Teaching Fellow

Teaching Fellow
UE07 - £35,333 - £42,155 Pro Rata
CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute
Contract type: part time (3.5 Hours per week each post)
Fixed Term available from now for 24 months
2 posts

The on campus MPH programme at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Teaching Fellow.

The Opportunity:
The Master of Public Health Programme at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh seeks two experienced Teaching Fellows to be responsible for planning, organising and delivering postgraduate level teaching for designated courses on the on campus MPH programme.

We require part time Teaching Fellows with the relevant specialist experience and technical skills to deliver two courses (one Teaching Fellow per post):

- Epidemiology for Public Health which requires relevant experience of public health practice
- Developing and Evaluating Complex Public Health Interventions

Both Teaching Fellows will also contribute to other courses as tutors, within the time available within the post.

Your skills and attributes for success:

- Relevant experience and technical skills for the required courses
- Understanding of the key principles of teaching, learning and assessment
- Experience of teaching at Masters level
- Empathy and ability to support students

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Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

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**Work with us | Usher Institute **_- where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world. _**

Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences is one of three Deaneries in Edinburgh Medical School which, together with the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, makes up the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The Deanery is headed by Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley and comprises the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM), the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, the Division of Pathology and the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit. The Deanery currently attracts annual research grants of around £40M, including a number of full programme grants, and has around 630 employees including 39 Professors, over 260 other academic members of staff and 330 members of support staff. The Deanery operates across three University of Edinburgh sites; the Western General Hospital campus, the Central Area, and Little France. Staff contribute undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and offer on-campus and on-line programmes. There is a vibrant PhD community in both IGMM and the Usher Institute.

Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences