Lecturer College of Health and Care Professions (Allied Health Professional)

The full-time starting salary is normally £42,860 per annum. This will be pro-rated in line with your working arrangement of 22.2 hours per week at 0.6 FTE.

Fixed Term (4 Years)

Part Time (0.6FTE) 

New and exciting opportunities are available to join the College of Health and Care Professions at Birmingham City University. These opportunities will provide you with the chance to impact on the growth of the health and care profession workforce and the College of Health and Care Professions. You would be joining an already established and dynamic College which supports a diverse academic community, with a track record of delivering excellent education and achieving high graduate employability across our disciplines. 

About the Role:

We are seeking an innovative, ambitious, and inspirational candidate to join our friendly team. The successful candidate will be experienced in education of all the HCPC registered health and care professions, and in supporting returners to work. It would be beneficial to have a track record in facilitating learning in multi- professional groups, in teaching or training, through online delivery methods, as well as face to face.  A passion and commitment to education, training, research and high-quality service delivery would also be beneficial.   

The campus provides a modern, vibrant learning environment which houses superb facilities including a telehealth suite and diagnostic imaging facilities. Our location at our City South Campus in Edgbaston is home to our Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences and in 2022/23 benefitted from a £3.75 million redevelopment of our health care skills hub including a state-of-the-art operating theatre, recovery suite, basic and advanced life support facilities and home simulation room with our newly installed Simbulance. 

What’s in it for you?

In return for your dedication and hard work, you will benefit from ongoing opportunities for personal and professional development, as well as the following key benefits:

• Opportunity for hybrid working.
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 40 days (including bank holidays and closure periods).
• Wellbeing advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Staff Benefits: Non-Pay Benefits: Birmingham City University (bcu.ac.uk).
• A supportive and collaborative culture and work environment, rooted in BCU’s values.

Main Responsibilities:

The post holder will design and deliver learning activities across the return to practice programme and the wider College using research informed teaching and learning strategies. This includes synchronous and asynchronous distance learning sessions, design and delivery of online and live simulations, using learning technologies such as Body Swaps, professional and academic skills with interprofessional groups of learners. Other responsibilities will include personal tutoring/professional mentoring, module coordination, marketing and promotion of return to practice, as well as playing a role in recruitment of students and learners. 

Successful candidate will be supported to develop their professional academic portfolio and research interests, including the opportunity to undertake our highly regarded Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE.

We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success. The University has an enviable reputation for providing quality, student-focused education in a professional and friendly environment. Our superb courses, state-of-the-art facilities, first-rate staff, and focus on practical skills and professional relevance is producing some of the country’s most employable graduates. We are proud of our reputation for excellence and are constantly developing and expanding our range of courses to meet tomorrow’s health care needs today. 

It is an exciting era for the professions, and we are keen to become national leaders in the delivery of education for the health and care professions. Candidate are sought that have the enthusiasm, passion and ambition to have a noticeable impact in developing health professions education and interprofessional collaboration. 

The successful candidate will have:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Desire to positively impact the student experience.
• Candidate must be registered with the HCPC.

Closing date for this post is Sunday 16th March 2025

Interviews Date: Monday 31st March 2025

The interview will be conducted in person

FACULTY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND LIFE SCIENCES

The Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences has a long and established history of delivering training for the education, health and social care professions. The Faculty benefits from close links with local NHS Trusts and healthcare providers, as well as schools and colleges throughout the Midlands, which ensure that our students are at the heart of innovation and developments in the health, social care and education sectors.

For further information about this role or for an informal discussion please contact Charlotte Burnside via charlotte.burnside@bcu.ac.uk.

Please click the below link to download the Job Description:

Job Description - Lecturer

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About Us

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

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