Job summary
JOB TITLE: Associate Lecturer for (M7/M9) Working with children, young people & families: a psychoanalytic observational approach
GRADE: 8A
HOURS: 2 sessions/7.5 hours per week (potentially increasing to 3 sessions subject to student recruitment)
DURATION: Fixed term contract until July 31 2023
This post is located within the Psychoanalytic Applied Portfolio in the Division of Education and Training. The role includes teaching, tutoring, marking, participation in student recruitment and academic assessment as well as involvement in course review and development.
This is an ACP qualified child psychotherapy role and is primarily linked to the M7 courses: MA Working with children, young people & families: a psychoanalytic observational approach. M7 is a thriving post-graduate psychoanalytic applied course, extending students' understanding of early development and developing their application of psychoanalytically informed observational skills to their interactions at work. The Tavistock course offers different delivery models (in-person and blended delivery) and is also delivered in partnership with national and Italian centres. This Associate Lecturer post is Tavistock Centre based.
The postholder must be available on Wednesdays. Attending staff meetings, representing the course at open days and evenings and other events will involve some work on other days and evening and weekend work.
Main duties of the job
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details about the roles & requirements of the vacancy .
About us
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults. With 500 staff across a number of sites, we are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health. For more information, please access the following link: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details about the roles & requirements of the vacancy .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details about the roles & requirements of the vacancy .
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UK recognised qualification in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education
- Post qualification experience as required by the relevant professional and regulatory body
Desirable
- Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
Skills
Essential
- Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UK recognised qualification in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education
- Post qualification experience as required by the relevant professional and regulatory body
Desirable
- Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
Skills
Essential
- Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
