PGT Module Leader (Contact Lenses)

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College of Optometry & Imaginative and prescient Sciences

Instructing & Scholarship

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

The revolutionary Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes at WOPEC within the College of Optometry and Imaginative and prescient Sciences, Cardiff College incorporate each distance studying and phone educating. We’re in search of to nominate an element time module chief to affix our motivated postgraduate educating workforce.  

Module Leaders work to develop, ship and consider modules/ programmes throughout the postgraduate qualification provision within the College. In addition to educating and assessing college students, they’re chargeable for the day after day working of a module, the upkeep of exterior accreditations as applicable and the educating and evaluation together with co-ordinating different members of workers that contribute.  

This put up 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
Instructing and evaluation for this module is delivered on-line though occasional attendance is required in Cardiff. There’s a requirement to ship some dwell educating episodes exterior of normal workplace hours. In particular person 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

Time limit: Sunday, 07 April 2024

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working atmosphere. We imagine this may be achieved by means of attracting, growing, and retaining a various vary of workers 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 workers to realize a steadiness between their work and their private lives, we may even think about proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.

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

Job Description

Foremost operate 

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

Instructing  

•    To behave as a module chief for a postgraduate educating together with co-ordinating with different contributors to make sure supply of a excessive normal of educating to     meet pupil wants and expectations.
•    To contribute to the supply of different modules throughout the identical topic sub-specialty as required.
•    To design applicable educating supplies at a postgraduate degree.
•    To ship postgraduate educating together with recording lectures and delivering tutorials (on-line and in-person).
•    To determine the necessity for growing/ revising the content material or construction of modules and curriculum and make proposals on how this must be achieved.
•    To take care of exterior accreditations as applicable.
•    To show in quite a lot of settings from small group classes to massive 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 applicable time interval.
•    To be chargeable for administrative duties in areas comparable to examinations, evaluation of progress and pupil attendance.
•    To handle tasks referring to personal space of labor and the organisation of exterior actions comparable to sensible days exterior 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     evaluate panel member as required

Scholarship 

•    Contribute to scholarship within the space of labor by means of participation in conferences, seminars and different educational {and professional} boards to disseminate the     outcomes of particular person scholarship
•    Have interaction in scholarly exercise by means of journal articles and/or outputs which advance data throughout the space of labor
•    To mentor colleagues with much less expertise and advise on private improvement.
•    Contribute to scholarship by means of 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 

•    Have interaction successfully with industrial, business and public sector organisations, skilled establishments, different educational establishments and so on., regionally     and nationally to lift consciousness of the College’s profile, to domesticate strategically useful 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 skin world
•    Some other duties not included above, however per the function

Individual Specification

We wish to make use of folks with all kinds of experiences. We welcome purposes 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 notably in search of purposes from candidates who come from backgrounds which can be underrepresented on the College, together with folks from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities.

Your utility shall 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 below each. You possibly can draw on parts from any facet of your life (e.g., work, house, 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 utility within the recruitment system. 

Important Standards 

{Qualifications} and Training 

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

Information, Abilities and Expertise 

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

Pastoral, Communication and Crew Working 

6.    Wonderful communication abilities with the power to current advanced and conceptual concepts clearly and confidently to others utilizing excessive degree abilities and a     vary of media
7.    The flexibility to supply applicable pastoral help to college students, respect the wants of particular person college students and their circumstances and to behave as a     private tutor.
8.    Potential to behave as module chief and co-ordinate with others to make sure pupil wants and expectations are met. 

Different 

9.    Confirmed capacity to show creativity, innovation and teamworking inside work 

Fascinating standards 

1.    Postgraduate diploma at PhD degree in a associated topic space
2.    Qualification in medical educating
3.    Potential to work a couple of evenings and weekends a yr
4.    Rising nationwide status inside educational area
5.    Larger qualification involved lens apply e.g. Skilled Larger Certificates in Contact Lens Follow, Skilled Diploma in Contact Lens Follow     or comparable different.
6.    GOC specialist register for unbiased prescribing.
7.    Proof of capacity to take part in and develop each inside and exterior networks and utilise them to reinforce the educating and analysis actions of     the College
8.    A willingness to take accountability for academically associated administration. 

Job Class

Educational – Instructing & Scholarship