Senior Lecturer in Sport Therapy, Full time

The University of Roehampton is recruiting to the role of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sport Therapy to join our expanding team. This is an exciting time to join the team as we expand our sport and allied health provision, with new programmes including: Sport Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, providing you an opportunity to play a significant role in this growth.

This role is ideal for someone who has extensive subject expertise and professional practice experience in sport therapy as a practitioner and has experience leading, designing and delivery higher education programmes in this field. The successful candidate will thrive in an environment where they work inter-professionally and can continue to practice and research, whilst providing an outstanding student academic experience to develop high quality graduates in the field. Leadership, passion, solution focussed, and the ability to communicate and nurture development are key qualities of interest. The successful candidate will be the lead sport therapist upon appointment and therefore, provide leadership in this field to guide the development and delivery of the new sport therapy provision within the School. They will collaborate with colleagues to work inter-professionally to deliver our wider Life and Health Sciences provision and remain active in their profession.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Deliver teaching that encompasses employer and skills-led experiential learning and professional development
• Engage in high-quality teaching and learning, research and/or knowledge transfer which demonstrably impacts on practice, generates external income, and contributes to the University’s Enabling Strategies
• Participate in and help develop external networks for the benefit of the University and appropriate areas of teaching, scholarship, research and knowledge transfer.
• Engage in the development of new pathways for student learning, e.g., apprenticeship degrees, accelerated degrees, credit accumulation and top ups, multiple entry points, and blended and online at undergraduate and postgraduate levels

The successful candidate will have skills and experience in:

• extensive experience of teaching at university level or significant professional experience
• ability to increase and diversify our income through successful grant capture from external sources, industry investment, research and IP consultancy, CPD, and/or short course provision
• extensive experience of teaching at university level in an interdisciplinary manner with evidence of delivering high levels of student satisfaction and outcomes or extensive professional experience of working across multiple teams with evidence of delivering high levels of end user satisfaction and/or outcomes
• established industry/third sector/public sector and professional networks that will make a positive contribution to the student experience

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Further information can be found on the job description. If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity, please click on the ‘apply’ button.

If you have any specific questions on the role, please contact Dr Sally Akehurst, Dean of Life and Health Sciences.

The University is committed to promoting diversity and equality of opportunity and aims to create a culture and environment where students and staff are treated fairly. The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

The closing date for completed applications is: 1^st October 2023

It is expected that interviews will be held on 30^th October 2023

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