Professor/Senior Clinician in Soft Tissue Surgery

6 days ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom University of Glasgow Full time

Job Purpose

To deliver an exceptional Soft Tissue Surgery veterinary service by providing expertise and clinical activity in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine. To enhance and develop the delivery of clinical teaching to undergraduates, clinical scholars, and to undertake clinical scholarship, thereby contributing to the School's objectives relevant to national and international excellence in clinical service, teaching, and research.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical:

  1. To provide high-quality specialized discipline and appropriate advice to external referring practices and owners, maintaining a clinical referral workload necessary to support commercial, teaching, and research activities.
  2. To support the development of novel approaches and techniques to aid diagnosis and treatment, exploiting opportunities to enhance the income generation capability of the service.
  3. To participate in the out-of-hours service, ensuring adequate cover is available for the provision of direct supervision, advice, and expertise when required.
  4. To contribute to the implementation and validation of clinical quality assurance measures.
  5. To support the planning, organization, and delivery of training requirements of the clinical scholars, by supervision of clinical duties and research projects, with a view to their successful completion of appropriate Board examinations.
  6. To participate in practical/professional and/or clinical practice bodies related to the service area at national and international level as appropriate.
  7. To ensure compliance with the continuing professional development requirements of the appropriate speciality and the RCVS.
  8. To participate in promotional activities and events relating to the Small Animal Hospital.

Teaching:

  1. To engage in the planning, organization, and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching activities, and the Clinical Scholar didactic programme within veterinary medicine in accordance with established programme.
  2. To support and encourage the development of creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning, in accordance with the University's Quality Enhancement Strategy, so that the educational opportunities available to students are maintained or improved.
  3. To deliver a range of assessment activities and engage fully in the examination process as appropriate, (using a variety of methods and techniques) and provide effective, timely, and appropriate feedback to students to support learning.

Clinical Scholarship:

  1. To conduct personal scholarship of an external reputation and maintain a consistent output of publications in high-quality refereed clinical journals and/or textbooks.
  2. To collaborate in appropriate clinical scholarship projects/trials through a portfolio of individual/joint research projects and to present findings at national and international meetings to ensure a high profile for the School, as well as the University of Glasgow.
  3. To attend and actively participate in national/international events/research seminars/conferences within the service area.

Administration:

  1. To contribute to the administrative work of the Hospital/Division as assigned by the Clinical Director/Head of Division.
  2. To contribute to the performance and development review processes as appropriate in accordance with university strategy.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

Essential:

  • A1 Veterinary degree registerable with RCVS.
  • A2 Prior training and experience in Soft Tissue Surgery.
  • A3 Further post-graduate specialist clinical qualification relevant to Soft Tissue Surgery.
  • A4 An excellent record (by international standards) of research in small animal cardiology.
  • A5 An established reputation in, and insight to, an internationally competitive field of research.

Desirable:

  • B1 Masters, PhD (or other evidence of research training).
  • B2 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Skills:

  • C1 Expertise across the field, corresponding to training and qualifications, and ability to provide advice to clinicians, external veterinary surgeons, research bodies, and organizations.
  • C2 High standard of communication skills both orally and written.
  • C3 Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • C4 Self-motivated, able to plan for contingencies and think strategically.
  • C5 High standard of presentation skills.
  • C6 Ability to accept collegiate responsibilities and act accordingly.
  • C7 Proven leadership and motivational ability in teaching and the ability to actively lead clinical teams as appropriate.
  • C8 Understanding and experience of databases and other IT applications/packages.

For appointment at Grade 10:

  • C9 Ability to generate research questions from diagnostic workload.
  • C10 Commitment to teaching quality enhancement.

Desirable:

  • D1 Understanding and experience of statistics, databases, and other IT applications/packages.
  • D2 Experience in budget control and financial management.

Experience:

Essential:

  • E1 Post-graduate clinical experience in Soft Tissue Surgery of a sufficient standard to meet the credentials of a clinical accrediting board.
  • E2 Teaching experience relevant to the HE sector.
  • E3 A track-record of clinical publications.
  • E4 Extensive experience in Soft Tissue Surgery.
  • E5 An established reputation as an advanced clinician in Soft Tissue Surgery.
  • E6 An established reputation in clinical research and a major contributor in the Soft Tissue Surgery.
  • E7 Successful supervision/career development of post-graduate students studying for clinical diplomas.

For Appointment at Grade 10:

  • E8 Extensive academic/professional experience in subject specialism.
  • E9 Proven university teaching experience including assessment and curriculum development.
  • E10 Research programme and project management experience.
  • E11 Experience in leading and successfully implementing change.
  • E12 Performance management.
  • E13 Strategy planning, development, and implementation.

Desirable:

  • F1 Successful supervision/career development of post-graduate students studying for clinical diplomas.
  • F2 Record of award of competitive grant funding for clinical research.

Special factors:

Essential:

  • G1 Promotion and commitment to, equality and diversity within the School, College, and University environment.


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