Bournemouth University’s vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge, and enriching society through the fusion of education, research, and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences that help to build our global learning community.
The BU 2025 vision is to create a stimulating, challenging, and rewarding University experience, through sharing a unique fusion of education, research and professional practice and inspiring our students and staff to enrich the world. The Department of Nursing Science aim is to provide high-quality education and research that supports excellence in nursing practice to the benefit of all those who access healthcare, nationally and globally. The Department is a supportive and vibrant scholarship community of staff, practitioners, students and service users who work in partnership. The Department prepares nursing students from three fields of nursing and postgraduate health professionals for interdisciplinary team working, promoting population health, providing strong leadership, advanced clinical practice, undertaking research, innovating and transforming services, providing safe and humanising care, and demonstrating person-centred professional values.
We are offering a Senior Lecturer post to work across our Pre-registration Nursing and Advanced Clinical Practice programmes. This exciting post offers the successful candidate the opportunity to teach pre and post registration students, and the opportunity to develop their own academic skills. As Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Advanced Practice you will be expected to meet the BU 2025 fusion agenda of Research, Education and Professional practice. You will be expected to demonstrate current knowledge in clinical practice and support the leadership team of the ACP programme. You will be committed to a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement. You will have current UK NMC Registration and you will also have a relevant teaching qualification or be willing to undertake Fellowship with Advance HE.
You will be qualified to Doctorate level or be able to demonstrate the ability to create and disseminate knowledge at an equivalent level and the capability to convert this knowledge into a doctorate in a maximum of 3-5 years from the date of appointment. You will be research active and committed to a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively within Bournemouth University and with external clinical partners in developing an excellent student experience and research outputs relevant to Advanced Clinical Practice. The Department is committed to supporting and developing its staff in order to pursue the integration of high-quality research, teaching and practice.
This post is available part-time for 0.8 FTE
For further information or to arrange an informal discussion, please contact Professor Steve Ersser, erssers@bournemouth.ac.uk.