School of Education, Sport and Health Sciences
Location: Brighton - Falmer Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 pro rata Closing Date: Sunday 23 November 2025 Interview Date: Thursday 04 December 2025 Reference: EH3273-25-244
We would like you to bring your skills and experience to join our Midwifery team in the School of Education, Sport and Health Sciences, where you will be teaching and supporting students undertaking Midwifery pre‑registration studies.
Essential
In your new role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a creative team, embedding innovative teaching and simulation opportunities on the Falmer campus. You will be working as part of a team who focus on enhancing the student experience and will share in the co‑creation and delivery of this innovative programme. You will be expected to understand and be able to support a range of assessments and clinical practice/teaching in our on‑campus clinical facilities. We are particularly looking to recruit someone with strong professional experience as a Midwife. To be successful in this post, you should have:
* Registration with the NMC as a Midwife and professional experience as a midwife.
* A good first degree in a nursing, midwifery or allied health profession and working towards or have a postgraduate MSc.
* A Higher Education teaching qualification and/or an Advance HE Fellowship, or willingness to undertake this within the first 12 months.
* Up‑to‑date, sound knowledge of current developments in health including current clinical, professional, leadership and policy developments and the range of generic skills required to teach the subject.
* Understanding of academic and award standards and the range and level of knowledge and skills, both subject‑specific and generic, which the programme is intended to foster.
* Experience of leading and implementing creative approaches to developing teaching and learning of Midwifery related skills and knowledge in university and/or practice setting.
* Competent in learning technologies for effective use in teaching, learning and assessment.
Desirable
* Ideally a postgraduate qualification (MSc/PhD).
* A research portfolio and publication record.
* Active membership of national or international professional organisations or research networks to promote subject area.
For informal enquiries please contact the Susanne Simmons, Acute Care Subject Lead, S.J.Simmons@brighton.ac.uk.
Please note that due to the salary for this position, we may not meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. Under the current points‑based immigration system, the minimum salary required for sponsorship without tradeable points for a Lecturer is £51,899 per annum. You can find more information on what tradeable points you may be eligible for and the corresponding salary discount here: The UK's points‑based immigration system: an introduction for employers (accessible version) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Before you apply, please ensure you have checked what visas you are eligible for. You can find more information here: Eligibility to work, visas, and passports (brighton.ac.uk)
For more information on sponsorship and alternative visas, please click the following link: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Further Details
The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non‑belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under‑represented by Minority Ethnic staff.
For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system, with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.
Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.
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