Professor of Nursing

Job description

The Faculty of Life, Science and Education is seeking to appoint a full-time Professor in Nursing to work within the Health, Care and Well-being Research and Innovation Group (HC&W-b RIG). 

USW has a strong reputation for producing highly impactful and applied research with 81% of our research activity classed as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (4/3*).

Our vibrant, impactful research is contributing to solving real problems faced by our society, and our multidisciplinary research teams collaborate with industry, communities, and organisations to make a positive difference to lives. Our research is focused around four accelerator areas: Crime, Security, and Justice; Health and Well-being; Creative Innovation; and Sustainable Environment.

Our activity in HC&W-b RIG focuses on hard-to-reach populations, disadvantaged groups and co-morbidity, in a range of physical and mental health conditions, underpinned by along and proactive record of engagement with external stakeholders including patients, carers and families; policy makers; and industrial/ commercial partners in health and social care. In UoA3 REF21, all of our health research impact was internationally excellent and we were joint first in the UK for impact.

The post-holder will be a research leader and able to provide academic leadership of the growing research portfolio with line management of academic staff engaged in teaching, research, and enterprise. You will have a PhD, a proven track record of attracting externally competitive research funding, publications, and research student supervision. Working with Faculty colleagues you will inspire best practice, acting as a key leader and expert advisor. You will be an authority in community nursing, have a strong profile in education, research and innovation, who will benefit from the excellent relationships that we hold with our partners across the university, health, social care, and commercial sectors. You will inspire junior colleagues and provide excellent mentorship opportunities to enable them to develop.

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