PGT Teacher (Primary Eye Care Practical)

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PGT Instructor (Major Care)
Faculty of Optometry and Imaginative and prescient Sciences

The revolutionary Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes at WOPEC within the Faculty of Optometry and Imaginative and prescient Sciences, Cardiff College incorporate each distance studying and get in touch with educating. We’re in search of to nominate an element time PGT Instructor to hitch our motivated postgraduate educating staff. The profitable applicant will undertake educating and evaluation in-person inside the Faculty with some occasional on-line provision additionally.  

This put up is for half a day every week on Monday afternoons. To affix the educating staff in our weekly full time MSc Medical Optometry clinic session at Cardiff College and to assist with different educating evaluation actions throughout our portfolio of postgraduate modules. 

You can be assigned a tutorial line supervisor, and the assist of a mentor is offered.

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

Wage: £39,347 – £44,263 every year, plus market complement, professional rata for hours labored (Grade 6).

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 surroundings. We imagine this may be achieved by means of attracting, growing, and retaining a various vary of workers from many various backgrounds.  We subsequently welcome candidates from all sections of the neighborhood no matter intercourse, ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation, trans identification, relationship standing, faith or perception, caring tasks, or age.  In supporting our workers to attain a steadiness between their work and their private lives, we may even think about proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.

Purposes could also be submitted in Welsh, and an software submitted in Welsh won’t be handled much less favourably than an software submitted in English.

Job Description

Principal operate

PGT Lecturers undertake a full educating and evaluation load, together with the event, supply and analysis of modules/programmes inside the postgraduate provision of the Faculty.  They supervise college students in clinics and perform administrative duties inside the work space as required. Additionally they pursue excellence in educating and are anticipated to encourage others to do the identical. The primary duties and tasks embody the next:
Key duties

• Independently contribute to module supply and curriculum growth at postgraduate ranges, together with in-person and on-line programs, inspiring college students.
• Design educating programmes for programs. Contains figuring out studying aims and deciding on acceptable curricula; deciding on educating strategies, assets and studying; figuring out, designing and producing research materials; planning course supply and planning for contingencies resembling slower/quicker progress than anticipated.
• Supervise the work of scholars together with in clinics, placements and the supervision of Grasp’s college students.
• Ship educating programs together with in-person and on-line distance studying. Contains getting ready educating materials, speaking subject material and inspiring essential discourse to develop rational pondering; observing and reacting to pupil interventions; responding to questions exterior class occasions and to contingencies in course supply.
• Provide pastoral care by means of each appearing as a Private Tutor and offering assist and steerage to college students, constructing and establishing belief.
• Perform a big administrative position inside the division or undertake one other important exercise to contribute to the general administration of the division, as required.
• Co-ordinate staff educating, together with liaison with different lecturers about curriculum modifications.
• Perform evaluation for programs. Contains designing evaluation devices and standards; marking assessments, guaranteeing ample moderation; offering written/oral suggestions; judging whether or not pupil circumstances ought to be considered within the evaluation; and collating and offering last assessments of scholars.
• Perform course analysis, together with facilitating pupil suggestions; reflecting on personal educating design and supply; and implementing concepts for enhancing personal efficiency

Basic and Different Duties

• Have interaction successfully with industrial, industrial and public sector organisations, skilled establishments, different tutorial establishments and so forth., regionally and nationally to boost consciousness of the Faculty’s profile, to domesticate strategically precious alliances, and to pursue alternatives for collaboration throughout a spread of actions. These actions are anticipated to contribute to the Faculty and the enhancement of its regional and nationwide profile
• Be sure that an understanding of the significance of confidentiality is utilized when enterprise all duties.
• Abide by all College insurance policies.
• Carry out different duties sometimes which aren’t included above, however which can be in keeping with the position.

Individual Specification

We wish to make use of folks with all kinds of experiences. We welcome functions from all sections of the neighborhood no matter intercourse, ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation, trans identification, relationship standing, faith or perception, caring tasks, or age. We’re notably in search of functions from candidates who come from backgrounds which can be underrepresented on the College, together with folks from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities.
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Important Standards 

Basic Optical Council registration and uphold membership of an NHS Well being Board (or equal) to apply as an Optometrist/Ophthalmologist within the Cardiff College, and/or any related, patient-facing clinics.

Greater Skilled Qualification(s) e.g. Prof Cert Med Ret, Prof Cert Glaucoma, Prof Cert Low Imaginative and prescient, Prof Cert Paediatrics and so forth.

Educating expertise at undergraduate/postgraduate stage.

Efficient educating abilities with the power to ship high-quality lectures and tutorials, facilitate peer discussions and develop personal educating supplies and strategies and meet outlined studying aims.

Wonderful communication abilities with the power to current advanced and conceptual concepts clearly and confidently to others utilizing excessive stage abilities and a spread of media.

Superior optometric scientific expertise within the area acceptable to the course you’ll educate on.

Potential to work collaboratively with colleagues to make acceptable choices on tutorial content material of programs.

Potential to work utilizing personal initiative, with out shut supervision, to plan and priorities personal each day work and plan ahead.

Potential to behave as educating co-ordinator, to make sure pupil wants and expectations are met.

IT competent- Minimal of PowerPoint, Microsoft Phrase and the web.

Fascinating Standards

Postgraduate larger qualification (e.g. MSc) or PhD in a associated topic space or related industrial expertise.

Related skilled/educating and studying qualification e.g., Advance HE Fellowship standing or postgraduate educating qualification.

The power to supply acceptable pastoral assist to college students, recognize the wants of particular person college students and their circumstances and to behave as a private tutor.

Job Class

Educational – Educating & Scholarship