Senior Lecturer (Community Specialist Practice Programme Lead)

Salary: £42,978 - £54,395 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
Closing Date: 29-09-2023 12 Midday
Support/Academic/Management: Academic

We are looking to recruit a Senior Lecturer with contemporary knowledge of specialist community and social care nursing who has professional experience as a senior practitioner.

The successful applicant will be the programme lead for the MSc (Hons) Community Specialist Practitioner programmes, which will be validated and approved by the university and NMC in spring 2024 to run as MSc fulltime and apprenticeship programmes from September 2024.

Our facilities include state-of-the-art skills and simulation facilities compromising a fully equipped 6 bedded hospital ward, immersive technologies 360-degree video room, community care room, skills training spaces, anatomy rooms and modern and spacious lecture and study spaces. 

Our programmes’ curriculum is focused on preparing practitioners to develop their role or innovate their practice and our philosophy is to work in partnership with students, academics, researchers, users of services, to deliver high quality learning and teaching based on contemporary research findings for specialist community practice and prescribing.

You must have expertise in engaging in post-registration nursing education with sound pedagogical foundations and be able to offer inspirational learning and teaching to students. You will be working with an outstanding team of nursing and health lecturers, plus support service staff in Moss House and McIntyre House.

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification for further details. 

Closing Date - Friday 29 September 2023 at midday 

Benefits: 

• Generous allocation of annual leave
  • 38 days’ paid leave per year
  • 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
• Excellent Teachers’ Pension Scheme
  • Employer Contribution – 23.6%
• Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
• Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
• Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
• Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
• A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including car, technology and cycle. 
• Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Free on-site gym membership

Standard information:

All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.

UCB is an equal opportunities employer.

University College Birmingham is proud to have been voted top in the International category in the prestigious 2023 Whatuni Student Choice Awards. We were also awarded silver in the University of the Year category. The awards are voted for and by students showcasing the incredible relationships we foster here at University College Birmingham between Staff and Students. 

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UCB has a unique collaborative partnership with the University of Warwick - Ranked sixth in the 2022 Guardian League Tables and named the runner-up in the Times University of the Year 2022 and the Times University of the Year 2022 for Teaching Quality.

All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service prior to commencement.

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