Lecturer in Health and Social Care

Job title:

Lecturer in Health and Social Care

Company:

Regent College London, part of the Regent Group

Job description

Specific duties and responsibilitiesTeaching and LearningThe post holder will

• Teach a number of sessions each week, including lecturers, seminars, tutorials.
• Maintain attendance registers for teaching sessions and work with the attendance team to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered for students on digital registers.
• Deliver/facilitate teaching sessions in line with the approved programme and module specifications
• Work in line with Regent Digital provisions including VLEs and MS Teams.
• Ensure that students are engaging in their sessions
• Develop teaching materials for modules.
• Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
• Make suggestions through appropriate channels how to improve student academic experience.

Assessment and MarkingThe post holder will

• Set assessments for students and ensure there is a 90+% submissions of assessments for all modules on time.
• Support the production of assessments for module/unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures.
• Participate in standardisation meetings.
• Provide students with formative feedback as appropriate
• Mark summative assessments according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published by the Assessment Team.
• Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.

Student supportThe post holder will

• Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
• Field any pastoral requirements students may have, signposting them to relevant specialist College services as necessary.
• Monitor the progress of individual students’ Learning Support Plans, liaising with specialist services as necessary

Quality assuranceThe post holder will

• Provide a module evaluation report at the end of each module
• Contribute to Programme evaluations as required.
• Engage with Programme Committee meetings, contributing towards continuous improvement of the students’ learning experiences and the identification of good practice which other programmes and Schools might usefully draw on.
• Engage with other parts of the College’s quality assurance and academic governance frameworks, as opportunities arise.
• Reflect on the outcomes of student module feedback questionnaires, identifying areas for improvement as well as good practice which colleagues might usefully draw on.
• Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes.

ScholarshipThe post holder will

• Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities and continually update knowledge.
• Extend, transform and apply knowledge applied from scholarship to teaching and appropriate external activities including knowledge generation, knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer activities.
• Develop ideas and find ways of disseminating and applying the result of scholarship.

Managing people and resources:

• As module leader, co-ordinate with others (such as support staff or academic colleagues) to ensure student needs and expectations are met.
• Manage projects relating to own area of work and the organisation of external activities such as placements and field trips.
• Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development.
• Co-ordinate the work of others to ensure modules are delivered to the standards required.
• Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.
• Exercise responsibility for the design and delivery of own modules and assessment methods considering established or agreed practice where necessary.

This position requires candidates to undergo a DBS check as part of the application process.Up to £45,000 per annum subject to skills and experience

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:02:04 GMT

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