Assistant Professor

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Registered Nurse (Children & Young People) with community and critical care experience, to join our successful and highly committed teams delivering high quality education to the children and young people's nursing workforce, both pre and post qualifying. Previous experience of teaching and leading is highly desirable and your application should detail your areas of clinical/teaching experience and expertise. Experience as a Community Children's Nurse and critical care experience would be an advantage.

The Department provides high quality, research-rich education using a variety of innovative teaching and learning methods delivered at all academic levels from undergraduate to doctoral study. It also boasts a state-of-the-art clinical skills centre.

You will be expected to facilitate teaching, learning, and assessment, and engage in student support for our pre-registration programmes and other relevant post-registration programmes.

We are looking for an individual with expert, contemporary practice knowledge, committed to leadership, teaching and scholarship to advance healthcare practice in this area.

Further information about the Assistant Professor (Practice) role is available in the job description.

Part-time and Secondment arrangements will be considered.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 therefore the successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health is one of five departments within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. We are a thriving community of academics and professional support staff who are committed to empowering each other and students to be the best they can be, and ultimately improve the lives of people within our local, national, and international reach. Successful candidates will be joining an incredible, innovative team.

The Department is proud to educate health and social care students from all corners of the globe in Foundation, Undergraduate and Post Graduate studies. We have five active research groupings:

• Health Economics and Applied Statistics
• Implementation and Innovation research
• Living Better in Later Life
• Veterans and military families' hub
• Workforce Education and Practice Development

ABOUT YOU

The post holder will work flexibly with the team to contribute to teaching, learning, assessment, and scholarship. They will participate in supervision, planning, designing and development of undergraduate and postgraduate health programmes in their relevant discipline. They will provide expertise to further enhance scholarship, research and entrepreneurial activities.

You must possess excellent knowledge of the subject area and have active professional registration with the UK Nursing & Midwifery Council or Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC). Possession of a Master's degree is desirable.

You must be able to demonstrate contemporary expert specialist knowledge and subject expertise within the relevant discipline/practice areas ensuring that the curriculum reflects the latest developments within practice.

Experience of designing, delivering, assessing, and evaluating high quality teaching and learning practice, and evidence of contributions to the development of contemporary practice are essential.

Further information about the requirements of the Assistant Professor (Practice) role is available in the person specification.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jane Callum CYPN Subject Lead, jane.callum@northumbria.ac.uk or Nursing Head of Subject Tony Conner Tony.Conner@northumbria.ac.uk .

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance .

This opportunity is open to applications from internal candidates who do not hold a current substantive academic role at Northumbria. Current academic colleagues with a substantive role are encouraged to consider options to progress via the Academic Development Review process.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV. Please ensure your CV includes research / education statements, and grants and publications list highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of four. For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount, and your role. In addition, you are asked to provide copies of the top two research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio).

ABOUT US

Northumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education's University of the Year in 2022.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience.Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more .

Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence;Innovation;Inclusivity;Collaboration; andAmbition.

Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleaguesfrom a range of roles across the University, whoworked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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