Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Plymouth
Client: Plymouth University
Location: Plymouth, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 0a1cd2a0128b
Job Views: 74
Posted: 13.02.2025
Expiry Date: 30.03.2025
Job Description:
Based in the Faculty of Health, the School of Health Professions is committed to shaping students into the best health professionals they can be. InterCity Place is the new home for our healthcare teaching and research, providing students with skills to meet the needs of 21st-century careers.
The School offers a unique interdisciplinary learning environment where students can benefit from excellent skills and research laboratories, research-informed teaching, stimulating practice placements, and teaching delivered by professionally registered academic staff.
The School is proud of its commitment to student voluntary work, staff-student partnership, strong professional values, and our record of student achievement and satisfaction. State-of-the-art facilities and equipment help students maximize their potential and develop their core skills, preparing them for exciting and rewarding careers. The School holds an Athena SWAN Silver award demonstrating the University’s commitment to advancing gender equality.
This is an exciting time to join the University of Plymouth, the largest provider of healthcare education in the Southwest. We have recently made a significant investment in our facilities at InterCity Place, a £33 million space that will revolutionize our teaching and research across the School of Health Professions, including Occupational Therapy.
We are looking for registered occupational therapists (or eligible for registration) with appropriate academic and/or professional experience in occupational therapy to join our team. You will have an understanding and passion for contemporary occupational therapy practice and research and the desire to pass on your knowledge to the next generation of occupational practitioners.
Please demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, training, and experience elements of the job description in your supporting statement.
This role will require an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check plus a Children’s Barred List and Adults Barred List check.
You must currently be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), excluding social workers in England.
For an informal discussion to find out more about the roles, please contact Fiona Fraser, Academic Lead for Occupational Therapy via email (tel: 01752 587581).
Interviews are likely to take place on Friday 13th September 2024. You will be notified if you have been shortlisted. The interview process will involve a 10-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute interview.
This is a full-time, permanent position, working 37 hours a week. We regret that there is no opportunity to work from home in this position.
We offer a competitive salary package and a generous pension and holiday scheme, along with ongoing development opportunities, flexible working, staff networks, and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
A relocation package may be available to the successful candidate, conditions apply.
The Faculty of Health holds four Silver Athena Swan awards, which recognize our commitment to supporting gender equality within higher education.
Staff appointed within the Faculty of Health may be able to join the NHS pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria.
The University of Plymouth has a strong interdisciplinary research ethos supported by our three strategic Research Institutes. As a member of our academic community, you’ll be expected to contribute to our recognized research strengths.
The University of Plymouth is an inclusive community where everyone is welcomed regardless of their background. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented communities at the University of Plymouth, such as carers/parents, people with disabilities, ethnically diverse, LGBT+, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds.
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