Role Description
Faculty / Dept:
Faculty of Health and Life Science, Department of Applied Sciences
Job Title:
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Immunology
Grade:
6/7
Category:
Academic
Job Purpose:
To contribute to learning, teaching, research and enterprise in the subject
area of Biomedical Sciences, with specific focus on Immunology
Responsible to:
Head of Department and Executive Dean of Faculty
1. Key Responsibilities:
•
Contribute to the development and delivery of teaching / assessment of Immunology and
haematology across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses
•
Design, supervise and conduct immunological and haematology laboratory classes
•
Manage the delivery, quality assurance and development of academic modules
•
Undertake undergraduate and postgraduate project supervision
•
Contribute to the teaching and assessment of Clinical Immunology to medical students on
the Keith B Taylor Global Scholars Programme, run in conjunction with St. Georges
University, Grenada
•
Provide guidance tutor support and pastoral care to students
•
Support collaboration with partner institutions and make international visits as required
•
Work with other staff in the Faculty to enhance engagement with external groups and raise
the profile of Health & Life Sciences and Northumbria University
•
Promotion of the international profile of the Department by contributing to research and/or
enterprise by securing external income, publishing research in high quality journals
•
To carry out other such duties as may be required by the Executive Dean of the Faculty
and/or Head of Department
2. Location:
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences (City Campus)
3. Attendance:
Full-time academic contract
4. Additional Information
References
Contact with your present or most recent employer will be made if you are offered the position.
Please complete the relevant section in the application form.
Disclosure and Barring Service checks
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 therefore the successful candidate
will be subject to a DBS check.
HEA
If you are not currently a member of the Higher Education Academy, you will be required to gain
Fellowship before your probationary period will be confirmed as completed.
Teaching qualification
If you have less than two years’ full time equivalent experience of teaching in further or higher
education, or if you do not have a relevant teaching qualification you are required to participate in
the Early Career Development Programme for Academic Staff (ECDfAS) or an approved equivalent
course leading to HEA membership.
Person Specification
CRITERIA CATEGORIES
E/D
A/I
1. Specific Knowledge
Detailed knowledge of Immunology
E
A/I
Detailed knowledge of Haematology
D
A/I
Use of IT in the delivery of distance learning
D
A/I
An ability to communicate verbally
E
A/I/T
Competent in practical Immunology
E
A/I
An ability to contribute to, and help develop, teaching in Immunology at
undergraduate and postgraduate levels including medical disciplines
E
A/I
Ability to organise and conduct small group Immunology teaching
E
A/I
An ability to conduct appropriate subject specific or pedagogic research and/or
enterprise activities
D
A/I
E
A/I
E
I
Experience of teaching/training
E
A/I
Experience of conducting small group physiology teaching
E
A/I
Experience of teaching large groups
D
A/I
Strong evidence of published research output and / or strong business or public
engagement activities.
E
A/I
E
A
2. Skills and Abilities
Good interpersonal skills and a willingness to work as part of a team
Willingness to undertake night-classes, occasional weekend work and
international travel to collaborating institutions
3. Experience
4. Education / Training
Holder of a higher degree in an appropriate subject or registered medical
practitioner
Key to abbreviations
E – Essential
D – Desirable
A – Application Form
I – Interview
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR APPLICANT
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
Department of Applied Sciences
The Faculty of Health & Life Sciences brings together expertise in a range of disciplines including biological,
chemical, physiological and psychological sciences along with professional healthcare and education, to
engage in research and provide a range of full-time and part-time programmes at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. Northumbria University is building on its reputation for high quality programmes in
Biomedical and Medical sciences and collaborating with institutions of higher education outside of the UK. As a
result of this the School requires an outstanding individual to support delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne of the
Keith B Taylor Global Scholars Programme, a Medical programme taught in collaboration with St George’s
University International School of Medicine, Grenada in the West Indies.
The development of collaborative programmes outside the UK provides an ideal opportunity for staff to work
with a range of international students with diverse cultural backgrounds. Those teaching on the medical
programme at Northumbria University may be required to occasionally teach the same subjects in Grenada,
and may also be asked to teach at collaborator sites worldwide and thus should be prepared to undertake
international travel.
The Faculty believes in research-informed teaching and expects academic staff to incorporate current
research, either their own or from the wider scientific community, into the learning process. The successful
applicant should have a higher degree in immunology; plus either practical or research experience. Significant
investment in research support and research facilities has produced a lively research-led teaching culture
within the Faculty that will allow the successful applicant opportunities to develop their science-based or
pedagogic research interests alongside their teaching and will be expected to supervise final-year dissertation
projects.
Students in the Faculty praise the friendly and supportive atmosphere generated by the staff, and successful
applicants would be expected to undertake guidance tutor duties and promote the student experience.
Classes are timetabled across the whole of the teaching day and you will be required to conduct night-classes
and make occasional contributions to open days at weekends.