Assistant Professor (Teaching Focused) x3 (103121-0624)

For informal enquiries, please contact Phil Goss at p.goss@warwick.ac.uk.

Counselling & Psychotherapy at Warwick is a successful, and growing curriculum area with a reputation for quality; delivered by a nationally recognised team. 

We are seeking to appoint up to 3 new members of staff to join our dynamic, dedicated, and enthusiastic Counselling & Psychotherapy team to teach across a range of Counselling and Psychotherapy courses. You will join a dynamic and growing team delivering a suite of programmes from undergraduate to post graduate studies as well as other continuing professional development courses and short courses. 

The programmes are moving to a more Integrative therapeutic base to reflect an evolving field and meet the needs of the diverse and sometimes complex needs of clients. Successful applicants will need to be able therefore to deliver teaching and learning on Integrative counselling and psychotherapeutic accredited programmes, while demonstrating capacity to teach on our remaining person-centred programmes. We are particularly looking for a colleague who will bring expertise to contribute to our MSc Psychotherapy and Counselling programme.

We are particularly looking for a colleague who will bring expertise to contribute to our MSc Psychotherapy and Counselling programme. 

You will also be responsible for aspects of course administration, student placement and curriculum development.

To be successful you will have excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills, relevant teaching experience, and the ability to facilitate counselling and psychotherapy training groups. You will be an experienced psychotherapist or counsellor. You will need registration with UKCP.

Please indicate on your application/personal statement if you are seeking work on specific days of the week and if you are able to vary these days as required in future years where this may be needed.

Please also specify the proportion of a fractional contract you would be interested in: 

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

For more than 30 years the Centre for Lifelong Learning has been a centre of expertise in the education of lifelong learners in different contexts, with a focus on enabling adult learners to achieve their personal and professional goals by accessing a Warwick education, irrespective of background. The Centre offers a range of courses to help adult learners progress in their chosen career.

Counselling & Psychotherapy in CLL and at Warwick is a successful, and growing curriculum area with a reputation for quality; delivered by a nationally recognised team.

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**. 

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CLOSING DATE:  Sunday 14th July 2024 at 11.55pm

To apply, please click ‘Apply’ below and submit an application form by the closing date. Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 11.30pm).

Please attach a CV and cover letter.

Your CV should include your most recent employment experience, any other relevant experience, and education history.

Your cover letter must detail how you meet each of the essential criteria found in the Job Description document below (desirable criteria too, where possible).

Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and giving examples below, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.

To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications via our official website, warwick-careers.tal.net.

Interview Date: TBC

Start Date: TBC

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities. 

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here. 

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

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