Job Details

Simulation Standardized Patient

Position Number: 6826224
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type: Medicine - Nursing

Simulation Standardized Patient

Job Summary

Are you looking for a part-time job?
Are you looking to shape the nurses and doctors of the future?
Are you an actor or do you want to be an actor?

Simulation Participants or SP's perform the role of the "patient" during health care simulations or clinical skills trainings for learners in the College of Nursing Simulation center. SP's portray specific emotions, behaviors and disease symptoms while interacting with learners in the health care field during simulated patient encounters. SP's aid in establishing and maintaining fidelity and realism to each simulation.
You may participate in video productions, support voice-over for e-learning courses, photographs and other teaching material as required.

This is an ongoing job opening and we hire intermittently from this job positing.
Please apply at: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/194197

Responsibilities

Arrive on-time and fully prepared for all roles and shifts you accept.
Memorize a case script detailing specific emotions, behaviors, and disease signs/symptoms for presentation during simulated learning situations.
Present case information in a standardized manner, as elicited by students during simulated interactive patient history and/or medical examinations.
Remain in a specific patient character.
Embody roles with fidelity and realism.
Participate in group training.
Maintain confidentiality of information related to cases, student behaviors and feedback evaluations.
Provide educationally constructive verbal feedback from the patient standpoint when prompted by the facilitator.
Ability to be flexible in different medical and educational settings.
Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferences
Preferred but NOT REQUIRED:
Formal training and/or certification with experience in areas such as theatre, dramatic script, acting for film/TV and vocal performance or experience working in a variety of theatrical and multimedia settings is preferred but not required.

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN16650N
Full Time or Part Time? Part Time
Work Schedule Summary: Variable: based on your availability and the needs of the Simulation Center. You will be offered roles (shifts) that fit your availability. You may be offered a regularly recurring role or one-time roles as needed in the Simulation Center that you may accept or decline. You are expected to work all shifts you accept. You are expected to respond to email or other requests and accept at least 1 shift per month.
Department: 01647 - CON INTERMOUNTAIN HLTH SIM CTR
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: 20.00
Close Date: 3/30/2026
Open Until Filled:

To apply, visit https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/194201