Teaching Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE06: £29,619.00 - £34,308.00 Per Annum.
CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute.
Fixed Term Contract - Available from January 2023 to January 2026; Full-Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Talent programme, based at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Tutor who can support provide online teaching support to health and social care workforce studying for their continuing professional development and postgraduate professional development courses in data science.
The Opportunity:
This post will be part of the Teaching Organisation in the Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences (MGPHS) within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (CMVM). The post is a teaching support role within the Talent Health and Social Care (HSC) Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) team at the Usher Institute, which is one of five DDI Hubs as part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region deal. The HSC DDI Talent programme delivers education and training to provide new data capability for the health and social care sector.
A full list of main responsibilities and the knowledge, skills and experience required for the role can be found in the full job description.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Sharon Levy, CPD Lead, ([email protected]) or Kasia Banas, UG Talent Lead, ([email protected]).
- Experience of teaching online
- Knowledge of R, Python and/or other relevant programming language
- Excellent oral communication/presentation skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
Click here for a copy of the full job description.
Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.
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.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
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.
