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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer – Nursing

Job details
Posting date: 01 July 2024
Salary: £37,099 to £54,395 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 July 2024
Location: Plymouth, South West England
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company: Plymouth Marjon University
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: R00954

Summary

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer – Nursing

Full time and part time opportunities available up to a total of 1.8 FTE. Please indicate in your application your preferred FTE.

Lecturer, Grade 7: £37,099.00 - £41,732.00 (pro-rated for part time hours)

Senior Lecturer, Grade 8: £42,978.00 - £54,395.00 (pro-rated for part time hours)

Introduction:
Plymouth Marjon University are seeking an NMC registered, experienced academic Lecturer/Senior Lecturer to join our ambitious team within the School of Health and Wellbeing. You will have extensive knowledge of the requirements of either adult, mental health or learning disability nursing and be able to evidence of your own expert skills in practice. It will be beneficial for applicants to have experience of academic practice in learning and teaching, leadership or research and knowledge exchange. You must be a strong team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will hold or be working towards a postgraduate qualification and professional teaching qualification. You will be teaching on our suite of nursing and healthcare education programmes, including on apprenticeship routes.

In this role, you’ll be based in the School of Health and Wellbeing, on our green campus in the north of Plymouth. Our current hybrid working policy means you can work from home or on campus, but you will be required to maintain strong campus links and be available on-site at least 3 days per week.

Responsibilities of this post will include:
• Developing and delivering a diverse range of teaching, learning and assessment activities;

• Active engagement and dissemination of research and knowledge exchange;

• Promote undertaking module leadership and engaging in the enhancement of learning, teaching and assessment practice;

• Support and work closely with our nursing students, enabling them to thrive whilst studying at Marjon;

• Use your expertise in clinical practice to ensure students are workplace and employer ready;

• Contribute to routine leadership and administrative tasks of the programmes;

• Create memorable and immersive experiences for students in simulated practice.

Marjon Reputation of Excellence:
We have continued to be recognised for our exceptional student experience. Our latest news is that we have been ranked Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2023 – a testament to our many years of high-quality teaching.

Within our undergraduate population, Marjon is currently ranked No 2 in England for Student Satisfaction (Complete University Guide 2024). We are ranked by our students in the Top 10 in the country for Student Support; Lecturers and Teaching Quality; and Career Prospects (WhatUni Student Choice Awards 2023). In the Good University Guide 2024 we are ranked Top 10 in England for Social Inclusion, Student Experience and Teaching Quality. The newly published Daily Mail University Guide 2023 ranked us in the Top 5 in England for Teaching Excellence. Our education programmes were ranked in the Top 5 in the UK by the Guardian Education Guide.

For postgraduate students, we were ranked first in the UK for assessment for the fourth year running (2020 to 2023). The University was also ranked 12th overall out of 101 other universities and scored 100% satisfaction rating for the quality of our education courses.

Supporting our people:

At Marjon, we are firmly committed to supporting every member of staff who works for us. Our Balance programme of health and wellbeing activities aims to help you to look after your physical health, nutritional health, mental health and social health.

We recognise that our recruitment might bring in staff who are new to higher education and are bringing knowledge and expertise from other fields and practice. We want to ensure that all our academic staff are appropriately qualified to teach in HE and have the confidence to do so; to support this, we offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) to all new teaching staff without an existing teaching qualification. This provides our new staff with an opportunity to develop their understanding and practice of learning, teaching and pedagogic research/research management in higher education, and enables us to maintain our high standards of teaching.

We’re big believers in the importance of work/life balance. Many of our employees work flexibly and they are able to apply for parental leave and time off for dependants. As well as this, Academic staff enjoy 35 days’ holiday, plus Christmas closure days and eight bank holidays. This equates to 45 (full-time equivalent) days. To view the full range of benefits we offer, please click here.

We are keen to hear from a diverse range of applicants to support our goal to realise every individual’s potential. We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’: candidates who declare a disability and who demonstrate on their application that they meet the essential criteria will be included on the shortlist. If you are considering relocating, you can read more about Plymouth here.

Closing date: Thursday 18 July 2024 (at 11:59pm)

Interview date: Monday 05 August 2024

How to Apply

To apply for this position and to access the form, please complete the University’s online application form: https://jobs.marjon.ac.uk/

Please note, we will only consider applications submitted direct to the University via the above website. We do not accept applications or CVs submitted via third parties.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY.

If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process, please contact the People Team on peopleteam@marjon.ac.uk.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.