Teaching Fellow - Midwifery

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822

Hours: Part Time (18.75 hours per week)

Background

The post holders will support the delivery, design, evaluation, and assessment of the undergraduate and postgraduate clinical skills and simulated practice teaching and will work together with academic and professional services colleagues to develop online learning resources and assessments to support skill enhancement and simulation-based learning. If new to higher education successful applicants will be encouraged to pursue a postgraduate qualification in higher education. 

They will work closely with the nursing and midwifery and advanced clinical practice programme directors, lead for simulation-based learning, academic staff, and the Head of Education to optimise the design, delivery and assessment of programme outcomes. Post holders will be accountable to the Head of Department of Nursing And Midwifery.

Role Summary

• Contribute to all teaching and learning, particularly clinical skills and simulated practice across all nursing, midwifery and advanced practice programmes (under the supervision of an academic member of staff).
• Demonstrate professional integrity by acting as a role model for evidence-based, inclusive, person-centred simulated clinical practice so learners can mirror accountability, professional values, and appropriate delegation. 
• Work with learners to develop clinical skills integrating theory to practice, developing an understanding of safety and risk minimisation and effective person-centred communication. 

Main Duties

• Teach courses at a range of levels to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through practical demonstration and simulation, and if required formal lectures and seminars, so that the Department’s learning objectives are met.
• Contribute to the design of content, modules and operationalisation of curricula with other colleagues.
• Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the programme and University best practice.
• Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and skills/simulated clinical learning.
• Develop an approach to planning, reviewing and evaluating own teaching.
• Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to providing formative and summative feedback, supervision, marking and examining. (This will include assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as objective structured clinical examinations [OSCEs]).

Person Specification

Essential

• Bachelor degree in a healthcare or cognate discipline
• Registered Midwife (RM) or Registered Nurse (RN) child field with neonatal experience and the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) course
• Working within a healthcare setting with the option to maintain links where possible to maintain clinical currency whilst in post 
• Evidence of interest in the use of high-fidelity simulation-based learning and support the development of others to optimise learning through simulation based learning
• Hold or willingness to undertake postgraduate qualification in higher education /Fellowship Higher Education Academy

Preferred

• Higher degree relevant to healthcare or cognate disciplines, research or teaching or equivalent qualifications 

Informal enquiries to Tracey Valler, email: t.b.valler@bham.ac.uk 

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