Education and Simulation Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role provides advanced technical support for educational delivery and events within Medical Education Leeds and the wider Leeds Teaching Hospitals estate. You will prepare teaching environments, ensuring audio-visual equipment, clinical skills trainers, simulation devices, and virtual reality equipment are functional. The technician supports faculty and learners in using complex simulation technology, contributes to course development, and offers expert technical advice. The role involves managing workload, troubleshooting hardware/software, and handling animal tissue for surgical courses.
Essential criteria
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Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Our Team, primarily based at St Jamess University Hospital, with a small base at the Leeds General Infirmary, consists of two other Education and Simulation Technicians plus the Lead as well as two porters, and an AV Technician. Together we organise and support simulation training post graduate courses from Foundation Year all of the way up to Consultant level across a range of specialties. We collaborate closely with clinicians throughout the Trust to consistently provide high quality ongoing education.
Educational events range from managing simulated patients with robots such as 3G SimMan, both in the department and in-situ, as well as surgical courses that we provide animal tissue for (typically pig), keeping the role varied.
For this role you will need to be comfortable with handling animal tissue and their internal organs.
You will also work closely with our administration team who arrange the trainees and faculty for each course.
Our Team, primarily based at St Jamess University Hospital, with a small base at the Leeds General Infirmary, consists of two other Education and Simulation Technicians plus the Lead as well as two porters, and an AV Technician. Together we organise and support simulation training post graduate courses from Foundation Year all of the way up to Consultant level across a range of specialties. We collaborate closely with clinicians
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