Associate Clinical Lecturer

Description:

In their role as an Associate Clinical Professor, the candidate will contribute at a senior level on a sustained basis to the whole range of teaching leadership and administration. In addition, the candidate will be expected to contribute to academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.

Teaching is likely to include: (a) development and leadership of major teaching programmes or equivalent; and (b) enhancement of the student experience or employability, that are of manifest benefit to the College and the University. It is expected that you will demonstrate a significant contribution to the advancement of teaching (policy, practice, standards) of the subject, provide leadership in teaching and learning that is innovative to the subject area or institution, with a significant contribution to the debate nationally about teaching.

Management and administration is likely to include Departmental/School leadership and management activity with University wide involvement – for example through sustained high value impact knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement or similar activities.

The candidate will also undertake clinical service as part of an honorary contract with the Birmingham Community Health Care Foundation Trust.

Main Duties

Education 

You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:

making a significant contribution to the pedagogical knowledge base of the subject that advances teaching through the enhancement of practice, the development of teaching resources and/or through practice-based research; 
leading on the management and the development of approaches to teaching and learning, including designing innovative approaches and supporting colleagues to use them in the subject area or institution;
leading on curriculum design at module and programme level to ensure it is contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging;
actively engaging students in curriculum design;
making an impactful, high-quality contribution to debates about education policy, methods and practices through internal and external publications, subject societies and conference activity;
developing an external profile evidenced through engaging in external quality assurance activities related to teaching, eg. external examining and engaging with/supporting education in other institutions;
where appropriate, playing an important and sustained role in the recruitment and admission of students; 
co-supervising doctoral students to completion; 
leading the development of teaching, learning and assessment policies and strategies;
 acting as an education mentor to colleagues in the School/Department/College or more widely; 
leading the development of new and appropriate approaches to learning and teaching. 
leading sustained high value impact in knowledge transfer and enterprise (including business engagement, public engagement) that enhances the student experience and/or or employability, and is of manifest benefit to learning and teaching in the College and the University
undertaking own teaching, which will include teaching and examining courses at a range of levels, planning and reviewing own teaching approaches, developing programme proposals, supervision, marking and examining. You will ensure that your teaching practice is informed by discipline-based research, through participating in the research culture of the School. 

Management/Administration

Lead activities in the Department/ School and represent the School on College/ University committees or working groups. Where appropriate to the discipline, this is likely to include some, but not all of the responsibilities listed below.

making an important contribution to the development and running of the Department or School, for example, leading activity on teaching assessment; 
 leading a successful international engagement at School or College level; 
developing and managing staff and resources in support of major teaching activities
making important contributions to the development of the Department’s (and the University’s) learning and teaching strategy
contributing significantly to the development and delivery of knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement and public engagement activities with sustained high value impact of manifest benefit to the College and the University in a teaching/education context;
develops and implements a culture (including policies and procedures) that promotes Equality and values diversity and inclusion
 leading, serving on and assisting the work of committees and task and finish groups beyond School/Department, e.g., Senate, Council, University Education or Research Committee etc.; 
 leading external committees, e.g., those associated with public/professional bodies or delivery of activities for an external body at an appropriate level, e.g., chairing sub committees associated with large elements of work; 
 leading/project managing a team to devise and implement a new and/or revised process (e.g. new programme or a recruitment drive);
making a sustained contribution to widening participation, schools outreach and/or public understanding of the discipline;
contributing to administrative activities within the University (e.g. appeals panels, working groups).