Appointment of a Technical Instructor
(Culinary Arts and Hospitality)
The school
The School of Sport and Service Management is one of the largest in the
UK, encompassing the spectrum of subject areas defined by REF Unit
26 and the QAA benchmark statements. The school has a rich history of
over 110 years with dynamic growth and refreshment. We have one of
the most long-standing physical education teacher training programmes
in the UK from our foundation in 1898 and this course contributes to the
university’s “outstanding” grade in initial teacher education. Our
programmes in Hospitality, Travel and Tourism have gained a significant
reputation, both in the industry sector and among academics for the
quality of applied research and the graduates. We established one of the
UK’s first Sport Sciences degrees in the 1980s, adding one of the first
Leisure programmes in the 1990’s, and more recently the first specialist
degree in Sport Journalism. Wherever available we seek external
accreditation and currently carry awards from the British Association of
Sport & Exercise Sciences (course and laboratory awards), Chartered
Marketeer, Institute for Travel and Meetings, National Council for
Training of Journalists, and the National College for Teaching and
Leadership (NCTL) for qualified teacher status. The school has around
1,500 undergraduate students.
Our research and graduate centre supports staff activity as well as coordinating a suite of masters degrees and in association with the
university’s doctoral college, around 30 PhD students.
The school has approximately 80 lecturing and research staff supported
by 40 administrative, technical and other support staff.
Courses
We offer courses in the following areas:
At undergraduate
Exercise and health science
International Hospitality Management
International Tourism Management
International Travel Management
International Event Management
Physical Education
Physical Education (with qualified teacher status)
Retail Management
Retail Marketing
Sports Coaching
Sport and Exercise Science
Sport and Exercise Science with PE
Sports Journalism
Sport Business Management
Sports Science
Sports Studies
Travel Journalism
At postgraduate
PGCE (Qualified teacher status) Physical Education
PGCE (Qualified teacher status) Dance
MA and MSc degrees including:
Applied Exercise Physiology
Culinary Arts
Exercise and Health Science
International Events Management
International Hospitality Management
International Tourism Management
Retail Management
Retail Marketing
Sport, Culture and Media
Sport and Exercise Science
Sport and International Development
Sport and Society
Some programmes at Masters level are also jointly delivered at partner
institutions in France (Deauville), the Netherlands (Wittenborg) and
Germany (Angell Business School, Freiburg).
Our school website provides full details about all our courses, our
facilities, our research activity, and our news and events. Please visit
our website at: http://about.brighton.ac.uk/sasm/
We are located in the pleasant surroundings of the Meads area in
Eastbourne which has excellent schools, housing and leisure facilities, is
adjacent to the sea and within a few minutes of the South Downs
National Park. The university campus in Eastbourne includes the School
of Sport & Service management and the School of Health Professions.
Resources
University facilities provide numerous teaching spaces, computer pool
rooms, an extensive library, the Eastbourne campus doctoral college, a
student services centre, Students’ Union offices and student residencies.
The school is housed in six main buildings on the Eastbourne campus,
providing staff offices, teaching rooms and specialist facilities as follows:
Sport and Exercise Science
The sport and exercise science laboratories are accredited by the British
Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and have Reference
Laboratory status from the International Sports Medicine Federation. The
laboratory complex contains seven main laboratories and a seminar
room. There is a range of equipment for measuring behavioural aspects
human performance and extensively equipment for biomechanics,
physiology, and biochemistry including two environmental chambers –
one for hot/cold and one for altitude. The school has invested in a 3D
immersion system which is currently being installed. The school’s
website includes photographs and a fuller description of the laboratories.
Sports Medicine
The laboratory complex also houses Sportswise, The Sussex Centre for
Sport and Exercise Medicine, run in co-operation with the school which
provides a physiotherapy service to students as well as running a
commercial sports medicine service. The centre is headed by Dr Nick
Webborn who was Chief Medical Officer for the London 2012 paralympic
games and is a part-time member of academic staff in the school.
http://www.sportswise.org.uk/
Sports Journalism
Sport Journalism has two specialist newsrooms providing numerous
workstations and associated media and software facilities. The Sport
Journalism staff and students produce their own webzine (see
http://www.overtimeonline.co.uk/)
Culinary arts studio
The studio offers a creative and contemporary environment for learning
and development. It includes a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen and
an eating area with interactive mood lighting, data projection, and PA
system. The Culinary Arts Studio has been used for product launches,
menu development, food and equipment demonstrations, wine tasting,
contemporary meals, training, teambuilding, seminars and any culinary
events. Of particular note has been the £2.8m euro EU Hotpot project
with partners Institute Polytechnic La Salle Beauvais and the Institute of
Food Research. http://www.culinaryartsstudio.co.uk/
Practical sports facilities
The school has access to a range of specialist sports facilities. These
include a large sports hall, indoor swimming pool, two dance studios, two
gymnasia, a fitness suite and a climbing wall. A recent investment of
£750,000 refurbished a gymnasium into a strength and well-being
centre, featuring a wide range of strength and conditioning equipment.
