Senior Lecturer

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Part time

Job summary

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Senior Lecturer to deliver flexible teaching across various courses, focusing on the MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. The role involves leadership in course delivery, recruitment, and assessment, requiring substantial teaching experience and BCP accreditation.

Qualifications

• 5 years or more of experience in a clinical setting.
• Track record of writing for publication.

Responsibilities

• Provide teaching, supervision, and tuition to master’s and doctoral students.
• Oversee the digital component of the MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teaching experience

Scholarly activity

Education

BCP analytic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst

Job description

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Main area psychoanalyst, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, analytic psychotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

15 hours per week (Must include a Thursday) Job ref 260-TP-918-A

Site Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum pro rata, inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 02/06/2025 23:59

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

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Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

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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.

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Job overview

The position of Senior Lecturer has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery; in this instance, oversight of the digital component of the MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58), which is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council. The post holder will work flexibly across a range of programmes to provide teaching, supervision and tuition to master’s and where appropriate, doctoral students, as required. The post holder will also be involved in recruitment and assessment processes and will assist flexibly in all aspects of course delivery within the portfolio and other portfolios where relevant.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and main duties.

Working for our organisation

The MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58) is situated within the DET Psychoanalytic Portfolio. Other courses currently within this portfolio are:

• Masters in Psychological Therapy with Children, Young People and Families, (M34) BPC accredited
• Trust Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists (M14) BPC accredited
• Trust Certificate in Interdisciplinary Training in Adult Psychotherapy (M1) BPC accredited
• Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (M80) ACP accredited

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Essential and desirable

• BCP analytic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst
• Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education
• 5 years or more of experience in a clinical setting
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to convey complex ideas in teaching and learning environments
• Track record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity.
• Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.

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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

We communicate to all job applicants via the email address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure you check your email on regular basis and inform us if you would prefer an alternative option or any changes to your details after making your application.

PLEASE NOTE:
* The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

* Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.

*Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.

* Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date

* In submitting an application form, you authorise theTavistockand Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post

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