Job description

The School of Nursing & Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast, is currently seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to the post of Lecturer in Adult Nursing.

Established in 1991, Queens School of Nursing & Midwifery provides a range of innovative programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level, which prepare nurses, midwives and healthcare professionals for leadership roles in clinical care, teaching, management and research.

With approximately 3,500 students, the School has one of the most extensive portfolios of programmes of any nursing and midwifery school in the UK or Ireland.

The overall vision of the School is to provide a learning community committed to excellence in teaching, research, scholarship and practice that contributes to local and global efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of society.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a key contributor, providing a high quality, exceptional and transformative educational experience to students in an innovative and high-tech learning environment.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake research in line with the School’s research strategy, to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to contribute to School administration/outreach activity.

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate you have:

• Doctoral degree in Nursing / Midwifery or related healthcare subject.
• Research experience and profile which complements the research priorities and strengths of the School with:
• A minimum of 3 years research experience in a relevant field.
• A publication record (or be about to publish) in peer reviewed journals /conference papers.
• Experience of developing research methodologies, models, approaches and techniques (AC3 only).
• Experience of presentations at national and international meetings and conferences (AC3 only).
• Relevant teaching experience at University level commensurate with stage of career.
• Relevant academic administrative/management experience commensurate with stage of career.

Please note the above are not an exhaustive list. For further information about the role including the essential and desirable criteria click on the 'Candidate Information' link below.

At Queen’s our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a staff member you will become part of a vibrant organisational culture, which will provide you with the opportunity to achieve your full potential and enhance your career through a continuous focus on learning and development.

We offer an excellent employment package that includes:

• Great terms & conditions
• Pension schemes
• Flexible working by enabling you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager through a blend of remote and office working
• Family-friendly initiatives
• Career development opportunities
• Support for health & mental wellbeing
• Generous holiday entitlement of 8 weeks a year (made up of 23 days annual leave, 10 closure days and 9 bank holidays.

Queen’s University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all and the School are proud holders of a Silver Athena SWAN Award. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can reach their true potential and in which male and female have equality of opportunities for career development and learning.

We actively encourage males to the nursing programme to dispel the view of nursing as a female profession and to increase the number of men in healthcare.

We have created an inclusive culture by establishing staff networks such as iRise (Race) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. We also subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI in addition to Athena Swan. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit: www.qub.ac.uk/diversity; www.qub.ac.uk/qgi and www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffGateway/StaffNetworks/.

Candidate Informaton 
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Gillian Carter at g.carter@qub.ac.uk
About the School
Attractive reward package
Further information for international applicants