Teaching Fellow

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

Hours: Part Time (18.75 hours per week)

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to February 2028

Background

We are seeking to recruit a registered nurse (adult, 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). 

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]).
• Promote equality and value diversity acting as a role model in the simulated and classroom context fostering an inclusive working and learning culture. 
• Frequently update own subject expertise.
• Undertake personal professional development in teaching and learning, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning practice. 
• Undertake management/administration activities arising from the planning, delivery and assessment of learning.
• Contribute to Departmental/School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.
• Contribute to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities that has of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.

Person Specification

• Bachelor degree in a healthcare or cognate discipline
• Registered Nurse (RN) child, adult or mental health field or dual qualified with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Working within a Healthcare setting with the option to maintain links where possible to maintain clinical currency whilst in the TF 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

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Lucy Kelsall-Knight, email: l.m.kelsall-knight@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: 12/02/2025 

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