Lecturer in Social Work

Full time – 37 hours per week

Closing date 13/07/2025 at 23:30

The role

Here at Sheffield Hallam University we are recruiting for a Lecturer in Social Work with specialist adult social work expertise to teach across undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD levels.

In one of the largest providers of social work / social care education in the UK, you’ll be working with a large, vibrant community of academics, practitioners and researchers with a commitment to providing high quality, research-informed teaching, to ensure active learning.

Our innovative portfolio of programmes reflects sector changes within the wider social care arena at a national level - informed by new professional standards, interprofessional learning and excellent links with employers in the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors reflected including membership of the South Yorkshire Teaching Partnership.

Our portfolio includes a Foundation Degree in Working with Children, Young People and Families, alongside qualifying Social Work programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. These are complemented by a range of CPD and collaborative provision. The courses offer creative opportunities to work in partnership with colleagues in the school, across other Colleges within the University and with employers and other external agencies including international partners.

You will have a broad academic remit including teaching, assessments, supporting students and scholarly activities across the undergraduate and post graduate curricula.

You will teach students from other professions, and we are particularly interested in someone who has worked in an integrated way in practice.

The School/Team

The School of Health and Social Care delivers a well-established, large and diverse portfolio of undergraduate, postgraduate and degree apprenticeship courses leading to registration in 14 different professions.

We support practitioners to continue to develop their professional roles through our extensive continuing professional development portfolio; our graduates working in local, national, and international health and social care sectors.

Our research portfolio is cutting edge and applied, undertaking challenge-led collaborative interdisciplinary research, innovation and knowledge exchange to inform and transform health and social care.

The social work, social care and community studies team is made up of approximately 13 colleagues who are based in the School.

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