Head of Discipline for Public Health and Social Care

Job particulars

School

School of Well being, Psychology and Social Care

Accountable to

Head of Faculty – Allied Well being and Social Care

Location

Kedleston Highway, Derby Campus

Wage

£57,427 to £71,784 each year (For distinctive performers, there may be scope for additional development as much as £82,552 each year)

Deadline

Sunday 7 April 2024

Contract sort

Everlasting

Submit sort

Full-time

Adaptive working sort

Hybrid
This position will probably be based mostly on web site, primarily within the named location with the chance to work remotely obtainable in step with our Adaptive Working Framework .

Reference

0100-24

In regards to the position

That is an impressive alternative for the precise candidate to affix the College of Derby in an space that’s formidable about enlargement and enhancement of its present portfolio and contribution to well being and social care analysis.

The Head of  Self-discipline for Public Well being and Social Care (PHSC) is a key position throughout the tutorial governance construction of the Faculty of Allied Well being and Social Care and the School of Well being, Psychology and Social Care on the College of Derby.

The Public Well being and Social Care Self-discipline consists of 30+ employees members engaged with associated educating and analysis exercise. The Self-discipline has a spread {of professional} or professionally oriented programmes, together with Social Work and Public Well being. As well as, there’s a rising suite of Continuous Skilled Improvement (CPD) provision and the potential for additional improvement throughout the Self-discipline space. We additionally anticipate strengthening our apprenticeship provision on this self-discipline. 

Our ambition is to recruit a high-profile tutorial with intensive expertise in academia and an formidable plan for improvement of well being and social care analysis and neighborhood engagement. Working collaboratively throughout the broader college and with our observe, third sector and trade companions is important to the success of the position. 

On this position, you’ll assume accountability for the general success of Public Well being and Social Care and can work carefully with the Head of the Faculty of Allied Well being and Social Care and others within the School of Well being, Psychology and Social Care. You’ll contribute to the broader management of the School and College to make sure that company and strategic goals are met. 

As Head of Self-discipline (PHSC), you’ll have devolved accountability from the Head of Faculty for the road administration of employees and price range, offering sturdy management that’s each supportive and difficult. You’ll work carefully with the Programme Leaders and different colleagues to make sure educating excellence and to maximise pupil success and expertise. 

For additional data and casual enquiries concerning the position, please contact Mel Lindley, Head of Faculty and Allied Well being and Social Care through [email protected].

For enquiries concerning your utility and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment staff through [email protected]

Principal accountabilities

Present sturdy, inspiring, and collaborative management, create a constructive staff spirit, maximise folks potential and engagement throughout the Self-discipline space and wider College, to foster a vibrant and revolutionary tutorial neighborhood.

Improve the total vary of educational actions within the Self-discipline space, together with educating and studying, impactful analysis, skilled improvement, tutorial enterprise, and scholarly exercise.

Undertake sector horizon scanning and benchmarking efficiency in opposition to rivals to boost the energy and efficiency of the Self-discipline space.

Help and problem employees to attain wonderful metrics and outcomes in TEF, REF, NSS, PRES and PTES and different key efficiency indicators.

Work carefully with the management staff to domesticate the tutorial improvement, evaluation and educating after all provision throughout the Self-discipline space.

Actively foster collaborative relationships with the Registry {and professional} assist service colleagues to make sure the wants of the School are being supported.

To guide groups and actions and work carefully with the broader management staff to make sure a difficult and supported pupil expertise which conjures up them to attain academically and of their profession to their highest potential.

Take the lead in guaranteeing the skilled accreditation of programmes is achieved within the Self-discipline space the place acceptable.

Make sure the dedication to and improvement of educational enterprise, collaborative partnerships, and consultancy and industrial actions and handle these inside employees workloads.

Promote and embed the College’s core values with particular emphasis on high quality, employability, and social mobility.

Signify the Self-discipline space or Faculty externally as vital.

Actively contribute to the Faculty Management Crew to supply efficient tutorial management.

Lead by instance in guaranteeing employees work collegially within the School and have interaction with university-wide departments and actions to attain School and College targets.

Handle and assist employees throughout the Self-discipline space with respect to tutorial workload planning, enterprise improvement and efficiency evaluations, teaching, and mentoring as required.

Utilise administration data to watch achievement of targets, setting clear efficiency targets and addressing problems with underperformance in an goal and supportive method when vital.

Work proactively with the Head of Faculty to make sure the efficient planning and administration of assets inside an agreed price range and have interaction with School planning and budgeting.

Interact in UK and Worldwide pupil recruitment actions by, working successfully with recruitment & advertising and marketing colleagues and course leaders to develop the profile of the Self-discipline (s), together with its promotion by advertising and marketing and the media.

Guarantee all new employees within the Self-discipline space obtain complete and efficient induction and assist throughout their probationary interval.

Handle employees in methods in keeping with the College’s core values and behaviours.

Be sure that employees within the Self-discipline space have interaction with employees improvement alternatives to realize and constantly improve their abilities and contribution, main by instance.

Guarantee compliance with institutional efficiency expectations throughout the HE sector, together with regulatory requirement of e.g. the OFS, Designated High quality Physique, Competitors and Market Authority, and different Skilled or Regulatory requirements and businesses.

