Senior Lecturer in Clinical and Professional Practice

Are you a Pharmacist Educator with experience in leading education initiatives? Are you looking to integrate your knowledge base of pharmacy and contribute to the delivery of pharmacy undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes? If so, we would welcome an application from you.

Our flagship undergraduate programme is the 4-year Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree course. In addition, we are renowned for our taught postgraduate pharmacy programmes, especially the Independent Prescribing programmes, accredited by a range of healthcare regulators.

The Medway School of Pharmacy is a collaboration between the Universities of Greenwich and Kent, based on the joint Medway campus of both Universities, which is located next to The Chatham Historic Dockyard.

The Medway School of Pharmacy has a vibrant research programme over a wide range of research areas arranged in three cognate areas (Biological Sciences; Chemistry and Drug Delivery; Clinical and Professional Practice) and a large postgraduate research student and research associate body. 

As a Senior Lecturer in Clinical and Professional Practice you will lead on the placement competency within the MPharm programme, contribute extensively to the design and delivery of the taught programme and modules and teach in the area of clinical and professional practice. 

You will have a background in Clinical and Pharmacy Practice and you will contribute extensively to the design and delivery of the MPharm linking this to placement experience. The primary function of this role is to develop the Medway School of Pharmacy provision of placements within the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) course, along with the provision of support for foundation year MPharm graduates (viewing this as a 5-year curriculum).

As Lecturer in Clinical and Professional Practice you can expect to be involved in:

• Leading the continuing development and delivery of placements within the MPharm programme, including aligning this to curriculum design and taught content, ensuring this is fit for purpose, and is quality assured (Placements Lead).
• Leading appropriate and effective training of placement supervisors.
• Delivering high quality teaching on the taught programmes within the Medway School of Pharmacy.
• Collaborating with placement stakeholders, and colleagues in the Medway School of Pharmacy, taking on appropriate management and administrative responsibilities.

What will you bring to the role?

• First degree in Pharmacy 
• Registration with the pharmacist regulatory body (GPhC/PSNI) 
• The ability and willingness to contribute to the day-to-day running of the school commitment to personal continuing professional development

What we can offer in return:

As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You'll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including:

• 43 days' leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff)
• Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health

For more information about what you can look forward to if you join us, visit our dedicated webpage: Working at Kent

For further information regarding the application process, please contact peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting reference number MSOP-006-26

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