In a nutshell

Title: Subject Matter Expert: Autism

Location: UK (Remote)

Days/week: Flexible - to be discussed

Rate: DoE

The Who, What, Where, When & Why

OMS are looking for an experienced professional or advocate with expertise in Autism/Neurodivergence. Ideally, you have experience across acute care settings with both children and adults, bringing practical knowledge and compassion to your work. You will work with our Authoring team to advise on the creation of virtual scenarios for nursing students focused on neurodivergence (initially autism).. By partnering with us, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping training content, ensuring it meets clinical standards and represents the needs of the healthcare workforce and autistic population.

This is an ad-hoc contract role, beginning with a concentrated period of work to lay the groundwork for the project. As the project progresses, you’ll engage in regular communication to answer follow-up questions, review updates, and provide feedback by playing through the scenarios to ensure they meet the highest standards.

Who you are:

We are open to various backgrounds, including:

• Healthcare professionals such as Nurses, Midwives, Physicians, or Acute Care Physiotherapists.

• Experienced patient advocates, including caregivers, parents, or individuals with firsthand experience navigating acute healthcare as a person with autism.

• You have a solid understanding of the challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals in healthcare settings and are passionate about improving outcomes through innovative training.

What you’ll be doing:

• Advise on the design of  scenarios focused on people with autism

• Collaboratively review the content with the OMS clinical authoring team to ensure that:

  • Scenarios meet the needs of the nursing and wider healthcare workforce

  • Content is based on latest best-practice guidelines

  • The neurodivergent characters and/or their carers are accurately represented. 

About Oxford Medical Simulation

OMS helps health systems, hospitals, medical and nursing schools deliver training and assessment better, cheaper, faster and at scale.

Our award-winning simulation platform is transforming the way healthcare and educational institutions train, assess and recruit healthcare professionals. By combining cutting edge 3D visualisation with artificial intelligence and leading educational theory, OMS delivers all of the benefits of physical simulation whilst delivering significant savings and improving patient care.

Founded in 2017 and commercially launching the award-winning OMS Platform in late 2018, OMS has experienced rapid growth with deployments spanning more than 100 Healthcare institutions around the world including the NHS, NYU, Oxford, Health Education England and the world’s #1 pediatric hospital.

OMS was named in the Top 50 Tech Companies 2019 by Business Cloud and was a finalist in the Global VR Awards 2019 & 2020. We have also been shortlisted for the Go Tech Awards 2021.

Oxford Medical Simulation is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Oxford Medical Simulation is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Who we are

We are Skiers / Boarders, Runners, Rowers, Pilots, Magicians, Weavers, Photographers, Game heroes, Movie Buffs, and every other variety of people. We are hard working. We are passionate about what we do. We care about the work. We care about each other. We care about pushing the envelope and we care about using our working lives to make the world a better place.

We value these behaviours above all:

1. Care & Pride - we take care and pride in everything we do

2. Growth mindset - we push the boundaries so we are adaptive, inventive and always learning

3. One Team - we are in it together, mucking in and supporting each other with humour and humility

Sound like you?