Lecturer in Physiotherapy Education

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Job id: 085608. Salary: £51,974 to £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 01 March 2024. Closing date: 31 March 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Department of Population Health Sciences.

Contact details:Lorna Johnson. [email protected]

Location: Guy's Campus. Category: Academic & Teaching.

We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Physiotherapy Education on the Academic Education Pathway (full time, 1 FTE). This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to join a vibrant and highly committed physiotherapy academic team at King’s to establish themselves as a leader in the development and delivery of physiotherapy education.

The post-holder will be based in the Academic Teaching Department of Physiotherapy (School of Life Course & Population Sciences) in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. They will provide inspirational education for students, delivering high quality research-led teaching in lectures, seminars and practical workshops, supervision of student research projects and leadership of core modules, as well as contributing to the development of innovative practice education opportunities. They will offer pastoral guidance to enhance the university experience and support student wellbeing.

The two successful pre-registration physiotherapy programmes at King’s were redesigned in 2021 and aim to prepare over 250 graduates for leading and working flexibly across the changing health and social care environment to provide high-quality, person-centred and population sensitive, responsive services where individual choice is paramount. The curricula adopt a blended approach to learning with an integrated and inclusive approach to curriculum delivery to reflect the NHS Long term plan, contemporary research and to prepare students to consider, prevent and address health inequalities. The programmes are approved by the Health and Care Professions Council and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, allowing graduates eligibility to apply for registration as a physiotherapist.

The role will provide an excellent opportunity to enhance your teaching expertise using a broad range of approaches and learning technologies including the cutting edge Chantler clinical skills centre and dynamic interprofessional education programme at King’s. You will contribute to a range of authentic assessment approaches that prepare our students to be evidence-based person-focussed practitioners.  

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment and access to training opportunities that will support you to engage in scholarly or research activity and to develop your knowledge and expertise to thrive in an academic role at a research active institution. 

About Us

The BSc Physiotherapy Programme is the highest ranked in London in the Guardian University League table 2023-24.  The Department is based on the beautiful Guy’s campus near London Bridge station and Borough market, and you will have access to the King’s Sport Health and Wellness facilities that are free to all staff. 

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps  

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps/our-departments/population-health-sciences

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.

The post-holder’s main duties will relate to the development and delivery of pre-registration teaching on the Physiotherapy programmes in the Department of Population Health Sciences. This includes:

Education

• Undertake module leadership, delivering high quality inclusive teaching, learning, assessment and feedback.
• Continuously update and refine teaching methods, materials, and curriculum, incorporating research findings and feedback from students.
• Support innovative and effective teaching and curriculum development.
• Undertake mentoring and pastoral support as a personal tutor and link tutor during practice placements.
• Contribute to administrative tasks, such as admissions, in-course assessments, and monitoring student progress.

Research

• Support the development and dissemination of educational research.
• Contribute to the dissemination of teaching innovations and initiatives.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant professional standards.
• Demonstrate awareness of global developments impacting the physiotherapy profession

The Academic Education Pathway allows for up to 20% of appointee’s time to be dedicated to research activities. This might involve:

• Collaboration in large research projects as a co-investigator
• Development of new pedagogical research themes
• Involvement in activities led by the Faculty’s Centre for Education

Management and Citizenship

• Actively participate in departmental and university-wide committees, working groups, events, and Athena SWAN activities, contributing to continuous improvement and promoting equal opportunities.
• Perform any other duties commensurate with the grade and purpose of the position, as required.

Related activities

• Enhancing the national and international standing of the University through external examining, contributions to peer review processes, membership of external committees and learned societies.
• Active participation in the promotion of the Academic Teaching Department of Physiotherapy and the promotion of Physiotherapy locally, nationally and internationally, including engagement with the physiotherapy workforce.
• Scholarship (e.g. books/book chapters, official reports, guidelines etc) that enhances the academic standing of the Department and University.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Further Information

We are committed to continually improving the diversity of our workforce and embedding good culture, equality and diversity practice into all our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study. Therefore, we encourage applications from all groups including from applicants who are from a racial/ethnic minority background, the LGBTQ+ community, those who are neurodiverse and those with a disability. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a panel interview and asked to deliver a short presentation to the panel on a specified topic, prior to interviewing. Decisions regarding the outcome of interviews will be made after all candidates have been interviewed. The post will be based at Addison House, Guy’s campus. The majority of teaching is in-person and primarily at Guy’s campus. The postholder may occasionally be required to work at other campuses or visit partner trust sites.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of five Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, rehabilitation, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’s and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments. Our educational portfolio thus reflects undergraduate and postgraduate courses offering interdisciplinary opportunities to explore the life course of health and disease, as well as professional pre-registration programmes and post-registration training.