Professor in Paediatric Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy in Neurological Disorders

**Discipline**:Paediatric Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy in Neurological Disorders**:

- **100% Assistant professor tenure track**:

- **Reference number**:202411/GE/ZAP/004**

**ABOUT GHENT UNIVERSITY**

Ghent University is one of the most important education and research institutions in the Low Countries. On a daily basis, over 15,000 staff members and 50,000 students implement its motto "Dare to Think". Ghent University's mission statement is characterised by qualitative education, internationally renowned research and a pluralistic social responsibility.

**ASSIGNMENT**

This position is situated in the department of Rehabilitation Sciences of the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The appointment includes a teaching, research and service assignment.

**Academic education**
You lecture various course units in the discipline of Paediatric Rehabilitation, preferably in the rehabilitation of children with neurodevelopmental conditions, (including congenital and acquired neurological disorders).
You participate in the 3-year academic bachelor and the 2-year academic master's programme within Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy and possibly in the interuniversity paediatric postgraduate programmes aimed at interdisciplinary care and rehabilitation professionals.

**Academic research**

**Academic services**
You take part in the internal and external service provision of the department of Rehabilitation Sciences, amongst others by translating the results of your research to the broader public.

**PROFILE**

**Experience**
- You have already conducted eminent academic research in the given discipline, which is clearly reflected in publications in high-quality academic journals and peer-reviewed books;
- You are capable of initiating, supervising and acquiring the necessary funding for academic research;
- You are didactically skilled to teach university students to develop academic competences;
- You have experience with, or willingness to carry out, socially relevant research in collaboration with relevant national and international stakeholders in the field (educational institutions, specialised centres, expert groups, patient/family foundations, etc.);
- You have an (inter)national research network within the described research domain;
- You have experience with, or willingness to include, the following topics in your teaching and research: interdisciplinarity, context-oriented, quality of life, coaching/motivation;
- Recommended are:

- International mobility, among other things thanks to research stays at institutions external to the one where you acquired your highest academic degree;
- Positively evaluated experience in provided or organised academic lecturing;
- Professionalisation of education;
- Leadership experience in research;
- Clinical experience with patients in mentioned domain.
- You must master the language of instruction in which you will teach a course at CEFR- level C1.You can demonstrate this by means of a language certificate or a diploma obtained from an institution in which that language is the language of instruction. In addition, Article II.270, -1 of the Codex of Higher Education requires that: (i) you must master the Dutch language at least at CEFR-level A2 within two years after the start of the appointment. (ii) you must be able to master the Dutch language at least at CEFR-level of B2 within five years after the start of the appointment. More info: Language requirements at Ghent University for professorial staff — Ghent University (ugent.be)

**Skills / Attitude**
- You are quality-oriented;
- You take initiative;
- You have good didactic skills;
- You are a team player and contribute to the tasks within the department and the cooperation with both interdisciplinary and external partners;
- You are excited by the prospect of interdisciplinary collaboration and internationalisation;
- You have an innovative attitude and are eager to engage new collaborations with external (research) partners;
- You have good organisational, interpersonal and communication skills;
- You develop leadership in your area of expertise;

**Admission requirements**
- You hold a thesis-based doctorate or a diploma or certificate that is recognised as equivalent (article V.20 Codex Higher Education) in the field of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, with a specialization in paediatrics.

Upon evaluation of a foreign (non-EU) diploma, a certificate of equivalence may still have to be requested at NARIC. If this is the case, we advise you to initiate this recognition procedure as soon as possible. You are required to have the recognition no later than on the date of your appointment.
- You have at least two years of postdoctoral experience on 1 September 2025. This term of two years is determined by the date written on the above-mentioned required diploma.
- You are a licensed physiotherapist.

**APPOINTMENT INFORMATION**
- We offer you a temporary appointment in a tenure track system