This normal covers two associated occupations. A Greater Training (HE) Assistant Technician will work inside greater training establishments corresponding to Universities. They may sometimes work in one of many following tutorial settings: utilized science, engineering, arts and humanities, environmental science, sports activities science, performing arts or healthcare science. A Simulation-based Training (SBE) technician could also be employed and work inside NHS Trusts, greater training establishments or inside business or in non-public services on a consultancy foundation.
SBE technicians will sometimes work in a expertise and simulation centres, medical and non-clinical areas and convention or occasion venues.
Each occupations present useful technical help to tutorial or healthcare skilled in studying, educating or analysis
The broad goal of each occupations is to supply expert technical help in educating, studying and analysis environments throughout their respective sectors to personnel corresponding to academics, healthcare professionals, lecturers, educators, researchers and college students. That is achieved by demonstrating and utilizing strategies, supplies, gear, and equipment; collating and deciphering knowledge or analysis outcomes and offering particular documentation and assets that help and improve educating, studying, or analysis actions, occasions or productions.
Of their each day work, an worker in both of those occupations interacts with a variety of inside and exterior colleagues, together with their wider crew and organisation (together with enterprise, finance and IT departments), college students, producers and suppliers. HE Assistant Technicians are sometimes based mostly in both an educational led educating area, laboratory, studio theatre or workshop, working with al degree corresponding to college students, lecturers skilled companies employees, with SBE Technicians sometimes based mostly in simulated medical environments or medical areas (to facilitate in-situ simulation) with all ranges such a nurses, Well being Care Assist employees and Docs People in both occupation could have to journey to work throughout websites (e.g. different areas of a college or belief or to a shared laboratory or facility) or externally to attend conferences and coaching programs referring to utilizing advanced gear and strategies.
An worker in both of those occupations will likely be chargeable for: managing and endeavor routine upkeep of ordinary and bespoke gear, inventory management and housekeeping to make sure educating, studying and analysis environments are, and stay, match for goal; contributing to the event of recent and generally advanced instruments, strategies and educating, studying and analysis improvements (corresponding to growing a brand new piece of apparatus, construction or course of to help analysis experiments or inventive follow); supporting lecturers, healthcare professionals and researchers by figuring out issues with gear, procedures, processes, experiments and providing design options; and getting ready the educating, studying and analysis surroundings by, for instance, demonstrating the gear and contributing to ongoing analysis and steady enchancment.
The occupations additionally require enter to price range setting in relation to the prices and required performance of particular gear, and a few supervision of scholars and learners, for instance when utilizing of a brand new piece of apparatus.
Along with these widespread features, every occupation has some distinctive duties.
Relying the setting they work in, HE assistant technicians additionally arrange and assemble normal and bespoke gear or assets for educational led analysis, educating experiments/investigations or inventive/inventive approach; present recommendation and steering on the usage of these assets, supplies, gear designed to boost college students or researchers understanding of their use in an educational setting; present applicable representations of data derived from tutorial led experimental work or inventive course of, and manipulate them into applicable codecs, for publication or shows.
SBE technicians additionally help supply of coaching periods utilizing simulated studying for topics corresponding to life help, creating moulage/particular results make-up to use to manikins and actors working as simulated sufferers to boost the realism and the medical accuracy of particular person situations; endeavor the situation coding (programming) and subsequent operation of human affected person simulators, half activity trainers and different modes of simulation to make sure the standard and realism of the simulation is achieved.
All of those duties have to be undertaken inside outlined high quality, well being and security and environmental rules and necessities, with minimal supervision.
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Medical simulation technicians
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Simulation technicians
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Data
K1: Which supplies, gear / equipment / instruments, are wanted for educating, studying or analysis actions.
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K2: The related protocols and Customary Working Procedures for educating, studying or analysis actions, why they’re utilizing them and the context during which they’re utilizing them. This contains procedures for laying out supplies for sensible and/or analysis actions and protocols and normal working procedures associated to clearing up following sensible and / or analysis actions.
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K3: The related well being and security laws, environmental rules and follow, the context during which they’re utilized and the way and when to escalate considerations.
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K4: How their position suits into the organisation and the influence that it has.
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K5: The completely different approaches and strategies required to show or facilitate for various audiences.
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K6: The right way to troubleshoot conditions, methods, gear or equipment and when and methods to escalate points associated to conditions or methods or gear or equipment.
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K7: The ideas of housekeeping and its goal together with the implications of non-compliance, the necessity to preserve correct data and the suitable channels accessible to handle a problem.
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K8: The aim of the monitoring and upkeep schedule, how rules, methods and procedures help the exercise and the implications of non-compliance.
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K9: Protocols and Customary Working Procedures particularly in place for fundamental repairs to gear, when to escalate repairs which are extra advanced and the suitable place to escalate them to. This contains an understanding of why it is very important maintain correct data of apparatus with their restore and repair historical past and the right channels to make use of when addressing points recognized by way of monitoring and upkeep.
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K10: Native operational methods and the software program that’s required to help them together with inventory management administration, budgeting and upkeep of data.
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K11: The significance of the vary of actions that help occasions and key actions associated to inside or exterior occasions corresponding to conferences, exhibitions, public engagements and open days.
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K12: Communication strategies and approaches to work together with a spread of key stakeholders in an effort to meet their necessities together with the ways in which present and rising applied sciences can help communication.
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K13: The ideas of analysis and the channels for steady enchancment.
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K14: Knowledge safety, confidentiality, knowledgeable consent and safeguarding.
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K15: Analysis course of, together with moral and governance processes, and the ideas and governance of audit.
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K16: Protected working practices corresponding to handbook dealing with, danger evaluation and an infection management audits.