Outdoors there is an artificial turf pitch and tennis courts. In Eastbourne
there is an all-weather athletic track and grass pitches. There is a vibrant
programme of activity across the wide range from competitive sport to
healthy recreation with students, staff, external individual members,
along with schools and sports clubs. We have strong links with the
university’s Sport & Recreation provision and full details of the sports
facilities and activity can be seen at
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sportbrighton
Research and Graduate Centre
Staff offices, graduate student space and a computer room are clustered
to form our School Research and Graduate Centre. The Centre
supports all research activity in the school as well as the suite of masters
courses. The centre houses our Professoriate, Research Fellows, and
administrative support staff.
Partnerships
Partnerships are important in all areas of our work. We work closely with
many public sector, sports and commercial organisations. We have
strong relationships with numerous schools in the South East for our
Physical Education and Dance work, part of the faculty-wide ITE
partnerships with some 450 schools and colleges in the region. We have
many external and overseas partnerships, including extensive links in
Europe under the Erasmus scheme, as well as further afield in Australia,
Malaysia and Japan. Of particular note are a European BA and MA
featuring joint teaching, organisation and student mobility with partners
across Europe.
To provide students with extended opportunities, the school has a very
extensive programme of social engagement activities running across our
entire provision and ranging in scope from links in the local town to the
esteemed trans-national Football4Peace programme. In a typical year
we have dozens of projects involving hundreds of students engaged in
curricular, research, business and enrichment activities. The news
section of our webpages gives examples of these activities.
Staff Development Opportunities
In accordance with the university’s Staff Development Policy, a wide
range of development opportunities, which are continuously reviewed to
meet new demands, are available to all staff. These include, computing
short courses, management training, learning and teaching qualifications
and research supervision.
Academic staff are encouraged to attend conferences where appropriate,
and all staff are able to attend part-time courses at the Universities of
Brighton and Sussex and Brighton College of Technology for which
application for fee waiver is available. We promote policies that
encourage and support staff development in research and there is a
range of very experienced staff to mentor every stage of an individual’s
development.
Research
The School of Sport and Service Management has a long-standing
commitment to research excellence. The school has made a submission
to all previous research assessment exercises and for REF2014
submitted 22 staff to UoA C26. In the 2007 round the school received
ratings that placed us as the strongest provider in the South-East and 7th
nationally in the sport-related unit.
The University of Brighton’s strategic plan identifies a continued increase
in research activity and this is mirrored by the school. We have
established a dedicated Research and Graduate Centre, led by
Professor John Nauright, to provide the environment, culture and
infrastructure necessary for research to flourish.
Many members of staff are active researchers at the forefront of their
respective areas of specialisation. Our activity embraces the range of
basic and applied research that falls within the REF Unit of assessment
26: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism.
The school has an excellent track record of investment in both the
research infrastructure and the development of research active staff.
There are two main research groups in the school, SESEME (Centre for
Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine) and CoSTALS (Centre for
Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies).
The Centre for Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine (SESAME) is a
joint venture linking Life Sciences, Social Sciences and the Brighton and
Sussex Medical School, thus providing a single multidisciplinary
research-based unit with a specific focus on sport, exercise, and health.
SESAME comprises of three major research themes: (i) Sports
Performance (with a particular focus on the elite athlete, anti-doping
research and exercise in extreme environments; (ii) Exercise and Health
(focus on physical activity health and wellbeing; healthy aging; and (iii)
Sport and Exercise Medicine (focus on injury and illness surveillance;
injury biomarkers; musculoskeletal injury. The area has received over
£400,000 of capital investment in the last three years equipping it with
state of the art facilities for research into human performance, in
particular a genetics laboratory, two environmental chambers and a 3D
immersion screen as well as a host of further equipment.
