Job Description
Position Details
School of Psychology
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £46,735 to £55,755 with potential progression once in post to £62,728
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £57,422 to £66,537 with potential progression once in post to £86,760
Grade: 8 or 9
Part Time (15 hours per week)
Permanent
Closing date: 16th June 2025
Background
You will contribute at a senior level on a sustained basis to a whole range of teaching leadership and administration. In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.
You will contribute at a senior level to the full range of placement-related, teaching, research and administration duties on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate and, where appropriate, other courses deliver by the School of Psychology.
The Academic Tutor role on the ClinPsyD weighs more heavily towards the teaching, module organisation, marking and research supervision aspects of the ClinPsyD programme. Additionally, academic tutor post-holders will be involved in appraising trainees and take responsibility for developing and delivering specific aspects of training / teaching within the ClinPsyD to include the delivery of high-quality, research-intensive, inclusive teaching in their areas of specialty.
Teaching is likely to include a substantial contribution to: (a) the development, management, and leadership of module / sub-courses (including programme/module review), (b) delivery of teaching at postgraduate level; (c) marking of academic assignments; (d) enhancement of the student experience or employability; and (e) research supervision. The role will typically also involve developing and advising others, including: (a) providing expert advice to staff and students, and (b) developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks, approaches, and methods.
Teaching focussed role-holders should advance and demonstrate leadership in the practice of teaching in their modules within the school, take a role in leading curriculum development, and play an important role in student academic and pastoral support. You will deliver excellent teaching that inspires students and is informed by discipline-based research and current clinical practice.
Role Summary
The role holder will be based in Edgbaston. The key duties and responsibilities will include but not be limited to: giving lectures and seminars and supervising undergraduate / post-graduate students, course development and innovation, taking an active part in examinations, carrying out innovative research and writing papers on topics relevant to the specialist subject area (this will include journals, books and other material), and obtaining research grant funding.
The successful applicant will have a PhD in a relevant specialist subject area, as well as postdoctoral experience. We are looking for candidates who will actively contribute to our portfolio and community, through pursuit of research that will bring new opportunities, synergies, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The successful candidate will also have a track record in teaching at a higher education institution.
The successful candidate will be expected to be flexible within their role such that the substantive contributions will be to ClinPsyD, but contributions to other CAP and School programmes might also be required.
We welcome applicants with a diverse skill-set and expertise in different clinical, research and psychological approaches that are core to clinical psychology training. We welcome applications from Psychologists working in specialties of Intellectual Disabilities, Physical Health, Community Psychology, and those working from CBT, psychodynamic, and systemic models. Psychologists with secondary accreditation (e.g., BABCP, AFT or relevant psychodynamic certifications) are encouraged to apply as are those with experience in research supervision and activity. The appetite and ability to contribute to undergraduate and masters level teaching and supervision is desirable.
Appointees will hold a Professional Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and hold professional registration with the HCPC as a registered Practitioner Psychologist.
Applicants should demonstrate knowledge and skills that have contributed to outstanding postgraduate teaching and learning, show evidence of the ability to teach in clinical or applied psychology, and have experience of working in clinical settings. Applicants should demonstrate established clinical/academic leadership skills appropriate to their career stage and will be expected to contribute to the management, leadership and enterprise activities of the programme and School.
We will consider appointments at 0.4FTE only. Applicants should specify which role (Assistant or Associate) is being applied for. Applications for Associate Professor will be expected to evidence significant, substantial and sustained contributions (leadership and management) to ClinPsyD / applied programme delivery at a higher education institution.
We will consider appropriately qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist applicants at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor who are interested in the role of Academic Tutor and who will contribute to the development and delivery of the Clinical Psychology Doctorate through teaching, marking, appraisal, and research supervision.
Appointments will be made at either an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level please specify which role you are applying for in the application
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