Senior Lecturer (Clinical Lead - Programme Manager, PPN)

This new part-time (0.6 FTE) post is immediately available until 31 December 2025 in Cedar (Clinical Education Development) within Psychology.

This role could be done as a secondment.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

The role
Within Cedar, you will have responsibility for managing and monitoring the Psychological Professions Network for the South West (PPN-SW) programme and the related implementation interface with services and key partners. You will have responsibility for the associated operational administration, communication strategies, and quality management including reporting on targets to NHSE and PPN-England (PPN-E) and within the Department and Faculty as appropriate. You will work with the PPN-SW co-chairs, PPN-SW Administrator and Graduate Research Assistant as well as the PPN-SW steering committee and Director of Cedar to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the PPN-SW network in accordance with relevant NHS policy and the Faculty’s education strategy and the External Affairs strategy, supporting the effective transfer of clinical-educational collaborative provision into operational delivery. You will also contribute directly to the overall management of the PPN-SW network and, where appropriate, across Cedar in the development and implementation of innovative and effective clinical engagement and participation practices across Cedar and within the psychological professions community in the SW region.

Specific Purpose of the job:

• Oversee management of KPIs outlined for the PPN-SW Project, including oversight of the communication strategy for the PPN-SW taking account of PPN-E objectives and priorities.
• Act as the main point of liaison between CEDAR, the PPN-SW co-chairs, the PPN-SW steering group, PPN-E, other Arms-Length Bodies (ALBs) and wider stakeholders from within the psychological professions community in the SW region, ensuring key objectives are implemented and good governance of the project ensues.
• Responsible for ensuring good governance of the PPN-SW project and, in liaison with local Service Heads, supervisors, commissioners (HEE-SW) develop and maintain reporting systems for ensuring the quality of the PPN-SW project.
• Ensuring effective links between local, regional and national agendas in line with PPN-E and CEDAR’S external affairs strategy.
• Problem solving training and service-related implementation of key PPN-SW KPIs at a local, regional and national level.
• Develop the clinical aspects of the programme and strengthening the work of the PPN and CEDAR.

Please ensure you read our Job Description and Person Specification (available on the university's website) for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Informal Enquiries
Before submitting an application you may wish to discuss the post further by contacting Professor Catherine Gallop, Director of CEDAR Postgraduate Taught Programmes – c.a.gallop@exeter.ac.uk or Dr Phil Self, Head of Psychology and Psychological Professions, Devon Partnership Trust, 07976961162 / philip.self@nhs.net.

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