SCHOOL OF NURSING, MIDWIFERY, ALLIED AND PUBLIC HEALTH
The School provides contemporary and relevant programmes to pre-registered and registered health and social care professionals at various levels, seeking to ensure that all meet the needs of stakeholders and regulators.
The MSc integrated Health and Social Care is a new, part-time post-registration CPD course containing a range of modules which students may take as stand-alone or as a part of a range of awards up to full MSc. There is an annual intake of around 30 students for the full MSc and varying numbers for individual modules or PgCerts. The courses have multiple points of entry per academic year depending on the student’s pathway and operate on a trimester calendar. Examination boards are in February, June and October. The course has four core modules, two of which (integrated Person-Centred Care and Leading & Developing Teams) are at the start of the course and the final two (Research Methods in Health & Social Care and Innovation in Practice) being at the end of the course. Remaining modules are optional and include an open module which often links to NHS Trust-based training delivery, and specialist modules on neonatal intensive care, acute adult care, long-term care, end-of life care, renal care and cardiac care.
As this will be a newly validated course, we require two external examiners to be in place for the start of the 2026-27 academic year and ongoing. The outgoing course (the BSc/MSc Healthcare Practice) will continue on teach out for the next couple of years so there will also be requirement for the appointed EEs to take responsibility for some of these outgoing modules.
The newly appointed examiners will be responsible for a range of modules within the course and will be required to sit on progression & award examination boards.
Applications are sought from academics registered with the NMC or HCPC and holding a higher degree qualification (MSc or above). Experience as a subject or programme manager is particularly welcome. Experience of external examining is not essential.
The appointment starts in the academic year 2026-27 for a four-year term.
Informal enquiries to Marissa Dainton, Course Director on marissa.dainton@canterbury.ac.uk or by phone 01227 923731.
Formal expressions of interest by letter with accompanying CV should be sent directly to the above email address.
Closing date for applications is the 16th April 2026.