Senior Lecturer - MA Counselling & Psychotherapy

Our School of Social Sciences is seeking to appoint a permanent Counselling and Psychotherapy Senior Lecturer who will also assume Programme Leader role for MA Counselling and Psychotherapy programme (accredited by BACP). 

The successful applicants will be a Counsellor or Psychotherapist with recent practice experience, registered/accredited with appropriate professional statutory or regulatory body, and will be expected to contribute to teaching provision, with a commitment to innovative and high-quality teaching, alongside their programme leadership duties.

The post is based with the Counselling and Psychotherapy team within the interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences within a suite of undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programmes accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and other professional bodies (HCPC). We are focussed on the delivery of high-quality teaching with a strong emphasis on the application of academic understanding to real-world contexts with impact.

About you

The successful applicants will join a team who contribute to the Certificate in Counselling Skills and the MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes. These programmes adopt an Integrative Relational Approach (integrating Person-Centred, Psychodynamic and Gestalt modalities) which is consistent with working in ways that empower clients and demonstrate the high standards of anti-discriminatory practice appropriate to the pluralistic nature of society today.

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer with practice experience, who will lead the MA Counselling and Psychotherapy programme, provide clinical and research supervision and contribute to teaching and learning, which provide highly regarded professional training, which have impact in the immediate locality and beyond.

Where is the role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed – £300m has been invested in new state-of-the-art learning spaces and accommodation while we continue to develop incredible new facilities to enhance our offer even further.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the SouthWest with 32,000 students, 250,000 alumni and 4,000 staff from across the globe. We are both globally connected and regionally embedded, with a strong network of employer and partner connections.

We are an ambitious and values led university. We're focused on solving future global challenges through outstanding learning, world-leading research and a culture of enterprise and we are looking for people who share our core values to help us achieve those aims. 

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

a generous holiday allowance of 35 days pro rata

up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year

excellent defined benefit pension schemes

access to employee assistance programme

1st month free to our Centre for Sport facilities for all new starters

family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives

onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus.

Retail savings via the Wider Wallet scheme

option to participate in the cycle to work scheme.

Further information

This is a permanent, part time position working 80% of a full-time contract (0.8FTE) 

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Zoe Thomas, Associate Head of Department (Psychology) via email: zoe2.thomas@uwe.ac.uk

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