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K17: SBE solely: Interpret studying outcomes for simulation-based training, together with medical expertise programs corresponding to Life Assist and the position simulation and the surroundings performs in reaching these outcomes
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K18: SBE solely: The strategies, gear and supplies used and making certain their secure use to create moulage/particular results make-up functions to manikins and actors working as simulated sufferers
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K19: SBE solely: Interpret studying outcomes and their relevance to programming and working of situations utilizing numerous modes of simulation
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K20: SBE solely: State of affairs programming and operation of related {hardware} and software program for differing modes of simulation corresponding to operation of human affected person simulators, half activity trainers and so forth.
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K21: SBE solely: The underpinning ideas of the position of simulation, methods to design medical expertise coaching programmes together with programme goals, studying outcomes, educating plans, and the way studying outcomes hyperlink to evaluation.
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K22: HE solely: The number of gear and assets used of their space of duty throughout the greater training sector and the other ways during which they help college students and researchers
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K23: HE solely: The potential wants and necessities of various stakeholders inside their space of duty of upper training corresponding to scholar teams and researchers
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K24: HE solely: Strategies and sequences related to experiments, analysis and different actions corresponding to organising, assembling and offering steering on normal or bespoke gear or assets for analysis or educating.
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K25: HE solely: How representations of data are used for educating and analysis in greater training.
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K26: HE solely: The method of collating applicable info, corresponding to experimental knowledge or reasonable visualisations, derived from tutorial led experimental work or inventive course of, and the ideas behind methods to manipulate them into applicable codecs (tables, figures, catalogues, indices, and portfolios) for publication.
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Abilities
S1: Establish, put together and lay out/arrange related required supplies/ gear /equipment /instruments utilizing related protocols/Customary Working Procedures for the needs of educating, studying or analysis actions inside their space of duty.
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S2: Clearing up supplies/ gear /equipment /instruments utilizing related protocols and Customary Working Procedures particular to clearing up.
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S3: Work safely, complying with related Well being and Security and native rules or insurance policies and protocols, escalating points the place related.
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S4: Exhibit or facilitate and supervise the usage of supplies/ gear /equipment /instruments and gear to fulfill the wants of the viewers
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S5: Reply to particular enquiries about applicable protocols and Customary Working Procedures, fundamental strategies and gear and their secure use and with the ability to escalate to senior technical colleagues when additional clarification is required
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S6: Manufacture, assemble or assemble each normal and bespoke parts and show how these parts combine into bigger educating, studying and analysis methods and gear.
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S7: Use inventive pondering and drawback fixing to construct on present or new concepts within the educating, studying or analysis surroundings based mostly on experience and context.
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S8: Monitor and ship key actions corresponding to reactive upkeep and the place required restore of apparatus, security compliance, an infection management throughout a sensible class and finishing correct data in relation to the exercise.
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S9: Figuring out the wants after which fulfil the wants of an individual or group requiring info, documentation or useful resource – corresponding to a scholar not sure of a bit of apparatus throughout a laboratory, studio or workshop educating session.
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S10: Perform fundamental repairs according to specified protocols/Customary Working Procedures and maintain correct data the place applicable. Refer extra advanced or vital repairs the place applicable.
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S11: Planning, monitoring and sustaining applicable shares of supplies and gear together with budgeting and costing as required.
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S12: Put together documentation and supplies for all sorts of wider educating or studying or analysis actions and occasions as required.
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S13: Talk with key stakeholders (corresponding to college students, lecturers, clinicians or analysis employees, most people, companies, skilled companies employees and technical colleagues) utilizing a spread of strategies corresponding to e mail, visible posters, verbal directions to help educating, analysis, wider actions.
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S14: Use and apply present and rising applied sciences and strategies corresponding to microscopy, 3D printing, robotics, use of lasers or gentle to create a spread of photos, automated display screen printing, or digital actuality to help educating, studying and analysis.
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S15: Working at instances below time stress to boost and resolve areas of concern corresponding to malfunctioning gear, at all times working safely and to finest follow.
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S16: Having the ability to adapt to altering priorities associated to each their very own work and to the organisation, displaying the flexibleness to keep up excessive requirements in a altering surroundings.
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S17: Organising personal work and reaching required outcomes inside deadlines.
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S18: Apply secure working practices corresponding to handbook dealing with, danger assessments and an infection management audits.
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S19: Facilitate, help and take part in inside or exterior occasions corresponding to conferences, exhibitions, public engagements and open days.
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S20: Consider the supply of demonstrations or facilitation for related actions corresponding to organising bespoke gear for a sensible demonstration by getting suggestions from college students, colleagues and make modifications to practise as recognized and applicable.
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S21: Undertake knowledge assortment, knowledge evaluation, knowledge presentation and date storage, according to laws, native insurance policies and procedures, corresponding to room utilization, scholar footfall, inventories of apparatus or experimental knowledge.
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S22: Use of IT applied sciences corresponding to administration info methods
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S23: SBE solely: Establish, put together, and apply the related moulage/particular results make-up to realize the required outcomes
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S24: SBE solely: Demonstrates situation coding (programming and working of situations utilizing the suitable {hardware} and software program)
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S25: HE solely: Ship finish to finish gear and useful resource administration processes in an effort to establish the useful resource wants for his or her space of duty for greater training educating and analysis actions.
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S26: HE solely: Present technical help for greater training actions corresponding to experiments and demonstrations
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S27: HE solely: Consideration to element when collating or producing info for greater training actions corresponding to educating and analysis.
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Behaviours
B1: Seeks out alternatives for Persevering with Skilled Improvement (CPD).
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B2: Works collaboratively with others.
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B3: Work safely always prioritising well being and security good follow.
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B4: Accountability and possession of their duties and workload
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B5: Be open to vary, amend working practices in response to suggestions or modifications in course of.
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