Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing at University of Brighton

Closing Date: Sunday 10 September 2023

Interview Date: Monday 25 September 2023

We would like you to bring your skills and experience to join our Specialist Community Public Health Nursing team in the School of Sport and Health Sciences, where you will be teaching and supporting students undertaking the Health Visiting and School Nursing programmes

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team dedicated to teaching across the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing programme. We are looking to recruit a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer with contemporary knowledge of specialist community public health nursing who has professional experience as a senior practitioner. You will provide specialist and advanced knowledge to prepare health professionals to address health inequalities and to prevent ill health, protect health and promote wellbeing.

Our programmes’ curriculum is focused on preparing practitioners to develop their role or innovate their practice and our philosophy is to work in partnership with students, academics, researchers, service users and service colleagues to deliver high quality learning and teaching based on contemporary research findings and prescribing and specialist community practice. In order to be successful in this role you should have:

• Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Heath Visitor or School Nurse
• A good first degree in a nursing, midwifery or allied health profession and working towards or have a postgraduate MSc
• A Higher Education teaching qualification and/or an HEA Fellowship, or willingness to undertake this within the first 12 months
• Up-to-date, sound knowledge of current developments in health including current clinical, professional, leadership and policy developments and the range of generic skills required to teach the subject
• Have knowledge of the six new spheres of the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (2022)

Informal enquiries can be made to Susanne Simmons: S.J.Simmons@brighton.ac.uk

This post is 1.0 FTE and permanent.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking to job share.

Interviews are planned to take place on Monday 25 September 2023.

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee’s home. It is the University’s expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.