Associate Lecturer, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

M80 Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (leading to qualification with the Association of Child Psychotherapists and a Professional Doctorate or Professional Masters with University of Essex).

Band 8A Associate Lecturer role, 8 sessions/30 hours (or two 4 sessions/15 hours roles) working days must include Mondays and Wednesday.

We are recruiting to one 8 sessions or two 4 sessions new roles in the core M80 course team. Both roles will bring opportunities to become involved in and lead on specific teaching, learning, assessment, administrative and course development activities.

These are exciting and challenging times for the course, as we prepare for our new NHS training commission. We are working to increase the number of training placements available each year and to develop the curriculum to match the latest guidance – from the ACP and in line with the NHS long-term plan for mental health services. These developments include creating an expert-by-experience group to contribute to many aspects of the programme and building on current teaching and learning in relation to key clinical areas, including peri-natal and older adolescents.

Main duties of the job

We wish to recruit colleagues who have completed Doctoral level studies and will be interested in our ongoing work to support the integration of clinical and research teaching and learning, for our trainees. At least one of the roles will specifically include work with the M80 Research Leads supporting assessment, teaching and supervision of Doctoral research projects.

An interest in being part of developing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training to ensure that issues to do with equality, diversity and inclusion are an integrated part of the programme will be essential. Involvement with the process of adaptation that ensures that Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy continues to be centrally relevant in the modern NHS and the Long-term Plan will also be key.

As a course team we are committed to extending our work to raise our own awareness and take action to address equality, diversity and identity issues in our course content and in the course delivery.

About us

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.

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

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.