Apprentice Clinical Simulation Technician

Summary

An exciting opportunity to join our innovative SimSpace team within the Postgraduate Medical Education department. This exciting role offers the opportunity to support cutting-edge simulation-based education for medical staff and allied health professionals.

Annual wage: £23,615 a year
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Training course: Education technician (he assistant technician and simulation-based technician) (level 3)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week including 6 hours per week study time for the apprenticeship, Monday to Friday 8am-4pm
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Friday 1 November
Duration: 2 Years 6 Months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Participate in simulation sessions and courses: set up scenarios using high-fidelity mannequins and equipment, operate simulators during training sessions, potentially act in scenarios if required
Equipment management and maintenance: assist in maintaining all simulation-related equipment, set up and take down equipment for teaching sessions, operate audio-visual equipment and video recording systems, diagnose minor faults and recommend solutions for equipment performance
Resource management: Help order consumables and training equipment, monitor and replenish training course scenario boxes, medical and resuscitation trolleys, manage a 'training equipment loan service' across the trust
Technical support and training: provide advice and training on simulation equipment use to internal and external users, assist in designing and adapting equipment for simulations and skills training
Administrative duties: support course booking and record-keeping,
produce documents and resources for simulation activities,
manage medical gas supplies within Trust policies
Customer service: provide excellent service during phone, face-to-face, and digital communications, liaise with course directors, team members, and faculty

Where you’ll work

Southmead Hospital

Westbury on Trym

Bristol

BS10 5NB

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

HAMPSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Your training course

Education technician (he assistant technician and simulation-based technician) (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Identify, prepare and lay out/set up relevant required materials/ equipment /machinery /tools using relevant protocols/Standard Operating Procedures for the purposes of teaching, learning or research activities within their area of responsibility.

Clearing up materials/ equipment /machinery /tools using relevant protocols and Standard Operating Procedures specific to clearing up.

Work safely, complying with relevant Health and Safety and local regulations or policies and protocols, escalating issues where relevant.

Demonstrate or facilitate and supervise the use of materials/ equipment /machinery /tools and equipment to meet the needs of the audience

Respond to specific enquiries about appropriate protocols and Standard Operating Procedures, basic techniques and equipment and their safe use and being able to escalate to senior technical colleagues when further clarification is required

Manufacture, construct or assemble both standard and bespoke components and demonstrate how these components integrate into larger teaching, learning and research systems and equipment.

Use creative thinking and problem solving to build on existing or new ideas in the teaching, learning or research environment based on expertise and context.

Monitor and deliver key activities such as reactive maintenance and where required repair of equipment, safety compliance, infection control during a practical class and completing accurate records in relation to the activity.

Identifying the needs and then fulfil the needs of a person or group requiring information, documentation or resource - such as a student unsure of a piece of equipment during a laboratory, studio or workshop teaching session.

Carry out basic repairs in line with specified protocols/Standard Operating Procedures and keep accurate records where appropriate. Refer more complex or critical repairs where appropriate.

Planning, monitoring and maintaining appropriate stocks of materials and equipment including budgeting and costing as required.

Prepare documentation and materials for all types of wider teaching or learning or research activities and events as required.

Communicate with key stakeholders (such as students, academics, clinicians or research staff, the general public, businesses, professional services staff and technical colleagues) using a range of techniques such as email, visual posters, verbal instructions to support teaching, research, wider activities.

Use and apply current and emerging technologies and techniques such as microscopy, 3D printing, robotics, use of lasers or light to create a range of images, automated screen printing, or virtual reality to support teaching, learning and research.

Working at times under time pressure to raise and resolve areas of concern such as malfunctioning equipment, always working safely and to best practice.

Being able to adapt to changing priorities related to both their own work and to the organisation, showing the flexibility to maintain high standards in a changing environment.

Organising own work and achieving required results within deadlines.

Apply safe working practices such as manual handling, risk assessments and infection control audits.

Facilitate, support and participate in internal or external events such as conferences, exhibitions, public engagements and open days.

Evaluate the delivery of demonstrations or facilitation for relevant activities such as setting up bespoke equipment for a practical demonstration by getting feedback from students, colleagues and make changes to practise as identified and appropriate.

Undertake data collection, data analysis, data presentation and date storage, in line with legislation, local policies and procedures, such as room usage, student footfall, inventories of equipment or experimental data.

Use of IT technologies such as management information systems

HE only: Deliver end to end equipment and resource management processes in order to identify the resource needs for their area of responsibility for higher education teaching and research activities.

HE only: Provide technical support for higher education activities such as experiments and demonstrations

HE only: Attention to detail when collating or producing information for higher education activities such as teaching and research.

SBE only: Identify, prepare, and apply the relevant moulage/special effects make-up to achieve the required results

SBE only: Demonstrates scenario coding (programming and running of scenarios using the appropriate hardware and software)