Job title: Associate Lecturer, Research Supervisor
Modules: Research Project
Location: Homebased
Contract term: Self-employed contract, hours as per schedule
Remuneration: £21 per hour
Start Date: January 2025
If you are passionate about education and nutrition and want to develop a generation of already qualified healthcare practitioners seeking to add nutrition to their practice, join the dedicated academic team at ION.
A period of accelerated growth and the launch of new years of of the BSc (Hons) Nutritional Therapy has created an excellent new opportunity for a research supervisor with expertise functional nutrition and nutritional therapy.
Our fun, caring, dedicated, skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences to build our global learning community. We create a unique fusion of education, research, and professional practice to inspire our students. Join us now and be part of building our learning community.
The BSc (Hons) Nutritional Therapy and its associated degree top-up is currently offered part-time over 4.5 years, with online with synchronous weekly sessions, and with a single September and February intakes.
We are now looking to recruit 2 Research Supervisors to join our team in January 2025!
Research Supervisors support students through their undergraduate research journey. The research supervisor will act as a mentor, source of information and facilitator to students as they progress through planning and undertaking a research project.
In this role most supervisors take on 2-4 students per semester. The total paid hours for supervision, marking, and meetings for supervising 2 students per semester would be approximately 33hrs. ION has two semesters per year, so this is equivalent to 66hr per year (note: this is an approximation only, not a guarantee of working hours). Once you have agreed your supervision capacity for each semester you must commit to supporting the assigned students through to the successful submission of their research project.
You will come with:
- A qualification in applied nutrition, nutritional therapy, functional medicine, to least at level 6 or the equivalent experience
- Teaching or training experience in higher education
- Previous experience supervising research projects
- Organisational skills
- Professional body membership/registration (a mandatory requirement for clinical modules only)
- And be self-directed and able to contribute to the team
We offer:
- Supportive environment
- Flexible approach to home working
- Free access to CPD
- Employee assistance programme for you and your family
- A fun working environment with socials throughout the year
For the Job Description and more role details CLICK HERE
Recruitment timeline:
Role commences January 2025
The Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION) is one of the UK’s longest established, independent higher education institutions offering degree and post-graduate courses in functional nutrition and nutritional therapy.
The Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION) is an independent educational charity, registered company number 2724405, registered charity number 1013084. We are committed to and champion equality and diversity in all aspects of employment. All staff are expected to understand and promote equality and diversity in the course of their work.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME), male, and LGBT+ candidates, as they are currently under-represented on our Board. Appointments are made on merit.
For any additional information or queries please feel free to contact Amy Gilham, Corporate Services Officer at ION on jobs@ion.ac.uk.