Job summary

The job purpose is to explore and create opportunities for the deployment of virtual reality technologies at EHAAT.

We are looking for a motivated and talented individual to help us create the new survivors of the future. You'll have a track record in virtual reality in the clinical setting, and a passion for innovation.

The role will help deliver on a new part of our strategy, focussed upon the use of VR technologies in cardiac arrest care, specifically, improving rates of bystander CPR and defibrillation.

Virtual reality technology is rarely used in the hyperacute phase of critical illness and injury. We anticipate that this fellowship will help define our organisational trajectory in this area of technological advancement by working closely with our highly experienced clinical leaders.

The post will be a collaboration with our industry partners, Medical Realities. With opportunities to benefit from the expertise of this leading healthcare organisation, the postholder will spend some of their time working alongside experts in Virtual Reality and the metaverse.

The responsibilities will evolve during the duration of the post from phases of exploration through to creating a strategy and then delivering in key agreed areas. EHAAT is committed to supporting the postholder in securing further funding for the project via academic routes together with deployment of the expertise of our charity team in applying for specific funding through specialised grants.

Main duties of the job

• Place a significant focus of working activity on our clinical community pillar, developing novel approaches to mass CPR and defibrillation education
• Adopt a structured academic approach to your clinically related work
• Work alongside our charity team to maximise opportunities for deployment of VR-related technology
• Maximise the opportunities for EHAAT to collaborate with universities that have a pedigree in this academic area
• Explore the global resuscitation community, looking for models of excellence in this area and critically evaluating their impact so that the appropriate opportunities can be targeted
• Attend regular meetings of the clinical and charity teams to embed your work within the day-to-day activity of the service
• Once your proposed strategy is agreed, progress to the implementation stage of this agreed plan
• Alongside our research and scholarship lead, provide scholarly descriptions of your activities that will impact widely, enriching the work of the wider medical community
• Give oral presentations at national and international conferences, symposia, and other events, demonstrating your work on behalf of EHAAT
• Contribute to our education programme, working closely with our education lead
• As this role intends to identify novel and innovative opportunities that represent the beginning of a journey for us, further objectives will be agreed throughout the duration of the post

About us

It is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you as you consider joining the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) and Centre for Excellence Team. This is an incredibly exciting time at EHAAT as we deliver the vision of the Centre for Excellence, to create a world-leading community through which pre-hospital care is developed to achieve the best possible outcomes for all patients.

There are four pillars to the Centre for Excellence; Research and Scholarship, Innovation, Education and Training, and Community. These pillars will support the three clinical domains of cardiac arrest, head injury and patient experience and outcomes.

Achieving clinical excellence sits at the centre of our ambitions with patient experience and outcomes encompassing all activity. Through a targeted research strategy across all threedomains, an active scholarship and academic programme, innovative means to train andeducate ourselves, our partners and our wider community and disseminating and sharing good clinical practice we aim to change the face of prehospital care within the region and beyond.