Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our staff and students.

About You

A registered healthcare practitioner and an experienced educationalist and leader, you will have an excellent track-record of developing the student experience in a higher education setting. You will have an excellent reputation for outstanding management and leadership with great emotional intelligence, having led provision of a nursing and/or health professional academic programme, with its commensurate complexities with measurable excellence of outputs.

You will have a wealth of experience of curriculum development from concept through to delivery, graduation and alumni. You will live and breathe quality assurance and enhancement, being driven by the need to ensure equity and excellence of the curricula and ultimate student experience.  You will have a track record in research and scholarly activity, and strong evidence of achievements in enterprise. In undertaking your role, you will have a reputation for working collaboratively with colleagues in a clear, responsive and transparent manner.  

A creative, strategic thinker and an inspirational leader, you will be able to manage change at both a strategic and operational level. You will also be well organised, with excellent communication, networking and relationship-building skills.

About the Role

This role is based upon our excellent achievements and growth to date. We recognise the need to strengthen our nurse education department further in times of rapid change. This role spans across the nurse education portfolio, which have been ranked top in the country for practice-based learning in the National Student Survey. In order to achieve this we are seeking an exceptional individual to join us.

As Director of Nursing Education you will be a member of the senior management team and provide direction and leadership for the Head of Department: Nurse Education. Your role will be to provide strategic leadership to the department, working closely with Associate Deans and the Heads of Departments to enable continued enhancement of a contemporaneous curricula, leading cutting edge research and ultimately an excellent quality student experience. You will be the driving force in supporting the department in meeting the challenges of change within today’s dynamic and volatile health sector.

As such, you will strategically lead in delivering innovative learning and teaching, as well as high levels of student achievement and student satisfaction. Quality assurance and enhancement will determine much of your approach in this aspect.  In particular, you will ensure all educational programmes in the nurse education portfolio reflect current healthcare agendas, and provide high-profile research leadership. In cognisance of the clinical expectations of academic credibility within this area, a key feature of your role will be in leading and developing, in collaboration with the Faculty’s professoriate, the research development of the respective teams.

As part of the senior management team you will also be expected to utilise a progressive and responsive leadership style in meeting the needs of the nurse education area as well as in contributing positively to the innovative performance and development of the wider Faculty. Make no mistake, this is an opportunity to build your academic profile as you help to build ours, on a regional, national and international level.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

As a senior colleague at Edge Hill University you will have access to a generous pension scheme, opportunity for corporate healthcare and an environment in which you can make a difference.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions like ‘Mental Toughness’ or ‘Leading with emotional intelligence’ you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, book to get a trim from our onsite hairdresser, your car valeted, or get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights and so much more.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

“A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

Excellence is what Edge Hill University is about and having received Gold for the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework Award, of which we are justifiably proud, it’s what others think we’re about as well. Edge Hill is a dynamic university with a clear sense of direction, a forward-thinking culture with significant resources, 38 million for year 2016, to invest in its, and most crucially, our students’ future.  Hence, graduate employability and social mobility as well as an overall 225% increase in the volume of academic staff submitting research in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), are but two areas that serve to reinforce our drive for, and our celebration of our role in ‘transforming lives’ recognised as our distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

Within the Faculty of Health and Social Care around 4,000 health professionals are educated at Edge Hill every year. In order to achieve this the Faculty is housed in a £14 million purpose-built building, with an additional bespoke satellite campus in Manchester, each with industry standard simulation equipment to give students as realistic a learning experience as possible. We also have a close relationship with a wide range of major NHS Foundation Trusts and health and social care organisations across the North West of England.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, (remove if satellite site) Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about the position you may wish to contact Dr Julie Williams Associate Dean and Director of Healthcare Professions Education at williaju@edgehill.ac.uk

To apply, please visit our website by clicking on the apply button below.

Closing date: Tuesday 26 September 2017.