Vacancy Type/Job category
Academic
Department
Warwick Medical School, Health Sciences
Salary
£28,929 - £32,411 per annum, pro rata
Location
University of Warwick, Coventry
Vacancy Overview
Open to Internal Candidates Only
All Graduate Teaching Assistants are University of Warwick students, mostly postgraduates, employed on a fixed-term basis to support academic staff at the University by performing teaching or teaching related duties in line with academic needs and student requirements. GTA positions provide a development opportunity for postgraduate students to enhance their teaching skills in preparation for more senior teaching posts in future and to achieve professional recognition.
GTAs will be employed at the University for a period of 2 years or until they graduate and will be allocated a minimum of 20 hours of work in any one term per any one academic year through the duration of their contract. Postgraduate students must ensure that they receive permission from their PhD supervisor prior to accepting a GTA position, as well as understand their visa and funding limitations.
Case-based learning is a key pedagogical approach taken in the new Health and Medical Sciences course in WMS. Each core module of the HMS course contains 3 cases, each run over two weeks, enabling students to explore aspects of health and medical sciences stimulated by the realistic, real-world scenarios used.
We currently have vacancies for facilitators across the core module, these are:
- Systems: Cell to Society
- Illness: Susceptibility and inequality
- Wellbeing: Mental Health and Neurobiology
- Food: Nutrition and malnutrition
- Infection: Prevention and outbreaks
- Interactions: Environment and genes
- Advanced Cases
Expertise in these areas is not required, your role as a facilitator is to guide students to achieve the learning areas. We're looking for keen, enthusiastic facilitators who can inspire their group by being a good role model; and work with them to ensure they gain the learning that they need from the case.
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
If you are interested in gaining some teaching experience that allows you to work with a small group of undergraduate students as they investigate and learn from cases, then please contact us.
Commitment required: 24 hours over 6 weeks/module, comprising 18 hours F2F and 6 hours prep.
Contact: For more information about the role and to request the dates for facilitation for each module, please contact: Dr Dawn Collins (CBL Lead for HMS) at [email protected]
Person Specification
The Person Specification focuses on the knowledge, skills, experience and qualifications required to undertake the role effectively. This is measured by (a) Application Form, (b) Test/Exercise, (c) Interview, (d) Presentation.
Essential Criteria 1
Good honours degree or equivalent (A)
Essential Criteria 2
High level of proficiency in English, sufficient to undertake facilitation and to communicate effectively with staff and students (C)
Essential Criteria 3
High level of proficiency in English, sufficient to undertake facilitation and to communicate effectively with staff and students (C)
Essential Criteria 4
An aptitude for applying teaching methods and techniques, and encouraging student participation in discussions (C)
Essential Criteria 5
An aptitude to demonstrate and communicate ideas, techniques and/or methods to students drawing on sufficient breadth and depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline (C)
Desirable Criteria 1
Previous experience carrying out small group teaching (A)
Desirable Criteria 2
Experience of effective administration (A)
Desirable Criteria 3
An engagement with inclusive practices in teaching (A)
Desirable Criteria 4
Understanding of equal opportunity issues as they may impact on areas of teaching (C)
Further Particulars
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
Right to work in the UK
We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government website page Apply for a UK visa to see if you are eligible to obtain right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.
Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy
As an organisation using the (DBS) Disclosure and Barring Service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, the University of Warwick complies with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed. More information is available on the University's Vacancy pages and applicants may request a copy of the DBS Code of Practice.
Closing Date
31 May 2024