PGT Module Leader (Contact Lenses)

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College of Optometry & Imaginative and prescient Sciences

Educating & Scholarship

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PGT Module Chief (Contact Lenses)
Lecturer (Educating and Scholarship) 

The modern Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes at WOPEC within the College of Optometry and Imaginative and prescient Sciences, Cardiff College incorporate each distance studying and make contact with instructing. We’re searching for to nominate an element time module chief to affix our motivated postgraduate instructing staff.  

Module Leaders work to develop, ship and consider modules/ programmes inside the postgraduate qualification provision within the College. In addition to instructing and assessing college students, they’re answerable for the daily operating of a module, the upkeep of exterior accreditations as acceptable and the instructing and evaluation together with co-ordinating different members of employees that contribute.  

This publish is to be module chief for our Contact Lenses 1 module (OPT040):
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/optometry-vision-sciences/programs/postgraduate-taught/modules/opt040-contact-lenses-1
Educating and evaluation for this module is delivered on-line though occasional attendance is required in Cardiff. There’s a requirement to ship some stay instructing episodes outdoors of ordinary workplace hours. In individual attendance at Examination Board/ Board of Research in February and/or in July can be required annually.  

It is a half time place 0.11 FTE (4 hours per week) and is mounted time period for a interval of three years. 

Wage:  £49,794 – £54,395 every year (Grade 7), plus market complement, professional rata for hours labored.

All enquiries please contact Grant Robinson [email protected]  

Date advert posted: Friday, 22 March 2024

Cut-off date: Sunday, 07 April 2024

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working setting. We imagine this may be achieved via attracting, creating, and retaining a various vary of employees from many various backgrounds.  We due to this fact welcome candidates from all sections of the group no matter intercourse, ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation, trans identification, relationship standing, faith or perception, caring duties, or age.  In supporting our staff to realize a steadiness between their work and their private lives, we may also take into account proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.

Functions could also be submitted in Welsh, and an software submitted in Welsh is not going to be handled much less favourably than an software submitted in English.

Job Description

Important perform 

To undertake a full instructing load, together with the event, supply and analysis of postgraduate instructing and evaluation as much as Masters degree. To oversee college students, present suggestions and be answerable for the pastoral care of scholars. To hold out administrative duties inside the work space as required. To be answerable for supply and content material of an optometry postgraduate taught module.  

Educating  

•    To behave as a module chief for a postgraduate instructing together with co-ordinating with different contributors to make sure supply of a excessive customary of instructing to     meet scholar wants and expectations.
•    To contribute to the supply of different modules inside the similar topic sub-specialty as required.
•    To design acceptable instructing supplies at a postgraduate degree.
•    To ship postgraduate instructing together with recording lectures and delivering tutorials (on-line and in-person).
•    To establish the necessity for creating/ revising the content material or construction of modules and curriculum and make proposals on how this needs to be achieved.
•    To take care of exterior accreditations as acceptable.
•    To show in a wide range of settings from small group periods to giant lectures.
•    To set, mark and assess work and examinations and supply suggestions to college students, together with replying to E-Mail and different communication with college students inside     an acceptable time interval.
•    To be answerable for administrative duties in areas resembling examinations, evaluation of progress and scholar attendance.
•    To handle initiatives referring to personal space of labor and the organisation of exterior actions resembling sensible days outdoors of the College of Optometry.
•    Supervise the work of scholars together with the supervision of Undergraduate and Grasp’s college students, the co-supervision of PGR’s and performing as a PGR progress     overview panel member as required

Scholarship 

•    Contribute to scholarship within the space of labor via participation in conferences, seminars and different tutorial {and professional} boards to disseminate the     outcomes of particular person scholarship
•    Interact in scholarly exercise via journal articles and/or outputs which advance data inside the space of labor
•    To mentor colleagues with much less expertise and advise on private improvement.
•    Contribute to scholarship via interdisciplinary working with people and groups inside, and exterior to, the broader college group
•    Perform different types of scholarship together with work related to examinations (setting and marking paper and offering constructive suggestions to     college students), administration, participation in committee work 

Different 

•    Interact successfully with industrial, industrial and public sector organisations, skilled establishments, different tutorial establishments and many others., regionally     and nationally to boost consciousness of the College’s profile, to domesticate strategically worthwhile alliances, and to pursue alternatives for collaboration     throughout a spread of actions. These actions are anticipated to contribute to the College and the enhancement of its regional and nationwide profile
•    Take part in College administration and actions to advertise the College and its work to the broader College and the surface world
•    Some other duties not included above, however in step with the function

Particular person Specification

We need to make use of folks with all kinds of experiences. We welcome functions from all sections of the group no matter intercourse, ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation, trans identification, relationship standing, faith or perception, caring duties, or age. We’re significantly searching for functions from candidates who come from backgrounds which might be underrepresented on the College, together with folks from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities.

Your software might be assessed towards the next important and fascinating standards for the function. Please copy and paste this part into a brand new doc and provides clear examples of how one can proof assembly every criterion by writing beneath each. You may draw on components from any facet of your life (e.g., work, dwelling, schooling/{qualifications} or group life) so long as you deal with their relevance to the function.

Please save your supporting assertion in a separate doc with the title [YOURNAME-BR NUMBER-JOB TITLE] and fix it to your software within the recruitment system. 

Important Standards 

{Qualifications} and Schooling 

1.    GOC registered optometrist or an ophthalmologist or allied healthcare practitioner
2.    Specialist data of contact lenses in optometric observe
3.    Postgraduate Certificates in College Educating and Studying or equal qualification or substantial publish registration expertise as a practising ophthalmic clinician  

Information, Expertise and Expertise 

4.    Vital instructing expertise at a excessive degree of high quality at undergraduate/postgraduate degree.
5.    Means to design, ship and constantly develop modules throughout the Faculties instructing programmes.  

Pastoral, Communication and Crew Working 

6.    Glorious communication expertise with the flexibility to current advanced and conceptual concepts clearly and confidently to others utilizing excessive degree expertise and a     vary of media
7.    The power to offer acceptable pastoral help to college students, recognize the wants of particular person college students and their circumstances and to behave as a     private tutor.
8.    Means to behave as module chief and co-ordinate with others to make sure scholar wants and expectations are met. 

Different 

9.    Confirmed potential to reveal creativity, innovation and teamworking inside work 

Fascinating standards 

1.    Postgraduate diploma at PhD degree in a associated topic space
2.    Qualification in medical instructing
3.    Means to work a number of evenings and weekends a yr
4.    Rising nationwide status inside tutorial subject
5.    Greater qualification involved lens observe e.g. Skilled Greater Certificates in Contact Lens Observe, Skilled Diploma in Contact Lens Observe     or comparable different.
6.    GOC specialist register for impartial prescribing.
7.    Proof of potential to take part in and develop each inner and exterior networks and utilise them to reinforce the instructing and analysis actions of     the College
8.    A willingness to take accountability for academically associated administration. 

Job Class

Educational – Educating & Scholarship