UCL INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow Ref: 1485411

UCL INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (UCL) JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow

Research Department: ORBIT UCL Institute of Ophthalmology 11-43 Bath Street London EC1V 9EL

Reports to Professor Sue Lightman

Grade: CL9

Period of appointment: 1 year in the first instance

The project

This post is to further develop and deliver the clinical teaching degree programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in ophthalmology at UCL/IOO.

1. The Role

This new post is a key development adding to the current team involved in expansion of the degree programmes in Clinical Ophthalmology offered by UCL /IOO. Of major importance is the development and delivery of elearning programmes and the flipped classroom approach Experience in this area is required as well as experience in delivery of taught knowledge and practical skills at all levels including medical students, ophthalmic trainees allied professionals and consultants.

2. Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of elearning materials required for all taught courses • Assist in the development of flipped classroom teaching materials • Assist with delivery of the expanding teaching commitments to undergraduates and postgraduates • Assist with development of the curricula and exams for the new Msc in Ophthalmology with clinical practice • Carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job, the title of the post and its grading as requested by Professor Sue Lightman with whom this work will be undertaken

2 3. Person Specification

Requirements Criteria Assessed E / D* A/I*

1. Education, Qualifications and Training

Medical degree and evidence of post residency E A fellowship training in medical retina and uveitis.

Possession of a Higher Degree E A

2. Skills, Ability

To have experience of teaching undergraduates and E A post graduates

To have experience of developing elearning materials E A

To be able to teach practical skills in ophthalmology as E A appropriate to all levels of skill

To be able to demonstrate clinical signs to all levels of E A students

To be clinically experienced and be able to function E A independently so that the correct patients can be selected for teaching purposes

Ability to work to strict deadlines and manage time E I effectively, good organisational skills

To work within the team to deal with delivery of lectures E I at short notice

3. Experience

Experience with the requirements of different types of E A/I higher degrees offered

Experience in managing computer programmes used in D A elearning

Experience of delivering taught knowledge and practical E A/I skills at all levels including medical students, ophthalmic trainees, allied professionals and consultants.

3 Experience in management of large clinic numbers E A

4. Knowledge

Good knowledge of clinical ophthalmology particularly in E A/I the field of retina

Knowledge of computer packages including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and D A statistical packages

5. Personal qualities

Ability to undertake clinical and classroom based E I teaching

Commitment to high quality teaching E A/I

Capacity to be flexible in approach to work E A/I

Good teaching skills E A/I

Ability to work effectively as part of a team E A/I

Ability to communicate effectively to supervisors, team E I members and collaborators outside the institute

Ability to follow instructions accurately E A/I

Experience of assessments in a variety of different E A/I modes

Ability to act upon own initiative when need arises E A/I

Commitment to learn and readily master new techniques E A/I

Commitment to UCL’s policy of equal opportunity E I

Commitment to work harmoniously with colleagues of all E A/I cultures and backgrounds

4 * E = Essential; D = Desirable; A = Application; I = Interview

4. Conditions of Appointment

Appointment

The post is graded as Grade CL9 (salary range £53,086 to £65,186 including London Allowance of £2919 per annum); starting salary dependent on successful candidate’s skills and knowledge relevant to the post. Cost of living pay awards are negotiated nationally and are normally effective from 1st April each year. Funds are available for one year in the first instance.

Disclosure and Barring Service check Any offer of employment will be subject to a DBS check.

Location

This post is based at IOO and also includes work at

For details of the terms and conditions for this post see the following link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/salary_scales/Support_Research_tcs.php

Equal Opportunities

Our policy includes the provision that in recruitment, the only consideration must be that the individual meets or is likely to meet the genuine requirements of the job. No one will be discriminated against on the basis of gender, age, race, colour, ethnic origin, physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, caring or parental responsibilities, or belief in any matters including religion and politics.

General Information:

Please note that, within reason, the duties and role of the post-holder may be changed after appropriate consultation in response to changing organisational requirements. The post-holder will be eligible to join a contributory occupational pension scheme. All staff must maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations. They should actively follow all UCL policies including Equal Opportunities, attend staff meetings and undertake such training as is required by the post.

For further information about the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, please visit our website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/

5 Details of how to apply for the post

Applications can be made online at the following link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL) http://www.ucl.ac.uk

UCL is one of the UK’s premier universities. It is a world-class research and teaching institution based in London whose staff and former students have included 29 Nobel Prize winners. Founded in 1826, it was the only university in England at that time which admitted students regardless of race or religion. UCL was also the first to admit women on equal terms with men. Today UCL is a friendly university in which to work and study and it continues to thrive on the diversity and creativity of its community.

The UCL community

UCL’s annual turnover was over £1bn in the latest financial year and it employs nearly 12,000 staff. In total, there are 70 Academic Departments and Institutes whose activities span the following: arts and humanities, social and historical sciences, law, architecture and the built environment, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences, life and clinical sciences, and medicine. UCL’s academic and research staff are a truly international community with a third coming from 84 countries outside the UK.

UCL has nearly 36,000 students from over 150 countries. 52% of the students are engaged in graduate studies, with nearly a third of these graduate students pursuing research degrees.

