Associate Professor Physiotherapy

Job responsibilities

1.Act as Head of Division (Physiotherapy, Sport Rehabilitation and Chiropractic. The Head of Division (HOD) has overall responsibility for providing strategic planning and strong academic leadership, direction and management to staff members within the Division, including developing a culture of supportive and collaborative working. The HOD works with the Dean to deliver the University Strategy and achieve excellence in all Divisions activities: teaching, research, and service to the industry, the community and society, and including resource management as appropriate. 2.Maintain quality assurance and carry out the relevant monitoring that is required to meet Institute and University standards. Attendance and participation meetings related to the subject area delivery and development, including Course Boards. Examination Boards and other Divisional, School and University meetings 3.Collaborate with the Course Leads and support staff in curriculum development and curriculum validation process for pre and post qualifying courses in health and social care. 4.Actively support the School, University, and Enterprise activities that promote or develop research, Knowledge Transfer (application) and professional practice 5.Lead consulting projects that are income generating and that enhance our stakeholder partnerships. 6.Actively produce and sustain output of publications in area of specialism suitable for inclusion in the Research Excellence Framework. Review papers, books, other recognised research outputs, and grant applications, both within the University and for other organisations. 7.Support for the core business of the Division, Institute and wider University, including participation in the processes for the recruitment, selection, enrolment, and induction of students and staff. 8.Administrative duties required for the smooth running of the Physiotherapy programmes and those of the Division, including maintaining assessment records and carrying out module evaluations for Divisional programmes in accordance with University regulations. 9.External engagement with the professional discipline, local community, schools and colleges, employers, international partners, NHS colleagues and associate faculty.

Behavioural Framework

Essential

• Student and Service Orientated
• Providing students and stakeholders with a great service is fundamental to all our work. For leaders, it is about having a mindset of seeking out feedback and complaints and seeing them as excellent opportunities to improve. Coupled with the skills to build systems and processes, and to resolve conflicts or disagreements.
• Seeing the Big Picture
• For LSBU, seeing the big picture is about having an in-depth understanding and knowledge of how your role fits with - and supports - organisational objectives and the wider Corporate Plan. For leaders, it is about scanning the internal and external HE/FE context and taking account of wider impacts to develop long term implementation strategies which maximise opportunities to add value to students and support sustainable growth.
• Taking Ownership
• In our organisation, taking ownership is rooted in taking responsibility for the tasks and duties of your role. For leaders it is about ensuring that accountability is role modelled within their own teams, holding others to account, enabling trusting and constructive relationships, making effective decisions, understanding delegation, and encouraging staff development.
• Inclusive Working
• LSBU is a diverse organisation in a diverse community. We focus on inclusive working to ensure all voices are heard and all staff understand the value of contributions which others bring, both inside and outside of their teams. For leaders it is about actively demonstrating how they listen to and acknowledge all contributions and viewpoints.
• Outcome Focused
• It is crucial for us to deliver an excellent experience for students and customers, so we want staff who can seek out and implement solutions - balancing quality, effectiveness, and outlay. For leaders, it is about building a performance culture where staff are given space, authority, and support to deliver outcomes. Its also about keeping a firm focus on priorities and addressing performance issues resolutely, fairly and in a timely manner.
• Changing and Improving
• We want to work in smarter, more focused ways, so look for staff open to learning from what has worked - as well as what has not worked and who are open to change and improvement. For leaders, this is about creating and encouraging a culture of innovation - and allowing people to consider and take informed decisions. It means continuously seeking out ways to improve the student/ customer experience and build a leaner, more flexible, and responsive LSBU. This includes alternative delivery models such as digital, shared service approaches and hybrid learning.
• Leading and Communicating
• We want people who show a pride and passion for the student experience or support service who can communicate purpose and direction with clarity, integrity, and enthusiasm. Its about championing our values internally and externally. For leaders, it is about being visible, establishing clear direction and a persuasive future vision - managing and engaging with people in a straightforward, truthful, and candid way.

Experience

Essential

• Teaching Experience
• Evidence of ability to meet the teaching needs of the Institute at degree level, postgraduate level (Essential) and undertake PhD supervision in the subject area (Desirable). Evidence of successful partnership working with either the NHS or social care agencies (Essential)Evidence of experience of consulting practice / organisational development in health or care organisations (Desirable)
• Management and Planning
• Ability to contribute to Academic Management and Planning at Division and Institute levels. (Essential) Ability to take a leadership role within the Division/wider Institute with a proven record of management skills including the ability to motivate staff. Able to demonstrate an ability to successfully undertake the management of projects. (Essential)
• Supporting the Team.
• Ability to work as a team member to enhance the quality of taught provision, increase levels of stakeholder satisfaction and support the Division/wider Institute enterprise activities. (Essential). Ability to develop and maintain flexible working relationships across agencies. (Essential)
• Research and scholarship, enterprise, and professional engagement
• Evidence of significant achievement (Desirable) or potential (Essential) to make a substantial contribution to the work of the Division/Institute in respect of at least one of the following three areas:
• Research and scholarship
• Evidence of ability to contribute to the scholarly profile of the Division/Institute and where appropriate, to enhance the Institutes REF submission profile. Evidence of having made a significant contribution to collaborative evidence based practice initiatives in practice
• Enterprise
• Potential to contribute to the income generating activities of the Division/Institute through, inter alia, consultancy, CPD provision, KTPs, and contributing expertise. Participation in successful funding applications to support research activity. Evidence of competent budgetary management of income from consulting projects and research grants (Desirable).
• Professional engagement
• Ability to link professional/industry experience to pedagogic practice to enhance the Division/Institute aims and vision. Ability to contribute to curriculum, module and course development to enhance the Division/Institute portfolio.
• Communication and IT Skills
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills including oral, written/literacy, numeracy and presentation, underpinned by the ability to use IT to support students and discharge administrative responsibilities: MS Office and Outlook. (Essential). Evidence of the use of VLEs in teaching (e.g. Blackboard/Moodle) (Desirable). Ability to and experience in presenting research and practice development findings and information effectively to large audiences (Essential)

Qualifications

Essential

• A good honours degree in a relevant subject with an appropriate subject specialism

Desirable

• A postgraduate qualification or relevant professional experience or PhD in an appropriate or closely related discipline.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).