Simulation and Clinical Skills Facilitator (EHA1941-1020)

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

You will be an enthusiastic and friendly registered healthcare professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student experience. It will be an exciting, interesting, varied and challenging role, which will require you to be adaptable, creative, supportive and organised, with a willingness to try new approaches. A background in clinical skills teaching and simulation-based education with supporting qualifications and experience would be an advantage.

In return, you will join a forward thinking and dynamic team that pushes the boundaries of curriculum development within the area of simulation and skills Education. This is a unique opportunity to work in a Simulation and Skills Education team that supports across the Faculty of Health, Social Care & Medicine

About the Role

You will be required to make a significant contribution to the delivery of our simulation and skills curriculum across the Faculty. The role will involve establishing and coordinating a simulated/standardised participant programme ensuring that participants receive training and feedback. This new position will also involve working with the Simulation and Skills Education team in identifying, designing and facilitating simulation and skills sessions which support the development of the student into a safe, competent healthcare professional. In addition, you will provide support and guidance to academic staff in using simulation-based education and will be involved in delivering faculty development sessions. 

Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 23 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday and University closure days per annum. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity. 

You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Helen Henderson, Head of Simulation & Skills Education at hendersh@edgehill.ac.uk 

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Closing Date: 31 Oct 2020
Category: Support