speciality of choice, subject to discussions and agreements in advance.
听Working alongside our expert simulation team, you will develop personal skills around writing, developing and delivering simulation based teaching, and debriefing skills.
You will be responsible for organising teaching programmes and programme evaluation, working with medical and multiprofessional colleagues across the organisation to ensure the programmes meet learner needs.
听You will have the opportunity to develop and extend your knowledge and practice in research methodology (both qualitative and quantitative) that applies to educational practice or outcomes and /or Human Factors.
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Main duties of the job
1.听听听听听 You will work with Centre Director and multi-professional Simulation Education team to develop and deliver high quality multi-professional simulation and skills based education to doctors in training, medical students, nurses and allied health professionals. 2.听听听听听 Take a lead role in the development and achievement of education research projects related to educational excellence and application to practice to support delivery of safe practice.听 听 3.听听听听听 Actively contribute to the design, development, piloting and evaluation of course programmes including technology enhanced learning. This will include taking a lead role in quality assurance of key advanced simulation programmes, ensuring courses respond to changing learner needs and curricula/commissioner requirements. 听 4.听听听听听 Contribute to the organisation of regular departmental research and 鈥渏ournal club鈥 meetings for simulation teaching and patient safety/human factors 听 5.听听听听听 You will have the opportunity to undertake a postgraduate certificate in medical education ( start autumn 2025) 听of which 50% funding is available, up to a maximum of 拢2000. 听 听 |
Working for our organisation
We are a multidisciplinary team including nurses, ODPs, AHPs, multimedia simulation technicians, Human Factors experts and an admin and operations team. You will be joining a flexible, supportive, positive, 鈥渃an do鈥 team that enjoys its work and operates without rigid hierarchy or unnecessary bureaucracy.
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Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is听 one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. We are, a large, complex, person-centred organisation with an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of patient care, research, education and innovation.听 For more information about the Trust, visit our
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Some of the benefits of working for our organisation include:
鈥⑻ Flexible working
鈥⑻ Opportunities for听 to be innovative/creative in the workplace
鈥⑻ Friendly and supportive work colleagues within the team
鈥⑻ Salary sacrifice schemes
- Cycle to work and travel
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust鈥檚 behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 鈥 MBBS or equivalent
- 鈥 Full GMC Registration with a License to Practice to practice
- 鈥 Completed Foundation training in a UKFPO by time of appointment or equivalent
- 鈥 Evidence of satisfactory / more than satisfactory progress through training, including an Outcome 1 at Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP
- 鈥 Evidence of clinical competencies in your specialty appropriate for your stage in training
Desirable criteria
- 鈥 Teaching qualification
- 鈥 ALS or ATLS Instructor
Experience
Essential criteria
- 鈥 12 months UK experience
- 鈥 Experience of acute and/or specialist medicine/surgery training
- 鈥 Evidence of interest in teaching and have some experience in undergraduate/postgraduate teaching.
- 鈥 Enthusiastic and experienced in teaching clinical skills in the workplace or training environment
Desirable criteria
- 鈥 Experience of designing and delivering high fidelity simulation based training
- 鈥 Experience of inter-professional learning
- 鈥 Human Factors in an educational setting
- 鈥 Experience of technology enhanced learning e.g. VR, AR
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 鈥 Evidence of effective team working and leadership, supported by multi- source feedback or workplace-based assessments
- 鈥 Ability to work collaboratively across grades, specialties and professions
- 鈥 Able to work both independently and as part of a team
- 鈥 Great interpersonal and communication skills that will enable you to: - articulate vision - communicate effectively - encourage ability - engage well with a variety of stakeholders - inspire and motivate
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Capacity to use logical / lateral thinking to solve problems / make decisions, indicating an analytical / scientific approach and, where appropriate, creativity in problem solving
- 鈥 Evidence of previous audit or quality improvement project.
Desirable criteria
- Participation in a clinically-based and/or educational research project with involvement at key stages (design, data collection, analysis, preparation of abstracts and final paper).
Planning and Organisational Skills
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Excellent organisational abilities
- 鈥 Ability to forward plan
- 鈥 Ability to keep on track to deliver sustainable outcomes
- 鈥 Time management and prioritisation skills
- 鈥 Adept in using MS Office (Excel; Word; PowerPoint) and advanced digital skills
Other
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Commitment to personal and professional development
- 鈥 Self-starter, motivated, shows initiative and enthusiasm
- 鈥 Able to move /lift relevant teaching materials aids as necessary for the delivery of teaching programmes
- 鈥 Able to move /lift relevant teaching materials aids as necessary for the delivery of teaching programmes
- 鈥 Occasionally able to start early/finish late, occasional weekend working
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brigitte Scammell
- Job title
- Director Trent Simulation Clinical Skills Centre
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01159249924
- Additional information
Giulia Miles, Business Development Manager [email protected]
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We encourage informal visits or discussions about this post - please do contact us if you are interested in finding out more.听
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