Specialist Simulation / AV Technician

Post holders will support the Clinical Leads & Educators to deliver a high quality education service across the Trust through the application of their specialist knowledge and skills, offering assistance and advice within their scope of practise to staff both internal and external to the department whilst being overseen by the Specialist Technician Team Leader. The post holder will work within the Clinical Skills, Resuscitation, Simulation and Surgical Simulation services., v Support the education management team in ensuring the smooth running of courses across educational pathway. v To present a positive image of education to all users and promoting it as a first class venue for learning and education, identifying and implementing service improvements in conjunction with the education senior management team. v Support the Clinical Education Department by setting up for courses, conferences and meetings that are held across the Trusts education function. v Provide support to the Rotational Technicians with stock management, control and ordering to ensure that stock levels across the department remain adequate. v Take a leadership role in the administration of the Trust-wide room booking system across the educational pathway, ensuring that rooms are fit for purpose and ready for use, under the guidance of the Specialist Technician Team Leader. v Liaise with different departments across the organisation as applicable to understand their AV requirements, providing guidance and assistance to support educational services. v Provide first line technical expertise for computer based multimedia systems and their components. v In conjunction with the Rotational Technicians, ensure that AV / Simulation kit / part task trainers are fit for purpose and in full working order, providing maintenance where required. Ensure reporting of any major faults to the Specialist Technician Team Leader as applicable. v Ensure classrooms are ready for educational delivery, with particular focus on ensuring that both high fidelity Simulation equipment & bespoke audio-visual equipment is functional ready to use. v Assist with the transfer of equipment across the department / wider organisation including pre-course set up where required. v Assist leaners or patients at large educational events such as ALS / LOCAS giving directions, escorting across the site or any other appropriate task. v On a daily basis, provide leadership for all technical elements of all courses, ensuring safe and efficient use of range of equipment and supplies including low, medium and high fidelity full body patient simulators, IT and audio visual equipment. v Have a full working knowledge of the role of a Simulation Technician including prepare equipment for training such as the application of moulage to give the illusion of injury and performing the role of the 'controller' during Simulated teaching scenarios. v The post holder should be able to perform all associated roles and responsibilities of the Rotational Technicians to ensure good resilience and mentorship within the department. v Have a good knowledge of the Health and safety legislation regarding AV equipment, providing advice on how the Trust can abide by this. v Through training, knowledge and experience provide video creation / editing functions as required by Clinical Education to ensure high quality clinical videos can supplement new / existing education. v Support the organisation to develop and deliver conference facilities v Assist the Specialist Technician Team Leader with the development and upkeep of the department's intranet / social pages., 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.

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent qualifications to include English and Mathematics at Grade C or above
• NVQ 3 or equivalent qualification
• Evidence of having undertaken continuous professional development, Demonstrable experience of having worked within an educational / NHS environment
• Experience of working with mannequins or part task trainers within an educational setting
• Experience of Simulation / AV Technical components and their application within Education
• Experience of leadership and creating a positive team culture
Desirable criteria
• Experience of stock taking / managing replenishment, Knowledge of MS Office applications
• Knowledge of video creation / editing or willingness to work towards, Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and build effective relationships.
• Application of discretion in handling sensitive / confidential information
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to work flexibility
• Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
• Committed to providing a high quality clinical education service
• Ability to work well in a small team, with good interpersonal skills and supportive attitude to colleagues well-being understanding the use of empathy and sensitivity where required
• Can utilise own autonomy within their scope of practise, Willingness to work flexibly at all LUFHT sites where required.
• Ability and willingness to undertake and successfully achieve further training as required for the role.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday. The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.