We are seeking an experienced, proactive and highly organised Technician to oversee the effective day-to-day operation of Surrey Clinical Simulation Centre, Clinical skills facilities and specialist psychology facilities such as XR/VR labs across the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. This is a key role supporting teaching and research activity across the Schools of Health Sciences, Medicine and Psychology. 

The successful candidate will act as a main point of contact for technical services, working closely with academic and professional services staff, students, external suppliers and wider University stakeholders. You will ensure that laboratory, Clinical Skills and Simulation spaces, equipment, technical support and health and safety processes are managed to a high standard, enabling excellent teaching, and research outcomes.

This role would suit an experienced Clinical skills/Simulation manager or technical services professional with strong leadership skills, sound technical knowledge and a commitment to delivering a safe, efficient and student-focused service.

About You

The successful candidate will have experience of managing and overseeing clinical skills, simulation, specialist teaching, or research facilities, ideally within a higher education, healthcare, psychology, life sciences, or related environment.

You will be confident in coordinating day-to-day operational activity, managing and supporting staff, assisting facility users, and ensuring that facilities are maintained to high standards of safety, compliance, accessibility, and service delivery.

Experience of working within teaching or learning environments would be advantageous, along with an understanding of the need to deliver high-quality support in a busy, fast-paced setting. You will be highly organised, able to plan effectively, manage competing priorities, and respond flexibly to changing operational demands.

The role will require regular communication with a wide range of stakeholders, including students, academic colleagues, professional services staff, and external partners. You will therefore bring excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a proactive and solutions-focused approach, and the ability to build positive working relationships across a diverse community.

Key Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Experience of managing clinical skills, simulation, teaching, research, or other specialist facilities.
• Strong operational coordination and organisational skills.
• Experience of managing or supporting staff and facility users.
• A good understanding of health and safety, compliance, and service standards.
• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and solve problems proactively.
• A flexible, adaptable, and solutions-driven approach.
• Experience in higher education, healthcare, psychology, life sciences, or a related environment would be desirable.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to play a key role in supporting high-quality teaching, research and simulation activity.
• A collaborative working environment across Schools, Faculty teams and professional services.
• Access to professional development and training opportunities.
• The chance to contribute to safe, modern and effective technical facilities that support students, staff and researchers.

How to Apply

To apply, please upload your CV and a cover letter outlining how your experience and skills meet the requirements of the role. You will also be asked some brief questions to help us understand your suitability for the position.

Closing Date: 20 Aug 2026

Area: Technical & Experimental

Salary: £37,694 to £46,049 per annum

Central to our ambitions is the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, home to 650 staff and 5,500 students across five Schools: Biosciences, Health Sciences, Medicine, Psychology and Veterinary Medicine. Building on our unique diversity in health professions and sciences, our aim is to develop an integrated research workforce with a core ethos of team science to drive substantial growth in our research activity and impact. 

The Faculty delivers high quality research, learning and teaching, supported by excellent facilities and technical expertise.  In REF 2021, our UoA3 ranked highly for research power. The Faculty is uniquely placed to play a defining role in the delivery of Vision 2041.

The Opportunity

We are now seeking an exceptional research leader to take up the role of Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. This senior leadership appointment will shape and have overarching responsibility for the strategic direction of research and innovation across the entire Faculty. A central priority will be to lead the refresh and delivery of the Faculty’s Research and Innovation Strategy, ensuring alignment with the University’s Vision 2041, the developing pan-University Institute for Future Health, and future REF ambitions.

As a key member of the Faculty Executive Team, you will lead a research and innovation mission built around delivering measurable improvements in human and animal health, and dependent on breaking down the boundaries between disciplines, and between knowledge and its application. From infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance to cardiometabolic health, healthy ageing and the future of clinical care, in this role you will have the platform, the ambition and the institutional backing to ensure our research is bold, internationally competitive and genuinely transformative.

The successful postholder will be an established professorial academic with a sustained record of research excellence, significant income generation and demonstrable external impact in a discipline relevant to the Faculty. An inclusive and collaborative leader, you will be able to set a compelling strategic direction, lead through influence, use evidence and data to drive performance, quality and impact, and build partnerships with relevant external organisations including funders and healthcare providers.

Why Surrey

You will be joining a diverse, welcoming and genuinely collaborative community, at a university with the ambition of a rising global player. This is an opportunity to take up a role of real strategic significance, to lead, build, and to define the future of health research at an exciting moment for the University.

This is a permanent Professorial level academic appointment, with the ADR&I role responsibility held for an initial period of five years with potential for a further extension. Following completion of the ADR&I tenure the post holder will return to a standard academic portfolio, although further leadership roles will offer opportunities for continued career progression. We welcome applications from all academic areas represented within the Faculty, and the ADR&I role attracts a pensionable responsibility allowance.

How to Apply

Global executive search firm Perrett Laver have been appointed to support the University of Surrey in this appointment. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further or have any questions about the role, including requesting documentation in an alternative format, please contact Devin Dattan at Devin.Dattan@perrettlaver.com

To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter detailing how you fulfil the role description and specification, to https://plusportal.perrettlaver.com/ quoting reference 8568. From here you can request more information, including the full recruitment pack.

The deadline for applications is 23.59BST on Monday, 31^st August 2026. 

Interviews will take place Thursday 24th September.

The University of Surrey is committed to an inclusive environment offering equal opportunities for all and particularly encourages applications from under‑represented groups.

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Closing Date: 31 Aug 2026

Area: Research & Teaching

Salary: Competitive Salary