King's College London

About Us

King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development. 

The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power.  REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. 

For the last six years, King’s has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. 

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams. 

Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe. Our applied clinical and health research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for.

About The Role

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.

Reporting to Senior Simulation Technician, 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-4pm or 11am-7pm, moving and handling of heavy equipment, and occasionally provide weekend support.

This is a full time, 100% equivalent post (35 Hours per week), indefinite contract.

We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups including those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, the LGBTQI+ community, those who are neurodiverse and those with a disability.

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.

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Minimum level 3 qualification (e.g. A levels, AS levels, International Baccalaureate diploma or other level 3 qualification). 
2. Experience working in a simulation centre or similar role. 
3. Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting technology. Demonstrate analytical skills in troubleshooting technology and complex problems.   
4. 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. 
5. Ability to learn and apply learnt techniques/skills to the work context.+ 
6. 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. 
7. Ability to identify health and safety issues. 
8. 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

1. 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   
2. Experience of operating audio-visual systems e.g. SMOTs ™or similar audio-visual observation and training system.   
3. Working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation for the field of work, particularly in use of sharp tools and clinical waste disposal  

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information 

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.