The mission of the Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies
(CoSTALS) at the University of Brighton is to encourage, support and
help develop sustainable futures through economic regeneration,
ecological sensitivity, cultural awareness and preservation through the
creation and analysis of sporting and cultural events, through the
implementation and evaluation of programmes in sport, tourism and
leisure, and through conscious promotion of social justice, youth
development and inclusivity within economically viable contexts. The
group believes in research led action to generate global transformation
for sustainable futures arguing that the tourism, sport and leisure, and
cultural industries play vital roles in this process. There are a number of
core units to deliver on this research, consultancy and economic
engagement mission: Sport, tourism, Events and Venues Hospitality;
Food and Retail Management; Sport, Tourism and Recreation For
Peace-Building and Economic Sustainability; Tourism Policy, Practice
and Performance; Bodies, Spaces and Places; Adventure Tourism, The
Outdoors and Lifestyle; Sports Political Activism and Fan Cultures
(PAFC).
There is an established research support and development programme
designed to assist active researchers and develop new researchers for
the future including a sabbatical scheme, ECR and Rising Stars awards,
conference support, research leadership development, and workshops
on specific topics.
Economic engagement and impact
The school has a good record in translating research to the benefit of
economic and social communities, and the taught curriculum. A business
unit within the school supports commercial work and in a typical year
turns-over around £450,000. Recent projects include working with the
Airmiles Travel Company, Siemens plc, the Institute of Customer Service
and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. A specialist Sport
and Exercise Science Support team run projects with businesses, the
English Institute of Sport, schools, colleges, and individual athletes.
The school has received 6 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
funded by the Technology Strategy Board and ESRC, 4 of which have a
retail focus including the retail activities of Rick and Jill Stein’s Company
in Padstow, and the Charity Shop/ e commerce capability of St Wilfrid’s
Hospice in East Sussex.
Job sharing
The University of Brighton welcomes job sharers. Job sharing is a way of
working where two people share one full-time job, dividing the work,
responsibilities, pay, holidays and other benefits between them
proportionate to the hours each works, thereby increasing access to a
wide range of jobs on a part-time basis.
Potential job sharers do not have to apply with a partner. However, if a
post is to be operated as a job share there must be at least two suitable
applicants who wish to share the job.
A job share appointment will only be made if it has been demonstrated
that both shortlisted applicants can do the job to the required standards
and within a working pattern of hours that is agreeable to all parties. If
one applicant is unsuitable, neither can be appointed unless an
alternative potential job sharer has been shortlisted.
When applying as a job sharer please indicate this on your application
form. Please also indicate on the additional information tab whether you
are applying with a job share partner and the name of that person. It
would also be useful if you could indicate whether you would be
interested in the post on a full-time basis if no suitable partner can be
found. If you have indicated that you would be willing to take up the
position on a full-time basis then the normal recruitment procedure will be
followed.
If you are interested in appointment on a job share basis, please contact
Human Resources for a copy of the university's policy, procedure and
guidelines for job sharing. Alternatively staff in Human Resources will be
happy to answer any queries you may have.
The job
Details of the job are described in the attached job description.
The salary
Salaries are paid monthly in arrears through the BACS System directly
into the bank or building society account of each member of staff.
Salary payments for staff that work less than 52 weeks per year are
spread evenly over twelve months of the year so that they continue to
receive payment during the times they are not contracted to work. This
means that, when they leave the employment of the university, they may
have received either an over or underpayment for that year, according to
the date of leaving in relation to the anniversary of the start date. In
such cases, the adjustment would be made in the final salary payment,
as a deduction or lump sum payment, as applicable.
Working week
The hours of work for this post are 37 hours per week, excluding meal
breaks (these are unpaid), 52 weeks per year and hours of attendance
are to be made by agreement.
Duration of the job
The appointment is permanent.
Holiday
For each full-year worked you are entitled to annual leave dependent on
your grade of pay (see table below). The entitlement increases after
five years’ continuous service, pro rata for part-time staff. Annual leave
entitlement for part-time staff and staff on shift patterns will be calculated
in hours. New members of staff are entitled to annual leave
proportionate to their completed calendar months of service. In addition
to the eight Bank and Public Holidays each year, discretionary days are
granted in late December to allow the university to remain closed
between Christmas and the New Year.
Grades
1-3
4-7
8-9
Basic entitlement
per year
23 days
25 days
27 days
Grades
1-3
4-7
8-9
Basic entitlement after 5
years’ service
28 days
30 days
30 days
Terms & conditions In determining terms and conditions of employment, the university has
regard to recommendations made through the appropriate national
negotiating framework. These terms and conditions of service can be
varied by local agreements reached through the university’s local
negotiating framework which comprises a Joint Negotiating Committee
supported by two Common Interest Groups. These groups bring
together representatives of the university and its recognised trade
unions, which are:
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Strategic plan
UCU University and Colleges Union
UNISON
Details of our Strategic Plan can be found at:
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/xpedio/groups/Public/documents/staffce
ntral/doc013747.pdf
Interviews
Interviews are likely to take place towards the end of September 2015.