Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £35,880 to £45,163 with potential progression once in post to £47,874

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract up to February 2026

We are seeking to appoint a highly regarded Teaching Fellow to join the dynamic and vibrant Department of Pharmacy. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who can contribute to the well-established educational excellence of the Department, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. A particular focus would be on supporting our established MPharm, in the delivery of integrated pharmaceutical science within our new curriculum.

The Department of Pharmacy is situated within the College of Medicine and Health facilitating close interdisciplinary working involving collaboration with science-based and clinical colleagues in Medicine, Dentistry, Biomedical Science, Nursing and Midwifery, and Physiotherapy. You will be working with highly experienced academics who can support your career development.

The successful candidate will make a substantial, key contribution to the undergraduate Pharmacy taught programme, focussing on the delivery of quality teaching and assessment across all years of the MPharm course and in line with the new training standards. Our MPharm programme is a well-regarded undergraduate programme, with around 600 students across the four years.

Role Summary

• Duties may include: 
  • contributing to the enhancement of the student experience and employability 
  • contributing to designing and quality enhancement of Pharmacy programmes 
  • consulting on the individuals’ own specialism, probably under the supervision of a project leader.

Main Duties

• Teaching science of dosage form design/delivery concepts at a range of levels within Pharmacy programmes to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated lectures, small group sessions and practicals, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
• Contributing to the design of Pharmaceutics modules with other colleagues.
• Planning and preparing personal teaching, including guidance notes and handouts (delivered both face-to-face and on-line) in accordance with the established objectives of the Pharmacy teaching programmes.
• Devising and supervising student projects, dissertations and practical work in the Pharmaceutics area.
• Developing an approach to planning and reviewing personal teaching.
• Undertaking the full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining in taught areas of Pharmaceutics. This will involve summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award (as a mark or as a credit) through unseen examinations, essays, dissertations and presentations. The assessment will be subject to validation by the academic supervisor.
• To frequently update personal subject expertise through appropriate scholarship.

Person Specification

• Higher degree relevant to the science of dosage form design/delivery or equivalent qualifications
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to design and deliver Pharmaceutics module materials successfully
• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes within the School of Pharmacy
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day personal activity that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

Informal enquiries to Anthony Cox, email: a.r.cox@bham.ac.uk 

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We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.

Closes: 10th February 2025

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