Associate Professor in Interprofessional Education

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We are seeking an exceptional academic leader to join our team as Associate Professor of Interprofessional Education (IPE). This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of collaborative healthcare education and research.

You will provide strategic leadership and discipline-specific expertise across interprofessional education, supporting the development and delivery of innovative, employment-focused programmes that prepare students for effective team-based practice. You will champion high-quality IPE initiatives underpinned by research and scholarship, with a particular focus on skills, simulation, and practice learning. Working with external partners, including NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards, and the voluntary sector, you will ensure our programmes and research make a real-world impact.

In addition to research leadership, you will make asignificant contribution to School leadership, supporting strategic initiatives and mentoring colleagues. You will also play a key role in advancing learning and teaching, ensuring our programmes are engaging, research-informed, and aligned with professional standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide academic leadership and role modelling within and across programme areas.
• Lead and advance research and knowledge exchange activities in inter-professional education.
• Develop and secure major research funding bids.
• Supervise doctoral students and mentor colleagues across the research career pathway.
• Contribute to innovative teaching and curriculum development at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels.
• Drive the development of skills, simulation, and practice learning initiatives.
• Engage with health and social care partners to translate research into policy and practice.
• Lead specified initiatives at School, College, or University level.

The University of Worcester is a forward-thinking institution with a strong reputation for teaching excellence, research impact, and an inclusive culture. Our School of Nursing and Midwifery is committed to improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities through education, research, and collaboration.

Main Duties*:

1. To provide strategic leadership and discipline-specific expertise across inter-professional education (IPE). To provide leadership across Schools, including the School of Nursing and Midwifery, to deliver high-quality, student-centered teaching and high-quality research and / or knowledge exchange. To support the ongoing development, delivery and evaluation of innovative, employment focused IPE programmes to prepare students for effective interprofessional practice in their respective fields.

This may include the development and leadership of new postgraduate programmes.

2. To lead the development of research aligned to Professional Education through the initiation of collaborative relationships with the Health Professions Education and Practice Research Group. To champion high quality IPE initiatives underpinned by research and scholarship, with a particular focus on Skills, Simulation and Practice Learning. This will include working with external partners, including those in our regional health and social care sector, patients and carers, and the VCSE sector, to inform developments across our wider, national health and social care ecosystem.

3. To lead and advance research and knowledge exchange activities across the School of Nursing and Midwifery, working from an approach of interdisciplinarity and fostering innovation.

Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact:

4. Work in conjunction with others to apply subject knowledge to practice and innovative research. To lead research in areas aligned to Inter-Professional Education, ensuring their effective management and delivery of outcomes

5. Work in partnership with stakeholders drawn from across our Integrated Care Systems to develop excellent research which advances our understanding of Inter-Professional Education more broadly, for the benefit of health and care professionals, patients, residents and system.

6. Contribute to the development and delivery of a programme of knowledge exchange which translates research into policy and practice.

7. Make a significant contribution to a portfolio of research outputs such as would be recognised as at least internationally excellent in the context of national research assessment.

8. Supervise doctoral students to successful completion.

9. Contribute to maintaining and developing the research infrastructure of their discipline nationally through, for example, acting as a reviewer and referee for relevant journals and funding bodies, acting as member or chair of relevant committees and networks.

Leadership and Management:

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