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Ansök senast: 2024-06-23
Lecturer in Health and Social Care
Job Title: Lecturer in Health and Social Care
School/Function: School of Higher Education
Responsible to: Programme Leader/Head of School
Responsible for: Teaching on their specialist subject to students
Job Description:
Overall Purpose:
The role of Lecturer in Health and Social Care in the School will be required to design, develop, and produce learning and teaching material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will be face to face and has responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific module or unit engage with the module, fulfil their potential in terms of achievement of learning outcomes and enjoy a high quality student experience. In addition, a lecturer may work more across a programme to support students in their learning journey.
Specific duties and responsibilities
Teaching and Learning
The post holder will:
- Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lecturers, seminars, tutorials within Health and Social Care.
- Maintain attendance registers for teaching sessions and work with the attendance team to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered for students on digital registers.
- Deliver/facilitate teaching sessions in line with the approved programme and module specifications
- Work in line with Digital provisions including VLEs and MS Teams.
- Ensure that students are engaging in their sessions
- Develop teaching materials for modules.
- Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
- Make suggestions through appropriate channels how to improve student academic experience.
- Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.
Assessment and Marking
The post holder will:
- Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submissions of assessments for all modules on time.
- Support the production of assessments for module/unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures.
- Participate in standardisation and moderation meetings as required.
- Provide students with formative feedback as appropriate
- Mark summative assessments according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published by the Assessment Team.
- Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.
Student Support
The post holder will:
- Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
- Field any pastoral requirements students may have, signposting them to relevant specialist College services as necessary.
- Monitor the progress of individual students’ Learning Support Plans, liaising with specialist services as necessary
Person Specification
Experience and Personal Qualities:
Essential:
- Experience or knowledge of quality assurance and validation of Health and Social Care HE modules / programmes.
- Experience or knowledge of higher education and ability to use a range of delivery techniques to inspire and engage students
- Significant experience within a subject area relevant to the School
- Positive attitude to colleagues and students
- Communicate information effectively, both verbally and in writing, engaging the interest and enthusiasm of the target audience
- Ability to influence, collaborate and interact effectively with a range of stakeholders including staff (at all levels), students and others.
- Ability to provide expert guidance to students and other work areas and to develop understanding and resolve complex problems.
- Ability to achieve key performance indicators through persuasion and negotiation where no direct authority exists.
- Ability to respond and adapt with agility to often rapidly moving events and developments in both the school and College
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including networking and relationship building skills, both across the University and externally
- Able to demonstrate both independent self-management and team working
- Able to work with competing priorities and to tight deadlines
- Demonstrates competences, core behaviours and supplementary behaviours that support and promote the University’s core values
- Flexible to the needs of others
- Innovative and creative
Education and Professional Qualifications
Essential:
- Master’s degree in relevant subject discipline
- Fellowship of the Advanced Higher Education (HEA) or willingness to work towards (within 12 months)
- Sufficient breadth and depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop teaching programmes and the provision of learning support.
- Experience of teaching, curriculum development and quality management and enhancement in an HE environment.
- Appropriate digital skills in learning, teaching and assessment
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