Digital Teaching Fellow - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Position Details
School of Psychology

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade: 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to March 2027

Closing date: 1st February 2024

2 positions available

Background
You will contribute to the development and delivery of a new Distance Learning Masters in Mental Health.

This exciting new programme will complement our successful campus-based Masters in Mental Health, and as our new programme is established you will also have the opportunity to contribute to other programmes in our School, enabling you to develop a range of skills as an inclusive educator who can support and ultimately lead education programmes on the ground as well as online.

Experience in implementing and developing distance learning programmes is desirable but not required.

Some discipline-specific knowledge in an area of mental health (broadly defined) is required, and alignment with one or more of our Institute for Mental Health (IMH) research priorities is preferable.

These are:

suicide and self-harm; early intervention and prevention; innovation in policy, systems, and services; justice, equalities, and capabilities; mental health data science and epidemiology; multidisciplinary approaches to the neuroscience of mental health; psychosis and mood disorders.

Our School is a community of over 150 academic and research staff, and we support over 1300 students and trainees on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and vibrant academic environment in which everyone can flourish.

Our IMH was initiated with a University investment of £2.3 million. We started a MSc Mental Health in 2021 and the programme already recruits over 60 students per year.

We are committed to research-intensive teaching and we combine interdisciplinary research with purposeful partnerships - academic, NHS, third sector, and critically, with our patients and public.

Our members are from academic fields including:
psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, health economics, epidemiology, geography, neuroscience, public health, sport and exercise science, and social policy.

Role Summary

Contribute to enhancement of the student experience and employability.
Contribute to content development and programme delivery on a new distance learning programme and on related programmes on campus.

Main Duties

Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and explanatory material in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and practical work.
Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including selfreflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
Contribute to knowledge transfer on own specialism that is of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.
Contribute to Departmental/School teachingrelated activities and teachingrelated administration.
Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
Promote equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.

Person Specification

Higher degree relevant to research or teaching area or equivalent qualifications
High level analytical capability
Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully
Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

View our staff values and behaviours here

We believe there is no such thing as a 'typical' member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyone on our w