Digital Teaching Fellow

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to March 2027

Closes: 01/02/2024

Role Summary

We are seeking enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues who would like to develop their careers with us as educators and innovators in higher education. You will contribute to the development and delivery of a new Distance Learning Masters in Mental Health. This exciting new programme will complement our successful campus-based Masters in Mental Health, and as our new programme is established you will also have the opportunity to contribute to other programmes in our School, enabling you to develop a range of skills as an inclusive educator who can support and ultimately lead education programmes on the ground as well as online.

Experience in implementing and developing distance learning programmes is desirable but not required. Some discipline-specific knowledge in an area of mental health (broadly defined) is required, and alignment with one or more of our Institute for Mental Health (IMH) research priorities is preferable. These are: suicide and self-harm; early intervention and prevention; innovation in policy, systems, and services; justice, equalities, and capabilities; mental health data science and epidemiology; multidisciplinary approaches to the neuroscience of mental health; psychosis and mood disorders.

Our School is a community of over 150 academic and research staff, and we support over 1300 students and trainees on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and vibrant academic environment in which everyone can flourish.

Our IMH was initiated with a University investment of £2.3 million. We started a MSc Mental Health in 2021 and the programme already recruits over 60 students per year. We are committed to research-intensive teaching and we combine interdisciplinary research with purposeful partnerships – academic, NHS, third sector, and critically, with our patients and public. Our members are from academic fields including: psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, health economics, epidemiology, geography, neuroscience, public health, sport and exercise science, and social policy.

Person Specification

• Higher degree relevant to research or teaching area or equivalent qualifications
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully
• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

Informal enquires can be made to Professor Ed Wilding, email: [email protected]  or Dr Sally Adams, email: [email protected]

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