Teaching Fellow with Person Centred Specialism in Counselling and Psychotherapy

@University of Edinburgh posted 3 days ago

Job Description

Job Info

  • Job Identification12548
  • Locations Doorway 6, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, GB(100% On-campus)
  • OrganizationSchool of Health in Social Science, School of Health in Social Science, School of Health in Social Science, Edinburgh University Group
  • DepartmentCounselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences
  • Apply Before06/12/2025, 04:29 AM
  • Health and Safety RequirementsNo key hazards identified for this post
  • Criminal Record CheckNo criminal record check required
  • Contract TypeOpen Ended
  • Job SchedulePart time
  • GradeUE07
  • Number of Openings1
  • Job FunctionTeacher

Job Description

Grade UE07: £40,497.00 – £48,149.00 per annum pro-rata as part-time 

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Health in Social Science / Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences

Part-time: 21 hours per week (0.6 FTE)

Open-ended (permanent)

 

We are looking for a Teaching Fellow with a specialism in the Person-Centred Approach to deliver teaching and practice learning support for the professional programmes in Counselling and Psychotherapy. This post will commence in August 2025.

 

The Opportunity:

You will contribute to core teaching on the postgraduate Counselling and Psychotherapy Programmes, supervise dissertations and support practice placements. All teaching is fully on campus.

 

Your skills and attributes for success: 

You will be a qualified practitioner in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, holding professional accreditation with a relevant Counselling and Psychotherapy professional body (COSCA, BACP, UKCP or equivalent) or eligibility to apply for accreditation.

You will have a postgraduate qualification in Counselling and Psychotherapy, at Masters or Doctorate level and have experience in professional education in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

You will have the ability to design and deliver course materials and assess student performance in both academic assignments and counselling practice development.

You will have experience of supporting students in practice skills development.

You will be able to take responsibility for organising your own activities and for the management of allocated resources.

You will have the ability to work effectively both independently and as a member of a team.

 

 

Click to view a copy of the full job description (opens new browser tab).

 

Please submit a cover letter and an up-to-date CV with your application.

 

As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

 

A competitive salary of £40,497.00 – £48,149.00 per annum pro-rata.

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.

To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.

To develop professional programme teaching skills in a well- supported team recognising your contribution and rewarding success.

Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

 

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

 

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 11th June 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

 

Interviews are likely to be held in week commencing 30th June 2025.  Please contact Mandy Laing or Head of Subject Area, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences, if you have any queries about the role (Mandy.Laing@ed.ac.uk).

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

Health in Social Science, Counselling and Psychotherapy is one of Scotland’s leading providers of postgraduate education, training and research in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Since the 1970s, Counselling and Psychotherapy has been at the forefront of the development of counselling as a professional activity in Scotland and across the globe. We provide a range of professionally accredited education programmes, from the Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma, through to Masters and Professional Doctorate.   We also offer research degrees, the MSc by Research and PhD/MPhil.  To support our training and research, we operate our own public counselling service, the Hope Park Counselling Centre, one of only three such centres in the UK. Our core orientation is a dialogue between psychodynamic perspectives and the person-centred approach. Our core ethos is to provide a rich relational engagement with clients, students, research participants and colleagues, an engagement which values dialogue, subjectivity, diversity and the complexity of the lives we live in contemporary times.
The staff team is made up of senior practitioners in the field, who are also experienced teachers, supervisors and researchers.  We are committed to original, empirical and theoretical research that engages critically with the practices of counselling and psychotherapy, and we are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life, as well as research that draws directly on practitioners’ own therapeutic work. Our expertise lies in qualitative, reflexive and critical research approaches. Methodologically we draw upon autoethnographic, arts-informed, narrative and collaborative traditions. Our research portfolio is interdisciplinary, integrating concepts, practices and scholarship from counselling and psychotherapy with a range of disciplines including sociology, human geography, philosophy, theology, religious studies, education and cultural studies.
To find out more, visit https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/counselling

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