Senior Lecturer / Lecturer, School of Nursing

Established by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (“TWGHs”) in 2010, Tung Wah College (TWC) is a self-financing degree-granting institution registered under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance (Cap.320). Following the educational ideals of TWGHs and leveraging on its renowned strengths and expertise, TWC aims to provide high quality tertiary education to nurture competent, socially responsible and caring professionals for the benefits of society.

With the staunch support of TWGHs, TWC has been developing rapidly and built up a niche in healthcare education. It is the first self-financing tertiary institution offering professionally accredited degrees to train allied health professionals such as medical laboratory technologists, occupational therapists and radiation therapists. Besides, the College is also the first institution registered under Cap. 320 offering early childhood education degree and higher diploma programmes to train qualified kindergarten teachers and child care professionals.

Currently, TWC has 4 schools (namely School of Arts and Humanities, School of Management, School of Medical and Health Sciences, and School of Nursing) running a total of 22 degree, sub-degree, diploma, certificate and advanced certificate programmes in several disciplines. It has a student population of over 3,900 in 2023/2024. Since establishment, TWC has nurtured over 5,200 graduates.

Being a young and vibrant institution, TWC aspires to become a leading private university in the long term. It is planning to launch a number of new programmes, strengthen teaching and learning facilities and quality, and enhance research capability etc. in coming years. To cope with its continuous development, we are now inviting highly qualified candidates to fill the following post:

Responsibilities


The appointee will be required but not limited to:

• perform teaching duties;
• contribute to the implementation of the College and School’s strategic initiatives and development;
• participate / assist in managing the academic affairs including programme development, validation exercises and course coordination;
• take up responsibilities in academic and departmental administration; participate in promoting good teaching and collaborative research;
• liaise with external bodies for job placements and professional development;
• engage in research and have publication output, in accordance to the workload requirements of the College, perform scholarly activities;
• increase the publication output and raise the level of consultancies in respective discipline(s);
• perform academic activities including academic advising, examination and assessment, student recruitment, committee works, whole person development activities of students; and
• undertake professional service to external professional body / organization and provide public services to the community.

Requirements

The appointee should have:

• a Master’s degree (preferably a doctoral degree) in relevant discipline (obstetric nursing background is preferred) with sufficient years of relevant experience in teaching in the tertiary education sector; and
• a valid Registered Nurse practicing certificate (General and/or Mental Health) issued by the Nursing Council of Hong Kong.

Salary will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.