Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Waverley Abbey College, Waverley Abbey House, Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8EP

Salary: £36,772 FTE

Hours: 3.5 days/week [0.7]

Due to 100% growth in our higher education intake in September 2024, we’re in an exciting phase of growth so are delighted to be recruiting for a Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy to join Waverley Abbey College supporting the next generation of Christian Counsellors. 

The Job Purpose: 

To be a key member of a team of academic and administrative colleagues facilitating the highest quality learning and teaching within Waverley Abbey College. To support students through teaching, administration and academic advice. To work across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as part of the academic team. To enhance and develop learning and teaching, academic processes and student outcomes. This may include teaching during weekdays, weekends and evenings. 

Principle Accountabilities: 

Teaching and Learning - to contribute to and enhance teaching and learning on the training programme.

Academic Support - to advise and guide students to support their progression and outcomes

Management and Administration

Be an active representative of Waverley Abbey College on key professional bodies/ committees; external events; conferences and seminars; production of sector or journal articles/reviews; through the operation of external or internal workshops or seminars.

This role holds a Genuine Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 to be a practising Christian who assents to Waverley Abbey’s Statement of Faith.

We reserve the right to close applications early.

Please note, an appointment will be subject to: 

• Evidence of Right to Work in the UK
• Satisfactory references
• A satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure (where applicable)
• Meeting Occupational Requirement criteria
• Satisfactory completion of a probationary period

Sound interesting? Apply now!

We are at a critical moment in world history; a moment of profound spiritual, economic and social crisis in the UK and across the world – with opportunity for a radical, spiritual renewal. In the last half of 2022, CWR and 24-7 Prayer came together to create a new vision at Waverley Abbey for such a time of this.

The 112-acre Waverley Abbey Estate, located about an hour from London, Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, has been a place of prayer since 688 AD and was the site of England’s first Cistercian Abbey.

With its remarkable history of thirteen centuries of prayer, its strategic location on the Prime Meridian, and its 30,000 sq. ft of accommodation, the partnership of CWR and 24-7 Prayer at Waverley Abbey represents a unique opportunity to establish a mission centre and a hub for spiritual and social transformation in the UK and globally.

We are creating a new Abbey for a new generation. One that will champion encounter with God, through education, engagement and enterprise — for spiritual and cultural renewal for this generation and generations to come.

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