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Lecturer (Academic Education Pathway [AEP])

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£45,026 - £54,534 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
18 Dec 2020

Job Details

Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Midwifery teaching team at King's College London teaching students on our innovative pre-registration BSc (Hons), MSc and CPD programmes and modules.

Passionate about midwifery and education, the postholder will demonstrate an ability to inspire the next generation of midwives. Devoting 80% of their time to focus on educational excellence they will be knowledgeable about different forms of teaching and learning and confident in their clinical skills and experience.

Academic citizenship through academic related activities that underpin excellence in education will be an expectation of the role as well as the promotion of education research conducted within the Department and Faculty.

The Department of Midwifery comprises staff who are actively engaged in education, research, and service development across a range of areas relevant to the field. We have a diverse team of clinical teachers, teaching fellows, lecturers, senior lecturers, and an internationally renowned professor. Our staff specialise in a range of areas including caseloading, maternal complexity (obstetric and medical), arts and humanities and Newborn care. Their varied experiences give students a unique insight into the day-to-day challenges and achievements of Midwifery practice. Although many staff have decades of experience, we also have more recently qualified midwives in the Department bringing fresh ideas, challenging our thinking and helping us move forward.

The department delivers innovative and creative evidence-based education as part of continuing personal and professional development to a large number of trusts and independent health care organisations across London. A number of departmental staff are members of national and international bodies committed to the development of midwifery research, education and policy. Clinical experience for undergraduate and post-graduate pre-registration midwifery students is provided in partnership with leading NHS Trusts in London.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.
This is a full-time post - 1.0% full time equivalent.

Key responsibilities
The post holder will:

  • develop educational content and engage in progressive methods of delivering programmes in order to promote the Faculty's national and international educational strategy.
  • have responsibilities for developing education that is clinically relevant across different settings
  • have a clear forward plan for developing pedagogy within the Faculty in line with the College Education Strategy.
  • act as a personal tutor and link lecturer for students
  • contribute to critical review, audit and other quality assurance issues.
  • commit to actively contributing to enhance a positive, enthusiastic learning culture for all staff and students.
  • demonstrate a desire to further develop their individual profile in
  • professional practice in line with College and Faculty education strategies.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria

  • Educated to Masters Level
  • Has a qualification in education or a track record of teaching/education in midwifery
  • Current professional registration as a midwife with the NMC
  • Knowledge and credibility in midwifery
  • Able to lead and manage change
  • A flexible, energetic self-starter able to engage actively with students, team members, the wider College and other potential collaborators in developing a programme of teaching and education research
  • Has a vision for the future of midwifery and educational preparation of the next generation of midwives

Desirable criteria

  • A teaching qualification or a willingness to undertake a teaching programme during probationary period.
  • Knowledge and skills in curriculum development
  • Knowledge of educational theory and practice
  • Experience of participating in simulation as a teaching method
  • Experience of working as a midwife in a clinical leadership role
  • A developing profile of academic publication in recognised journals
  • Experience of teaching UG/PGT students in a University environment
  • Experience of University governance and academic administration
  • Prepared to teach outside UK for short periods, in line with the Faculty's international strategy

Further information

Interviews will be planned for mid-January.

This advertisement does not meet the requirements for a Certificate of Sponsorship under Home Office regulations and therefore the university will not be able to offer sponsorship for this role. 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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