Lecturer in Social Work

The University of Brighton Social Work department is seeking a member of staff to join the team. Your expertise and experience will contribute to the delivery of high-quality social work education in the School of Humanities and Social Science. The team is particularly looking for a social worker or social work academic with experience of delivering social work education or training to students and/or apprentices. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team of social work academics, based in a new home for the school at the Moulsecoomb campus in Brighton.

You should be able to draw on foundational social work knowledge and experience as a basis for delivering the core social work curriculum alongside your specialist area across our undergraduate, postgraduate, and post-qualifying programmes. Applicants will be expected to engage with teaching, assessment, student support and development, both academically and on placement, and knowledge exchange/research. 

To be effective in this role, you will need: 

• A degree in social work.
• Registration as a social worker or be eligible for registration. 
• Competent IT skills and effective use of IT for teaching and learning

The University is committed to an inclusive environment which embraces equality and diversity in our working, learning, research, and teaching environment. The social work team takes seriously its commitment to creating a learning environment which is anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive and to foster these attributes in our graduates. We are seeking colleagues who understand equality, diversity, and inclusion, and how these principles can be applied in higher education, and within social work practice settings. We value self-awareness, in terms of understanding of the applicant's own culture, identity, biases, prejudices, power, privilege and stereotypes, as well as a willingness to challenge practices that present barriers to different groups in social work education. 

This is a permanent post and job sharers are welcome to apply. The earliest possible start date will be 2nd September 2024. Informal enquiries are welcome to Dr Kelly J Alexander, social work subject lead, via k.j.alexander@brighton.ac.uk. 

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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