The School of Nursing, Public Health and Healthcare Leadership at the University of Bradford is looking to recruit an External Examiner to cover our pre-registration BSc (Hons) Nursing (Children’s) programme.

You will work as part of a team of five External Examiners, covering all of our pre-registration nursing programmes, which include BSc (Hons) and MNurs programmes. Applications are welcomed from single and dual registered nurses. The appointment is due to commence immediately. The programme jointly recruits a total of around 350-400 students across Adult, Mental Health and Child fields annually across the City Campus and a satellite site at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.

You should have appropriate expertise/experience and a background in the relevant field of nursing, registration on the appropriate part of the NMC register and evidence of scholarly activity. The applicant should be able to undertake a role in the assurance of academic standards in Higher Education and should be aware of modern developments in the design and delivery of the flexible curriculum.

You should not hold more than one other UK Higher Education External Examiner post at the start of the contract and be qualified to at least the level of the programme to be examined.

Further information about the programmes can be found at:

Nursing (Children’s) BSc (Hons) degree – University of Bradford
https://www.bradford.ac.uk/courses/ug/m-nurse-child-mental-health/

For further information about the role please contact the Deputy Head of School, Dr Sasha Ban s.ban@bradford.ac.uk or Dr Michael Tatterton, Head of Nursing Education

Overview of your role and responsibilities includes:

Confirming the comparability of standards of student performance at University of Bradford with those of similar modules at other UK Institutions of Higher Education; confirming that the assessment process in its entirety is sound, and has been fairly conducted with full regard to justice to students; reporting and advising on the above by means of approving coursework and examination papers and providing an annual report to the University.

The appointee will be required to moderate a sample of work and you will also be required to produce an annual report and attend Boards of Examiners as appropriate. The opportunity to meet with students and review practice will also be provided.

The tenure of appointment is for a four-year period, starting immediately.

External Examiners’ fees for taught programmes are calculated according to a formula that takes into account both programme and module responsibilities, the fees for these appointments would vary due to the student number on each of the fields.