Senior Lecturer in Clinical Governance, Leadership & Patient Safety (EHT1159-0620)

About You 

We seek an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student experience.  You should have a relevant background and experience in clinical governance, patient safety and leadership and use appropriate underpinning strategies to inform teaching.

To be successful you will further enrich our student’s experience through your expertise and subject knowledge as evidenced through your qualifications and professional experience. In return, you will join a forward thinking and dynamic team that pushes the boundaries of curriculum development within the new Medical School.  You should have an established or promising research profile. Our research profile is expanding and our staff are required to engage in this activity and we have established research themes. The Medical School has a growing enterprise and CPD remit and you will also be required to contribute to the successful development and implementation of this. 

About the Role

The post is to support the expansion and development of The Edge Hill University Medical School at an exciting time in its evolution.   

Working across the Medical School, the successful candidate will play a key role in all aspects of programme delivery across the continuum of UG>PG provision.  Specifically, this post holder will support cross-school delivery of the Patient Safety, Quality Improvement (PSQI) and leadership themes that are embedded in our MBChB, MSc Physician Associate (PA) Studies, our 3 PGC/PGD/MSc Leadership Development and Management programmes and the PGC Medical Leadership. 

In January 2020, we were successful in securing the HEE (NW) contract for delivery of PG Medical Education and Medical Leadership CPD modules for clinicians and the successful candidate will also play a key role in the delivery of the medical leadership aspect of this contract as well as contributing to our CPD/Enterprise provision. 

The successful candidate will provide greater capacity/subject expertise to deliver on this provision, enhancing the student experience by providing excellent and effective teaching that is embedded in current, evidence-based practice, supporting students to achieve their full potential and preparing them for safe and effective practice throughout their clinical career. 

As related to the subject speciality outlined above, the successful candidate will be supported to develop a strong research profile. 

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

You will have access to a range of specialist development programmes and academic development opportunities along with an award winning and comprehensive staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017).  You will receive a full academic induction, be enrolled on our PGC Teaching in Higher Education (as deemed appropriate), benefit from the Edge Hill University CPD scheme (UKPSF) and our annual University Learning and Teaching day all to support your professional development. Additionally, the School and Faculty has a vibrant range of staff research, teaching and learning seminar programmes.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

We are recognised for our outstanding achievements in student satisfaction, staff engagement, graduate employment and innovation as well as our strengthening research profile, investment and growth. The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award also celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact:  Professor Clare Austin, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at Austincl@edgehill.ac.uk

Closing Date: 02 Jul 2020
Category: Academic