Visiting Lecturer in Health and Social Care

The role of Associate Lecturer in the School will be required to deliver a range of content either across a range of modules or within a subject area. The role will be hybrid (face-to-face or online) and s/he will have responsibility for ensuring that the students undertaking a specific module or unit engage with the module, fulfil their potential in terms of achievement of learning outcomes and enjoy a high-quality student experience.

Specific duties and responsibilities

• Teaching and Learning
  • Teach a set number of sessions each week, including lectures, seminars, tutorials.
  • Maintain attendance registers for teaching sessions and work with the attendance team to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered for students on digital registers.
  • Deliver/facilitate teaching sessions in line with the approved programme and module specifications.
  • Work in line with Regent Digital provisions including VLEs and MS Teams.
  • Ensure that students are engaging in their sessions.
  • Ensure teaching materials are adjusted for their learners in the classroom.
  • Update class notes and other materials and ensure that the VLE is regularly updated.
  • Make suggestions through appropriate channels how to improve student academic experience.
• Assessment and Marking
  • Set assessments for students and support students to submit assessments for all modules on time.
  • Support the production of assessments for module/unit and ensure these are approved in accordance with the relevant procedures.
  • Participate in standardisation and moderation meetings (as required).
  • Provide students with formative feedback as appropriate.
  • Mark summative assessments according to the approved assessment brief and provide timely and constructive feedback to students within the deadlines published by the Assessment Team.
  • Identify cases of possible academic misconduct and escalate these according to the relevant procedure of assessment boards.
• Student support
  • Ensure any issues of student engagement or performance are addressed, signposting students to specialist College services as necessary.
  • Field any pastoral requirements students may have, signposting them to relevant specialist College services as necessary.
  • Monitor the progress of individual students’ Learning Support Plans, liaising with specialist services as necessary.
• Quality assurance
  • Provide a Module Completion Report at the end of each module.
  • Contribute to Programme evaluations as required.
  • Engage with Programme Committee meetings, contributing towards continuous improvement of the students’ learning experiences and the identification of good practice which other programmes and Schools might usefully draw on.
  • Engage with other parts of the College’s quality assurance and academic governance frameworks, as opportunities arise.
  • Reflect on the outcomes of student module feedback questionnaires, identifying areas for improvement as well as good practice which colleagues might usefully draw on.
  • Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes.
  • Attend relevant meetings as required.
  • Ensure all marking is completed on time and appropriate formative and summative feedback in line with our partners’ guidelines and operational manuals is provided to students.
• Scholarship
  • Participate in scholarship and training activities as offered by the College in support of teaching and learning.

This position requires candidates to undergo a DBS check as part of the application process.