Senior Lecturer – Welsh Language Education Provision at Swansea University

Contract: Fixed term contract for Maternity leave cover until 28^th April 2024. This is a part time position for 0.2 FTE hours (2 sessions of 3.5 hours/week).

Location: This position will be based at Singleton Campus

The Graduate Entry Medicine programme has a number of Welsh speakers, both in the academic and clinical Faculty and in management. We are looking for a fluent and confident Welsh speaking clinician, with a real desire to support use of the Welsh Language in clinical settings across Wales, to work within our Welsh Language Support Team. Your role will be to ensure that Welsh Language Support is fully clinically integrated and embedded into the GEM programme and its associated clinical placements. In conjunction with this, the role includes contributions to the RRHiME programme (Rural and Remote Health in Medical Education). This is a track providing students with the opportunity to focus elements of the GEM programme in rural and remote parts of Wales. This includes clinical placements and student-selected projects.

The role provides an exciting opportunity to join Swansea University Medical School, located in beautiful Southwest Wales and one of the UK’s leading Medical Schools. Swansea University Medical School provides an interdisciplinary approach, educating and training the next generation of doctors, life scientists, and health professionals. We collaborate with the NHS, business and the third sector in a spirit of open innovation and has established itself as a world-class place to learn, research and innovate.

The Medical School is a progressive, dynamic, and aspirational part of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science located on the Singleton Campus of Swansea University and provides an interdisciplinary approach, educating and training the next generation of doctors, life scientists, and health professionals. It collaborates with the NHS, business and the third sector in a spirit of open innovation and has established itself as a world-class place to learn, research and innovate. The Medical School ranks top 5 for research quality (REF2021) and is consistently highly ranked in various subject-specific teaching league tables. The Medical School became the first department within the University to achieve an Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) Athena SWAN Charter Silver Award in 2015, and this was re-awarded in 2019 in recognition of its commitment to equality. The University also holds the Athena SWAN Charter Silver Award. Swansea is a great place to live and work, the gateway to the Gower with its fantastic beaches and close to the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog).

A satisfactory DBS certificate must be provided before a start date can be confirmed

Applicants are asked to provide a completed online application providing evidence against the essential criteria in the recruitment documentation. Applicants should also attach to the application the following documents:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of Motivation

For further information, please see the attached Job Description, and you are also welcome to contact Professor Ffion Williams (ffion.williams@swansea.ac.uk ) who is Head of Graduate Entry Medicine and Medical Education.