Nursing Teaching Fellow

Location: Birmingham

Hours: Part Time (18.75 working hours per week)

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to August 2027 

We are seeking to recruit a registered nurse (mental health, and/or child)  to contribute to supporting the University of Birmingham (UoB), School of Nursing and Midwifery (SoN&M) expanded undergraduate and postgraduate pre-registration nursing portfolios. You will join a team who are working to ensure our students continue to receive excellent clinical skills and simulation-based learning. 

The school offers a range of routes leading to registration including a three-year Bachelor of Nursing, a four-year Master of Nursing, and a two-year postgraduate MSc programme. The school also offers a range of programmes aimed at qualified practitioners including Advanced Clinical Practice, independent prescribing, and an MSc Midwifery (RN to RM). 

Role Summary

• Contribute to all teaching and learning, particularly clinical skills and simulated practice across all nursing 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. 
• Provide high quality learning and teaching activities, materials and presentations based on sound educational principles. 
• Engage in student assessment, evaluating educational activity and maintaining safe learning environment

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 School’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

• Bachelor degree in a healthcare or cognate discipline
• Registered Nurse (RN)  child, or mental health field or dual qualified with the Nursing and Midwifery Council 

Pre-employment DBS

The University is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice, therefore all associated pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. Due to the nature of the work undertaken in this role all successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory DBS clearance prior to appointment.

Informal enquiries to Steven Grant s.grant.4@bham.ac.uk  or Dr Tracey Valler t.b.valler@bham.ac.uk 

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