Position Overview & Specifications
UE07 £36,333 - £43,155 Per Annum
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences / Moray House School of Education and Sport / Institute for Sport / Physical Education & Health Sciences
Open Ended (Permanent)
Full time, 35 hours per week
The Institute of Sport, Physical Education & Health Sciences (SPEHS) located within the Moray House School of Education and Sport is looking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Physical Education. In this role, you will be required to contribute to teaching, leading practical activities, placement observations, dissertation supervision, and course management.
We take pride in offering our students a fantastic learning experience through our academic provision and active teaching and scholarship culture. We focus on creating opportunities for students to connect theory and practice, which brings their education to life, prepares them to enter the teaching profession, and equips them to inspire the young people they will be working with.
You must have recent experience of delivering high quality provision within Physical Education. As the successful applicant will be visiting students on placement, we require the successful candidate to possess full GTCS registration.
The Opportunity:
The appointed person will be expected to make a significant contribution to the academic and professional work on the physical education programmes offered within the Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences (SPEHS). This includes the provision of high quality teaching, practical delivery and placement visits.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Master’s level qualification in a relevant field, or equivalent.
- Extensive and recent experience of teaching in schools
- Full registration with GTCS
- Outstanding practical pedagogies
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Interviews will be held in early June 2023.
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The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.