Simulation Assistant

**Competition Number**
- P16422

**Posting Title**
- Simulation Assistant (student position)

**Classification**
- Band 6

**Location**
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic Saskatoon Campus

**Other Location(s)**

**Building**
- Saskatoon Campus, Idylwyld Dr.

**Other Building**
- Ontario Avenue

**Date Posted**
- 04/15/2025

**Closing Date**
- 04/30/2025

**JIQ #**
- 010- JEQ Under Review

**Start Date**
- 05/05/2025

**End Date**

**Open Until Filled**
- No

**Ongoing**
- No

**Category of work**
- Casual

**Bargaining Unit**
- Professional Services

**Hours of Work**
- To be Assigned

**Salary Range**
- $28.82 per hour

**Temporary Market Stipend**

**Incumbent**

**Total Assigned days (AC) / Total Hours per biweekly pay**
- This is a casual position; work will be assigned based on program needs. Less than 30 occasions.

This casual list will go until June 30, 2025 and then successful applicants will be invited back to join the 25/26 casual list, which will run from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.

**Posting Status**
- Open
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic considers the diversity of our workforce to be one our leading strengths and greatest assets. Our employee diversity enhances our ability to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. Currently, approximately 20% of our students are Indigenous. A continued emphasis on the development of a representative workforce is one of Sask Polytech’s strategic priorities and, as an organization, we are making significant efforts to attract and retain Indigenous employees.

**Job Duties/Qualifications, Skills and Abilities(QSA)**:

- Job Duties

**Job Duties**
- 1. Prepare and present supplies and equipment for specific events, e.g. instillation of fluid compartments of simulators, dressing bundles, simulated sutures, wound care simulators, heat sealed instruments.
2. Dismantle and store supplies and equipment following simulation events/scenarios.
3. Assist the technician with the physical preparation and dismantling of simulation equipment.
4. Assist with orientation of new simulation assistants to Simulation Learning Centre.
5. Collaborate with Simulation Learning Centre coordinator for the acquisition of supplies and equipment, purchasing, storage and provision of lab supplies and equipment, including bi-annual inventory count.
6. Perform product and vendor research.
7. Assess supply and equipment product suitability, availability, program value and performance in relationship to the objectives of the Simulation Learning Centre.
8. Assist the technician with the physical preparation and dismantling of simulation equipment.
9. Establish and maintain working relationships (both national and international) with counterparts from other educational institutions, simulation lab professionals, vendors, community representatives, health industry/education leaders.
10. Work as a member of the Simulation Learning Centre team.
11. Liaise with faculty and health region representatives regarding current standards of practice, policies, procedures and preferred products.
- QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE

**Specific Accountabilities**

**Duties**

**Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities (QSA)**
- 1. Completed two years of Bachelor of Nursing program and intent to complete program.- 2. Strong understanding of medical terminology and current knowledge of procedures and consumable medical products used in healthcare and in simulation.- 3. Training or experience at the introductory level in the use of MS Office suite.- 4. Effective communication (listening, oral, written) skills.- 5. Good analytical and organizational skills.- 6. Ability to work cooperatively within a team.- 7. Ability to take initiative and work independently with mínimal supervision.
8. Demonstrates valuing diversity.

**Desired QSA