Proactively assist colleagues to take care of and improve high quality assurance requirements and the popularity for excellence in educating of the Self-discipline space.

Proactively assist portfolio and curriculum improvement/ evaluation for the Self-discipline space, guaranteeing curriculum content material and supply is each academically wonderful and galvanizing, in addition to sustainable in useful resource phrases.

Actively take part in School and College Committees as acceptable.

For full particulars, please see the hooked up Job Description

Individual specification
Important Standards
{Qualifications}

• Educational/skilled {qualifications} (at a minimal of a postgraduate stage) and substantial expertise in self-discipline space
• Registered with an expert regulator HCPC, NMC or SWE as examples.
• Maintain or decide to working in the direction of a PhD/Skilled Doctorate or alternatively display equal standing in skilled observe or experience
• Fellow of the Larger Training Academy
• Senior Fellow of the Larger Training Academy (to be achieved inside 3 years of graduation date in publish)

Expertise

• Management expertise inside a tutorial context; line managing massive groups
• Vital educating expertise in HE
• A complete understanding of exterior HE sector and present points
• A robust dedication to the institutional mission and strategic targets
• Present private scholarship and analysis in a related area of endeavor.  
• In depth curriculum improvement expertise in a related space
• Substantial expertise of high quality programs and high quality assurance and enchancment

Expertise, data & talents

• Perceive the significance of setting and assembly stretching targets and targets regarding organisational goals and efficiency indicators.                       
• Demonstrable abilities in tutorial management and administration with confirmed capacity to ship by folks
• Sturdy enterprise / industrial acumen to establish alternatives for progress potential,  and the power to generate earnings, together with through third stream earnings with trade, handle budgets and interpret monetary data for good monetary stability
• Means to develop impactful analysis profile and exterior tutorial enterprise actions for self and others
• Confirmed capacity to foster efficient communication and collaborative working inside a Faculty
• A dedication to display and promote the College core values
• Versatile and adaptable, demonstrating good time administration/planning abilities and dedication to assembly deadlines        

Enterprise necessities

• Contribute to the broader management of the Faculty and School
• Means to journey overseas for enterprise
• Availability to work, when vital, at weekends and in the course of the evenings to attend Open Days and different College actions in different exterior actions
• Proof of constant skilled improvement
• Accomplished Enhanced DBS with Barred Verify                                       

Fascinating Standards
{Qualifications}

• Skilled observe or industrial expertise in a related space
• Skilled qualification related to the Self-discipline Space

Advantages

In addition to aggressive pay scales, we provide beneficiant vacation entitlement. We additionally provide alternatives for additional wage development based mostly on efficiency, and the chance to affix a contributory pension scheme.

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How you can apply

You possibly can apply by submitting an internet utility. After getting signed in or registered with us it is possible for you to to start your utility. If you’re creating an account for the primary time, please make sure you present an e mail deal with that you simply entry recurrently as this will probably be our major technique of contacting you concerning your utility.

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In the event you require any help, together with the availability of any documentation in an alternate format, please contact the Recruitment staff at [email protected] .

Please word all functions should be submitted on-line by Midnight GMT on the time limit of the emptiness.

Vital data

Purposes from job seekers who require sponsorship to work within the UK are welcome and will probably be thought-about alongside all different functions.

While this position is eligible for sponsorship beneath the Expert Employee Route, we advocate that you simply assess your particular person eligibility earlier than making use of for this place.

Go to https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa for extra data.

To be eligible for sponsorship you will need to present proof that you simply maintain all important {qualifications} listed on the job description. Please word, equal expertise is not going to be accepted as proof of the important {qualifications}.

DBS verify

If you’re profitable, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) verify. The publish for which you might be making use of is exempt from Part 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 requiring any spent convictions to be declared. Any data you present will probably be handled in confidence and solely used when contemplating your suitability for the publish.

To allow us to course of your DBS verify please guarantee you’ll be able to provide the documentation listed on the DBS web site at interview stage.

What’s Adaptive Working?

Adaptive working is about enabling a high-performing, versatile, and responsive work tradition the place the place, time, and method of working are tailor-made to the precise work exercise. This strategy ensures that the working setting, together with each bodily and social environment, helps staff to carry out at their finest and meet the college’s evolving wants.

As well as, adaptive working entails deliberately designing workspaces to assist a spread of actions and disciplines, offering the precise setting for significant in-person connections and efficient collaboration. This consists of guaranteeing that staff have entry to the required gear and assets from their first day on the college.

Adaptive working encompasses totally different modes of working reminiscent of site-based, distant or hybrid working. It’s a broad framework inside which all employees can function successfully in line with their position.

Fairness, range and inclusion

The College of Derby is dedicated to selling fairness, range and inclusion. Nevertheless you establish, we actively have fun the data, expertise and skills every individual brings. Our college students come from a variety of backgrounds; due to this fact we’re notably to listen to from candidates who will assist our leaders and groups be extra reflective of our pupil inhabitants.

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Why be part of Derby?

Difficult, fascinating and consistently altering, the College of Derby is a unprecedented place to study and an extremely rewarding place to work.

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