Clinical Associate Professor - Paediatric Dentistry (Research and Education) - Department of De[...]

Position Details

Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £105,504 to £139,882

Clinical

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 10th March 2025

Please note: We are advertising for both a Clinical Associate Professor (97748) and a Clinical Assistant Professor (105419), however there is only 1 post available.

Role Summary

In their role as Clinical Associate Professor, the candidate will contribute to teaching, research, and administration. In addition, the candidate will be expected to contribute to academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.

Teaching will include: (a) development and leadership of major teaching programmes or equivalent; and (b) enhancement of the student experience or employability.

Research will involve an established national and international reputation through significant original research work and a clear record of impact.

Management and administration will include Departmental/School leadership and management activity with University wide involvement – for example through sustained high value research, knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, and public engagement or similar activities.

Clinical service as part of an honorary contract with the Birmingham Community Health Care Trust.

Main Duties

Education

You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:

• Making a significant contribution to the pedagogical knowledge base of the subject that advances teaching through the enhancement of practice, the development of teaching resources and/or through practice-based research;
• Leading on the management and the development of approaches to teaching and learning, including designing innovative approaches to digital resources/environments and supporting colleagues to use them that are innovative to the subject area or institution;
• Leading on curriculum design at module and programme level to ensure it is contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging;
• Actively engaging students in curriculum design and sharing evidence of “what works”;
• Making an impactful, high-quality contribution to debates about education policy, methods and practices through internal and external publications, subject societies and conference activity;
• Developing an external profile evidenced through engaging in external quality assurance activities related to teaching, e.g. external examining and engaging with/supporting education in other institutions;
• Playing an important and sustained role in the recruitment and admission of students;
• Leading the development of teaching, learning and assessment policies and strategies;
• Acting as an education mentor to colleagues in the School/Department/College or more widely;
• Leading the development of new and appropriate approaches to learning and teaching, which may be underpinned by research and evaluation of teaching methods and systems;
• Leading sustained high value impact in knowledge transfer and enterprise (including business engagement, public engagement) that enhances the student experience and/or employability, and is of manifest benefit to learning and teaching in the College and the University;
• Undertaking own teaching, which will include teaching and examining courses at a range of levels, planning and reviewing own teaching approaches, developing programme proposals, supervision, marking and examining. You will ensure that your teaching practice is informed by discipline-based research, through participating in the research culture of the School.

Research

To pursue sustained research activity through original research and scholarship, including other research-related contributions through conference papers and presentations and/or consultancy projects and advice, including (as appropriate):

• Contributing to the management of research activities;
• Consistently publishing internationally excellent research, with some research regarded as world leading, that results in a sustained, highly respected reputation of international quality;
• Providing expert advice internally and externally;
• Peer reviewing articles for peer reviewed academic journals and grant applications by research councils and/or other major funding bodies;
• Leading sustained impact activity including public engagement and making a significant contribution to policy development at a national and international level;
• As appropriate, managing research activities;
• Developing novel methodologies and techniques appropriate to the type of research being pursued.

Management/Administration

Lead activities in the Department/ School and represent the School on College/ University committees or working groups. Where appropriate to the discipline, this is likely to include some but not all of the responsibilities listed below:

• Making an important contribution to the development and running of the Department or School, for example, leading activity on research and/or teaching assessment;
• Leading a successful international engagement at School or College level;
• Making important contributions to the development of the Department’s research and/or learning and teaching strategy;
• Contributing significantly to the development and delivery of knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement and public engagement activities with sustained high value impact of manifest benefit to the College and the University;
• Promoting a culture (including policies and procedures) that embeds equality and values diversity and inclusion;
• Leading, serving on and assisting the work of committees and task and finish groups beyond School/ Research Institute, e.g., Senate, Council, University Education or Research Committee etc.;
• Leading external committees, e.g., those associated with public/professional bodies or delivery of activities for an external body at an appropriate level, e.g., chairing sub committees associated with large elements of work;
• Leading/project managing a team to devise and implement a new and/or revised process (e.g. a new research initiative, or a recruitment drive);
• Making a sustained contribution to widening participation, schools outreach and/or public understanding of the discipline;
• Contributing to administrative activities within the University (e.g. appeals panels, working groups).

Citizenship

• Identifying wellbeing issues within the School/College/University and developing appropriate solutions to address these;
• Taking collective ownership of challenges faced by the School or College and working with colleagues to develop solutions.

Person Specification

• This is a clinical academic post and as such, the post holder should be a dentist who has completed specialist training, is fully registered with a licence to practise with the GDC and participating in clinical appraisal and revalidation;
• Demonstrated competence in Learning and Teaching and Management and Administration.

Learning and Teaching Requirements

An excellent teaching profile and performance in terms of both impact and quality. The teaching quality demonstrated to be informed by an appropriate level of scholarship.

Where appropriate, evidence of success under the following headings:

• Successful and sustained use of a range of appropriate teaching methods, and assessment strategies that promote high quality learning, including learning that is flexible, distinctive and current and stimulates learners’ natural curiosity;
• Significant and sustained contribution to one or more of the following: strategic development of new programmes; approaches to learning; the development of learning resources;
• Track record of substantial and sustained high value impact on the enhancement of the student experience, and/or employability.

Research Requirements

A PhD is a prerequisite for all applicants, along with the required level of experience.

Management and Administration-Related Requirements

Demonstrated significant achievement in management and administration-related activities, which may include leadership of activities/initiatives. Evidence of success under the following headings:

• Successful and sustained contribution to the corporate life of the School/College/University, displaying willingness to contribute actively to committees, collaborative teaching and administrative tasks;
• Actively promotes equality and diversity to internal and external stakeholders;
• Able to use data to identify equality and diversity issues;
• Experience of developing interventions to address equality and diversity issues.

Clinical Service

• To engage in clinical activity in Paediatric Dentistry as guided by the service lead for the department. This could include local sessions within BCHCT or under a service level agreement with surrounding trusts;
• To continue to develop clinical skills across Paediatric dentistry;
• Personal treatment sessions on an outpatient basis with access to inhalation sedation;
• To be involved in formal and informal teaching programmes established in the department supporting junior members of dental and nursing staff;
• To work closely with colleagues in BCHCT, surrounding community trusts and Birmingham Children’s Hospital to develop and strengthen a network for paediatric dental service provision.

OH and DBS Required

The University is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice, therefore all associated pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. Due to the nature of the work undertaken in this role all successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Occupational Health and DBS clearance prior to appointment.

Further particulars can be found here

Informal enquiries to Professor Josette Camilleri, Head of Dentistry, email: J.Camilleri@bham.ac.uk

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