Associate Professor of Pharmacy University College London United Kingdom

This is a full-time permanent role.

The Associate professor (Teaching and Research) is a senior member of the research department of Practice and Policy. They will in collaboration with others, lead the delivery of the professional and clinical elements of the undergraduate and postgraduate programs which are designed for pharmacists in the UK and elsewhere.

The Research Department offers an integrated Clinically Enhanced Pharmacist Independent Prescribing (CEPIP) course developed to enable pharmacists to acquire history taking and physical examination as part of their the UCL independent prescribing training. The department is also reasonable for the quality assurance, accreditation, and monitoring of experimental and learning sites for the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) and postgraduate professional pharmacy programs.

The successful candidate is expected to lead the CEPIP Course for both undergraduates and postgraduates and to lead or support the innovation and transformational changes in curriculum development, course design and the development of teaching materials on the integrated courses for MPharm undergraduate program and/or the taught postgraduate programs.

About you

The successful candidate will be a UK registered pharmacist and experienced educator, you will the lead on the design of innovative/transformational changes to the UGT/PGT pharmacy practice curriculum, identifying suitable teaching methodologies and techniques. You will also lead and be responsible for designated courses/modules, lectures and workshops.

You will develop and design teaching materials including handouts and course work related to curriculum development. Proactively engage in regular curriculum review and development, contribute to the assurance and enhancement of teaching quality and the student experience, whilst contributing to the strategic development of new pharmacy courses. You will lead and be responsible for designing and implementing assessment methods for registered pharmacists, including examinations and course work and providing feedback.

You will be responsible for the quality, audit and other external assessments for the assurance and enhancement of teaching quality of UGT/PGT practice programmes in collaboration with external colleagues in hospital pharmacy sites.

UCL School of Pharmacy is one of the world's leading centres of excellence for pharmaceutical science, education, and professional engagement. The school has a well-established track record in high quality research across a broad range of drug delivery, drug discovery, pharmacy, and patient safety related areas as well as in the development of spinout companies bringing new therapeutic strategies to the patient.

The UCL School of Pharmacy is located within the Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) and is one of five areas that constitute the faculty the others being the Division of Biosciences, the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neurocircuits and Behaviour and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.

The faculty has been associated with seven Nobel Laureates and continues to build on its existing strengths in cell and developmental biology, evolutionary and population genetics, cellular and circuits neuroscience, and structural and molecular biology.

The merger with the School of Pharmacy in 2012 provided new opportunities in drug discovery; additionally, the faculty hosts joint appointments with the Francis Crick Institute.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)


• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme


• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)


• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan


• Immigration loan


• Relocation scheme for certain posts


• On-Site nursery


• On-site gym


• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay


• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service


• Discounted medical insurance


Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

• Our department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.


You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion