Faculty of Health

Peninsula Medical School

Ref: A7635

Anatomy Demonstrator

Salary/Grade: £34,804 to £40,322 per annum (pro rata if part-time) – Grade 7

We are inviting applications for a 6-month 1.0 FTE full-time (or 2 or more part-time) Anatomy Demonstrator position(s) from enthusiastic individuals, keen to help our students advance their anatomy knowledge and understanding in an applied context.

The Anatomy Demonstrator post is a developmental opportunity to join our core anatomy education team, to help provide students with support, guidance and high quality anatomy teaching and learning.

Anatomy teaching and learning at the Peninsula Medical School is clinically applied, including topographical and functional anatomy and neuroanatomy.

The Anatomy Demonstrator(s) will primarily teach topographical and functional anatomy, but there is a potential to extend into medical imaging and histology, given appropriate knowledge and experience.

The majority of teaching occurs in small groups, providing you with an opportunity to facilitate hands-on, interactive sessions combining cutting-edge technology, such as the Anatomage system, with topography, working with our team of Model Patients.

We follow a constructively-aligned teaching paradigm, teaching anatomy in the way doctors see it in practice.

Our spiral curriculum encourages deep learning of subjects that are expanded on in different contexts and further depth, through each year of the course, ensuring our students are equipped fully to pursue any specialty they prefer.

We expect you to have excellent anatomy knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills and a willingness to develop your knowledge and skills in anatomy education.  You will be supported in your training needs.  This role offers you an exciting opportunity to develop your educational scholarship and research practice.

This job would be suitable for those seeking to obtain experience in, and further their knowledge and understanding of anatomy and medical education, or those with ambitions to develop and pursue a university clinical teaching role in the future. We welcome applications from those with either a medical/healthcare background or with formal human anatomy expertise and teaching experience.

The primary teaching focus is on the undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS), BMBS with Foundation Year), Diagnostic Radiography (BSc) and postgraduate Physician Associate Studies (MSc) programmes, although there may also be opportunities to provide teaching to clinical and allied health profession staff within the NHS. For more information: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/peninsula-school-of-medicine

Closing Date:         12 Midnight, Sunday 24^th January 2021

Interviews are expected to take place the week commencing the 8^th February 2021.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Dr Siobhan Moyes by email siobhan.moyes@plymouth.ac.uk

Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the University is currently implementing a number of safety measures as per Government advice therefore the successful applicant may be required to work from home in the first instance.

The University of Plymouth is committed to equality of opportunity, promoting a diverse and inclusive culture, demonstrated through our commitment to the gender equality Athena SWAN Charter and as a Stonewall diversity champion. All applications will be judged solely on merit, however, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in the workforce, for example black and minority ethnic groups.

The University of Plymouth holds a TEF (Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework) Silver by the Office for Students.

The Faculty of Health holds a Silver Athena Swan Award and the University holds a Bronze Athena SWAN Award which recognises commitment to advancing women’s careers in STEMM academia.

Staff appointed within the Faculty of Health may be able to join the NHS pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria.

For more details and how to apply please visit www.plymouth.ac.uk/jobs and search for job reference A7635.