Lecturer in Health Professions Education

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Lecturer in Health Professions Education, Dublin

Client: RCSI

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

10.08.2025

Expiry Date:

24.09.2025

Job Description:

Post Date: 31-Jul-2025

Close Date: 21-Aug-2025

Title: Lecturer in Health Professions Education

Department: Health Professions Education Centre (HPEC)

Location: 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2

Reporting to: Director of HPEC

Contract: Full-time permanent post

Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI): RCSI is a community of academic, research, clinical and professional staff working collaboratively to lead the world to better health. Here, you will thrive in an innovative and inclusive atmosphere and your personal development and wellbeing will be supported. We invite you to join us to help deliver on our exciting mission "To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health".

We seek candidates whose experience to date has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to the "Race Equality Action Plan 2025-2029" at RCSI. Our students come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. This makes our university stronger and ensures we hire the best talent.

Innovating for a Healthier Future 2023-2027 is RCSI's new five-year strategic plan. Through it, RCSI will enhance human health by meeting the health workforce needs of society, creating the insights and inventions that drive health improvements, and working in partnership with patients and the public in support of better health and well-being for all. The strategy unites the RCSI community in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals – with a particular focus on Goal 3, which targets good health and well-being.

For each of the last six years, RCSI has been positioned in the Top 300 of universities worldwide in the Times Higher World University Rankings. We are proud that RCSI ranks fifth in the world for "Good Health and Well-being" in the Times Higher Education #SDG #SDG Impact Rankings 2024. This reflects our commitment to supporting people of all ages to live healthy lives and our work to promote the concepts of well-being and positive health.

In 2024, RCSI was delighted to be named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in Ireland. At RCSI, our core values of Respect, Collaboration, Scholarship, and Innovation are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive environment where every colleague is valued and empowered to thrive. Our dedication to these values ensures that we foster a culture of mutual respect, open collaboration, continuous learning, and innovative thinking. Join us at RCSI, where your contributions will be recognised, and you will be part of a dynamic team making a real impact on global health.

About HPEC

RCSI's Health Professions Education Centre (HPEC) provides healthcare professionals with a wide range of teaching, learning and educational research opportunities, from formal qualifications to in-house training sessions. The Centre also helps RCSI educators generate new knowledge about health professions education and focuses on bringing this to an international audience through educational research and via conference attendance and academic publications.

HPEC has embarked on an ambitious strategic plan, expanding its range of externally facing postgraduate qualifications designed to meet the learning needs of health professions educators in a global context. It also seeks to facilitate an educational culture within RCSI of educational expertise to inform and improve the healthcare curricula to ensure graduates are prepared for practice nationally and internationally.

HPEC wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Health Professions Education in the HPEC team to lead the expansion of the PGDip and the development of a Masters in Health Professions Education.

Objective of this post

The Lecturer in Health Professions Education will contribute to the development, delivery, and enhancement of RCSI's health professions education programmes, with a primary focus on Graduate Diploma and Masters in Health Professions Education. The successful candidate will be a scholarly educator and an emerging institutional leader in teaching and learning. We are seeking a highly motivated individual from a Health Professions Education background, with experience in the development and delivery of academic postgraduate health professions education programmes. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, experienced, and innovative educator and leader, who works well within a diverse, multicultural academic setting.

Specific responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, implementation, and enhancement of the Graduate Diploma and Masters in HPE and support new and existing health professions education programmes.
• Contribute to the HPEC Strategy by driving faculty development initiatives, including the Peer Observation of Teaching programme and Educational Hub.
• Conduct high quality educational research that informs directions at RCSI and nationally and internationally.
• Publish in high impact journals.
• Promote evidence-based, innovative teaching and learning practices across RCSI.
• Lead and publish educational research to advance knowledge in health professions education.

Other responsibilities

• Promote the highest standards of professional practice in all areas of responsibility.
• Undertake other responsibilities as required and appropriate to the grade.

Candidate Specification: Essential

• PhD in an area relevant to health professions education
• Relevant postgraduate qualification in education
• Significant experience with online learning
• Experience in designing and delivering a programme of health professions education
• Proven track record and commitment to research
• Proven track record of publications in high impact journals
• Experience delivering faculty development
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to build and maintain internal and external networks

Candidate Specification: Desirable

• Previous experience in a postgraduate programme in health professions education
• Minimum of three years' professional experience in faculty development
• Current, relevant experience in academic, health or social care environments
• Track record of gaining research grants

The Process:

Interview and presentation

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a formal competence-based interview and presentation.

Particulars of Post

This post is a full-time permanent position. The appointee will report to the Head of Department or nominee.

Informal Enquiries:

Informal enquiries are invited in the first instance through Rebecca O'Brien, Human Resources Department (email: ). All applications for this post must be made through the career's webpage www.rcsi/careers. Rebecca can arrange for relevant queries on the academic aspects of the role to be addressed by the hiring manager. Please note we do not accept CVs directly.

Employee Benefits

At RCSI, we help care for our people so they can focus on our mission to Educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health. RCSI truly goes above and beyond to support its employees, ensuring they have everything they need to thrive both personally and professionally. Here's a glimpse of the fantastic benefit available:

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