Simulation Technician

About Us

We are really pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as Simulation Technician for Simulation and Interactive Learning Centre.

Simulation and Interactive Learning (SaIL) at King’s College London is an entity within Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative care that operates and maintain dedicated and technology enhanced facilities spread across different locations at King’s.

Clinical education and learning are pivotal in developing and maintaining competencies in health care, by design, SaIL spaces incorporates all the elements required for technology enhanced, innovative education with a strong but not exclusive emphasis on clinical learning and simulation, serving all health faculties for healthcare simulation at King’s.

About the role

Reporting to Simulation Technical Specialist, working as part of the technical team, the role will provide support to academics in preparing and maintaining classrooms and clinical environment for the delivery of simulation-based education. You will also be responsible in operating, troubleshooting, and maintaining specialised equipment and technology available at the centres.

The role requires to provide cross-site technical cover and shift work variably between 8am-6pm or 9am-7pm, moving and handling of heavy equipment, and occasionally provide weekend support.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.

Interested candidates are warmly invited to come and visit the SaIL Chantler Centre, Shepherd’s House at Guy’s House to find out more – please refer to the contact details.

The simulation centres support extended operational hours with staff onsite between 8am and 7pm and occasionally at evenings and weekends.  This post will operate to a pattern of early/standard/late start times. 

This is a student-facing post requiring 100% on-campus working. 

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Minimum level 3 qualification (e.g. A levels, AS levels, International Baccalaureate diploma or other level 3 qualification)
• Experience working in a simulation centre or similar role
• Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting technology. Demonstrate analytical skills in troubleshooting technology and complex problems
• Strong planning, prioritizing & organisational skills, able to work on several tasks simultaneously under deadline. Ability to work as part of a cross functional team and individually to meet objectives
• Ability to learn and apply learnt techniques/skills to the work context
• Good communication skills, interpreting customer requests and applying knowledge of specialist clinical skills equipment to offer solutions. Understand and demonstrate good customer service skills with ability to work with different range of customer groups
• Ability to identify health and safety issues
• Willingness to undertake cross-site work with early starts (7am) or late finishes (7pm) regularly as required and the occasional weekend work (paid over-time)

Desirable criteria

• A broad range of technical or practical skills and a well-developed working knowledge of technical practices and procedures using a range of clinical training equipment and human patient simulators
• Working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation for the field of work, particularly in use of sharp tools and clinical waste disposal

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