M7 Associate Lecturer Child &Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Job summary

M7 Perinatal, Child, Adolescent and Family Work: A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach

We are recruiting to a permanent band 8A Associate Lecturer role, 4 sessions/15 hours. Working days must include Wednesdays plus one other day. The role will bring opportunities to become involved in and lead on specific teaching, learning, recruitment and course development activities. These are exciting and challenging times for the course as we continue to grow in both the scope of our pedagogy, our geographical reach and modes of delivery.

Main duties of the job

We wish to recruit colleagues who are qualified child psychotherapists with post-graduate teaching experience. An interest in increasing access and diversity through recruitment processes will be advantageous to this role. As a course team we are committed to extending our work to raise our own awareness and take action to address equality, diversity and identity issues in our curriculum content and course delivery.

Main duties of the post

• Leading on recruitment across the London M7 courses including taking responsibility for setting up recruitment events.
• Take a leading role in interviewing M7 course applicants and developing interviewing/recruitment processes
• Attend the weekly M7 Team Meeting on Wednesdays at the Tavistock
• Providing pastoral support to students including liaising with the student and relevant staff to address issues sensitively.
• Take up the Module Lead role for one module.
• Teach three seminars each week across the academic year.
• Marking written submissions across different modules
• Contribute to CPD sessions and staff meetings for Visiting Lecturers (once a term on the Monday evening following the end of term) and where appropriate, meetings with National and International Course Leads.
• Contribute to the setting up and running of the annual two day cross-centre Experiential Event
• Attend and co-facilitate twice yearly Course Committee Meetings

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.

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

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.