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Job Opportunity: Associate Tutor - Academic Assessor for Nursing Associate; Nursing or Midwifery Pra:Job description:Job location: Ormskirk Part time flexible hours Your discipline. Your passion. Our success, together. About the function The Academic Assessor is a function within the NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (2018) ensuring: » A fair/objective assessment of students; » A point of contact for practice staff with assessment/ concerns about student behaviour/ conduct or assessment, » A point of advice for practice assessors and practice managers. The post holder will provide an element of student support, liaising with key university contacts to support students' educational achievement, professional proficiency and practice. The post holder is expected to work in the house, although flexibility to meet with Practice Assessors at key times during practice assessment period is essential. About You You will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student practice. A significant NMC professional registration is essential i.e., Nursing Associate, Registered Nurse or Midwife with practice of person-centred care across learning discapability, Mental Health, Children/ young people, Frailty/older people or childbearing women and birthing people and babies. For Nursing and Midwifery, a first level degree is required with evidence of recent significant post registration qualifications essential to demonstrate your contemporary knowledge of professional practice. Evidence of effective teaching practice in clinical practice, with pre-registration students and/or staff is advantageous, although these functions provide opportunity to advance your educational practice. We are pursuing staff who would be interested to further their knowledge of practice assessment, through undertaking the function of Academic Assessor. You are required to hold or be working towards a Post Graduate certificate in Higher Education/ Clinical Education and be willing to become an Advance HE fellow (support for this will be given). To be prosperous you will further enrich our students' practice through your skills and subject knowledge as evidenced through your qualifications and practice. In return, you will join a forward thinking and dynamic team that pushes the boundaries of curriculum development within Nursing Associate/ Nursing/ Midwifery. compensates & Benefits From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions and academic development opportunities along with an award winning and comprehensive staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). About Us ?A great success story? an institution that improves and impresses year after year? - Times Higher Education. We are recognised for our outstanding achievements in student satisfaction, staff engagement, graduate employment and innovation as well as our strengthening research profile, investment and growth. The Times Higher ?University of the Year' award also celebrated our distinct function in ?transforming lives? - reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence. You'll be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named Modern University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 and shortlisted for the overall UK University of the Year award. Edge Hill has also recently been awarded University of the Year in the Educate North Awards (2021) in recognition of our continued commitment to deliver an exceptional student practice and the exceptional progress we have made to deliver investment and innovation over the past 12 months, while placing students at the heart of everything we do. For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Professor Jacqueline Leigh, Director of Nursing and Midwifery Education at Leighj@edgehill.ac.uk At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society. Skills:
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