The activities and skills of staff at all job levels throughout the University are currently recognised by their alignment to a number of career pathways.
The four main pathways at the University are:
ERE: Education, research and enterprise
ERE includes job roles such as Professor, Lecturer, Faculty Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Principal Teaching Fellow
MSA: Management, specialist and administrative
MSA includes job roles such as Faculty Executive Officer, Campus Resources Officer, Senior Administrative Officer, Regional Centre Administrator, Faculty Contracts Officer
TAE: Technical and experimental
TAE includes job roles such as Senior Experimental Officer, Faculty Health & Safety Officer, Experimental Officer
CAO: Community and operational
We do not have any employees within Health Sciences under this category. This would be Early Years Partitions, Maintenance, Security, Domestic Services, Catering
The Human Resources website has further information on University Career Pathways.
You can download a Career Pathways Booklet from the Human Resources website.
Clinical Academic Careers
Dr Greta Westwood
Greta has a joint role with the Faculty of Health Sciences and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. In the Faculty she is responsible for developing and coordinating Clinical Academic Careers with our partner NHS organisations. Her corporate role in Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust involves initially establishing and now developing a Clinical academic Nursing, Midwifery and AHP workforce
What is a Clinical Academic?
Clinical academic nurses, midwives and allied health professionals engage in clinical practice and research at the same time. As a result, they provide leadership in the pursuit of innovation and scholarship, along with first class evidence based healthcare.
A central feature of clinical academic research is that it aims to inform and improve the effectiveness, quality and safety of healthcare.
Clinical academics focus on building a research-led care environment, which includes developing capacity and capability. They challenge existing practice whilst working within, and contributing to, a research rich environment that strives for excellence in healthcare and health outcomes.
The Faculty of Health Sciences, together with several local NHS organisations, has developed an innovative clinical academic pathway for doctoral and post doctoral fellows. Clinical Academic Pathway Flyer