UCL’s academic community includes 53 Fellows of the Royal Society, 51 Fellows of the British Academy, 15 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 117 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Quality of UCL’s teaching and research

UCL is consistently rated among the top four universities in the UK (together with Cambridge, Imperial College and Oxford) and in the 20 best universities in the world.

In the UK’s latest UK Research Assessment Exercise (REF2014), UCL came second overall behind Oxford but ahead of Cambridge (based on the percentage of work rated 4*, or “world leading”, multiplied by the number of staff submitted). When looking at the share of both 4* and 3* (“internationally excellent”) work, UCL comes on top. In the unit of assessment covering Psychology, Psychiatry & , UCL was the top-rated university on both measures of power by a long way. Similarly UCL came top in Clinical Medicine and for the overarching Panel A covering the Life, Medical and Healthcare Sciences disciplines.

For more information about UCL’s REF2014 results, including case studies highlighting the real-world impact of its research, see www.ucl.ac.uk/ref2014.

6 According to independent analysis, UCL also won the largest funding allocation from UK Research Councils in 2013 (£135m), and it has the greatest number of prestigious Doctoral Training Centres.

UCL attracts the third highest number of academic citations per faculty member in the UK (QS 2013), and UCL research in Neuroscience and Behaviour is ranked second in the world using Thomson Reuters ISI Essential Science Indicators.

UCL has the best academic to student ratio in the UK (1:10), enabling small class sizes and outstanding individual support (Times 2013); and it is one of the top two UK universities for the number of professors, which means that our students are taught by the most highly qualified experts in their field (Higher Education Statistics Agency 2011).

UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences (SLMS; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/) brings together four UCL Faculties to create one of the largest and most prestigious aggregations of academics in biomedical, life and population health sciences. The School has a global reputation for teaching informed by cutting-edge research. A full profile of the School can be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/about-us.

In 2011, SLMS was restructured into the Faculties of (i) Brain Sciences (ii) Life Sciences (iii) Medical Sciences and (iv) Population Health Sciences. These structural changes have further enhanced the exceptionally strong base of research and teaching in biomedicine at UCL. In addition to its Faculties, the School also coordinates nine Research Domains (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/domains) which are informal networks that bring together researchers regardless of their host Faculty. Colleagues engage in as many of the domains as are relevant to their area of research activity, encouraging interdisciplinarity across our School and beyond.

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/) undertakes world- leading research and teaching in neurology and neural pathways, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, language, cognition and the sensory systems responsible for speech, hearing and vision. It takes an integrative approach to the study of mind and brain by focusing on the determinants of human perception, cognition, emotion and behaviour.

We are recognised as world leaders in our fields and our work attracts staff and students from around the globe. UCL neuroscience has the highest level of ISI citations in Europe, and is ranked second worldwide (behind Harvard), in the field of neuroscience and behavior. According to the latest National Student Survey (2014), 97% of the Faculty’s final year undergraduates were satisfied with their course, the highest overall rate at UCL. Our graduates are also highly employable, with 90% of our undergraduates in work or further study six months after graduation, and 89% of Masters students and 96% of PhD students in graduate employment (DLHE survey 2013).

The Faculty of Brain Sciences comprises:  UCL Institute of Neurology (Queen Square, WC1) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/  UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WC1) http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/  UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (Bath Street, EC1) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/  UCL Ear Institute (Gray’s Inn Road, WC1) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/  UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences (WC1) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/

7  UCL Division of Psychiatry (Riding House Street, WC1) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

The Institute of Ophthalmology is one of a number of specialised biomedical research centres within UCL and is, together with Moorfields Eye Hospital, world’s leading centres for eye health, vision research and training.

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology conducts cutting-edge science, attracting research workers of the highest international calibre. In recognition of the Institute’s international standing, the most recent HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) Research Assessment Exercise confirmed the outstanding quality of research carried out at the Institute. The Institute also received highest possible ratings in the previous three Research Assessment Exercises.

The researcher of tomorrow is critical to our goal of improving sight. To this end, we are involved in graduate training of research students (MD, MPhil, PhD) and our contributions to UCL undergraduate and taught graduate teaching are increasing year by year.

The Institute is committed to a multi-disciplinary research portfolio that furthers an understanding of the eye and visual system linked with clinical investigations targeted to specific problems in the prevention and treatment of eye disease. The combination of the Institute’s research resource with the resources of Moorfields Eye Hospital, which has the largest ophthalmic patient population in the Western World, opens the way for advances at the forefront of vision research and provides an unparalleled setting for research and training in ophthalmology.

IT facilities are available to all staff and the Institute has modern, well-equipped laboratories which cater for academic staff whose specialities fall within the remit of four Research Departments:

 Cell Biology  Genetics  Ocular Biology and Therapeutics  Visual Neuroscience

The Institute employs around 270 staff, has a budget of £25m and is located next to the City of London’s main financial district near Old Street Underground station, a short distance from Liverpool Street Rail station.

The Institute of Ophthalmology is taking a pro-active approach to promoting career development for female staff and students, such as careers events and seminars from inspirational female speakers. We have recently been awarded the Silver Athena SWAN award. See the following link for more information: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/ioo/athena- swan

8 To find out more about our research and teaching visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/

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