Associate Lecturer

Hours: 30 hours per week

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an Associate Lecturer to join the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s renowned education provision in applied research and practice of systems-psychodynamic approaches to organisational leadership and consultancy. Specifically working on two of our flagship part-time programmes with national and international reputations: the Masters in Consulting and leading in organisations and the Professional Doctorate in Consultation and the organisation, both validated by University of Essex. 

The post holder(s) will be involved in module leadership, teaching, practice and research supervision, personal tutoring and all aspects of course delivery and development within the portfolio. Please see the Job Description & Person Specifications.

Applications are welcome for the role as a single post or as a split post. As a single post, the applicant will have the knowledge and experience required to work flexibly across both the masters and doctoral level programmes. As a split post, they will have the knowledge and experience suitable to one or other of the programmes.

• Masters in Consulting and leading in organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches (D10/ED10) - see course details.
• Professional Doctorate in Advance practice and research: consultation and the organisation (D10D) – see course details.

Main duties of the job

• Teaching, research/practice supervision, and assessment
• Course  development
• Research and evaluation
• Continuing professional development 
• General

Working for your organisation

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. In 2020, the Trust was the first NHS body successful in obtaining registration with the Office for Students (OfS). Its academic awards are validated by university partners, mainly the University of Essex.

With specialist 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.

The Trust develops and delivers training initiatives that meet the needs of a modern health, social care and education sector and is responsive to policy and initiatives from government and other relevant agencies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description & Personal Specifications document for details. Provisional interview date Tuesday 16th April 2024. 

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Gwen Hanrahan

Job title: Course Lead

Email address: ghanrahan@tavi-port.nhs.uk 

Additional contact information:

Nick Waggett, Course Lead D10D/C:  nwaggett@tavi-port.nhs.uk 

Gwen Hanrahan, Course Lead D10/ED10:  ghanrahan@tavi-port.nhs.uk 

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