Senior Lecturer / Head of Simulation

A bit about the School of Health & Society… 

Our School of Health & Society is one of the largest providers of health and society subjects and known for our track record of collaborating with a wide range of industry partners across health and social care to produce highly skilled graduates with real work experience. We are at an interesting time in the Higher Education sector, there is significant change in terms of oversight, student expectations and changing demographics and we are trying to do things differently so that we stay ahead of these changes.  Our connection to industry is stronger than ever and we're proud to have more partnerships with SMEs than any other Greater Manchester University. It's everything we do and the way we do everything. 

The University continues to make significant investment in the resources for simulation-based learning and skills acquisition and the School has excellent resources and plans for further development. Practice based learning is a core element of our approach to relevant and meaningful learning across all the programmes we deliver and across all levels. 

We are now looking for an experienced health professional to join our School as Senior Lecturer and Head of Simulation. This exciting role will lead on delivering high quality simulation and inter professional education across health and society programmes.

So, what will the role involve?

·       Lead the development and deployment of the School simulation strategy  

·       Contribute to our thinking and be challenging on how Salford can transform the way it addresses simulation-based education 

·       Further develop interprofessional education within simulation-based education

·       Contribute to research and enterprise activity within simulation-based education.

·       To enhance the student experience at Salford in order to improve internationalisation, retention, academic success and graduate employability. 

What’s in it for you? 

To help you, we have wide ranging colleague support networks, promoting awareness events throughout the year and giving you the opportunity to share your experiences with others. Our extensive faith centre facilities reflect our continuing commitment to support the student and colleague experience and the beliefs and values you bring to our community.   

There is a varied benefits package available through ‘MySalford’ where you can tailor your benefits to suit your own lifestyle – everything from additional annual leave, savings on High Street shopping, travel discounts as well as health and wellbeing support. To maintain work/life balance, when appropriate you can connect to work from wherever you are. Whether it’s our Peel Park Campus, MediaCityUK or your couch at home, the tools are there for you to do your best work. Flexibility on working from home is supported where possible, however the role will be based on the University of Salford campus. 

However you identify, whatever your pathway has been to get here, come and join us at the University of Salford where we are all proud to belong.