This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding midwifery academic to join a highly professional and motivated team to teach across our midwifery programmes at the University of Worcester. The School of Nursing and Midwifery has a reputation for contemporary and innovative Nursing and Midwifery provision, including BSc Midwifery, Midwifery Degree Apprenticeship, MSc Midwifery (Shortened) and postgraduate modules.
The focus of this post is the delivery and leadership of pre-registration BSc Midwifery to ensure that midwives at the point of registration, are equipped to provide skilled, knowledgeable, respectful and compassionate care. Women, birthing people and families are at the heart of our teaching, and this is reflected in our knowledgeable, kind and committed students. The successful individual will work alongside the Lead Midwife for Education (LME), in the role of Course Leader (minimum of two years) to manage day-to-day operations, quality assurance, curriculum design, and midwifery student experience
The post holder should be able to draw on their own subject knowledge and will be committed to promoting evidence based best practice that underpins critical thinking, leadership, decision-making and problem-solving skills required to enable midwifery students to fulfil their role. By utilising expert knowledge and skills, the post holder will lead agreed modules, assess students and supervise projects.
The School of Nursing and Midwifery upholds the University mission to inspire those who teach and those who learn, in an inclusive way, which reflects a collective commitment to equip students and staff with the skills, knowledge and aptitude to make a positive impact on the health of the individuals, populations and communities we serve. The post holder will therefore be provided with the opportunity to advance their professional development to meet the needs of the post and objectives of the school.
What's in it for you?
Annual incremental increase up to £56,535, with the opportunity to progress to £61,759 subject to performance and the university reward scheme
47 days of leave per year (inclusive of bank holidays and University closure days)
Access to a range of benefits such as our Staff Retail Benefits Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Tusker Car Leasing
Wellbeing advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme
In-house training and development support
A friendly, inclusive and supportive culture and work environment
For an informal discussion, please contact Gerry Lucas (Head of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery)
[email protected]
Selection methods:
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to deliver a teaching session, followed by a formal panel interview. The teaching brief is as follows:
Teaching session:
Please facilitate a 15-minute interactive teaching session on a midwifery topic of your choice, suitable for Level 4 undergraduate Midwifery students.
For the purposes of this teaching session, you should assume the audience are Level 4 undergraduate students.
Please note, the teaching session will take place on campus on Day 1 of the selection process (scheduled for Monday 5th October 2026), with successful candidates at that stage progressing to the formal panel interview on Day 2 (scheduled for Monday 19th October 2026).
Please note that if not already an employee of the University of Worcester, the appointed candidate will be employed through our subsidiary company Uniworc Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of University of Worcester. Appointees of Uniworc Limited will automatically be enrolled into the Aviva FlexHE defined contribution pension scheme (subject to earnings and other eligibility criteria).
Please note that this post may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route if your individual circumstances enable this in accordance with the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information on how the Skilled Worker visa rules may apply to you please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
