Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology (DPsych)

Location: 13 North Common Road, Ealing, London W5 2QB

Hours per week: Part-time (0.5 FTE)

Working pattern: Online weekday

Our Senior Lecturers (DPsych) provide academic leadership that ensures high-quality teaching, learning and student success. They lead on curriculum development, assessment, quality assurance and module delivery while supporting both colleagues and students.

You'll promote inclusive and innovative teaching, contribute to continuous improvement, and help deliver an excellent learning experience across our doctoral programmes.

You'll be committed to excellence in teaching and learning and continue developing your expertise through pedagogy, research and leadership. You'll participate in mentoring and peer observation, build professional networks within and beyond the Institute, and represent Metanoia through professional bodies, conferences, seminars and scholarly activity.

You'll have:

• A PhD or Professional Doctorate in Psychotherapy, Counselling Psychology or an allied field.
• Professional registration with UKCP, BACP or BPS/HCPC.
• Evidence of engagement in scholarly and research activity, including recent publications.
• Post-qualification experience as a psychotherapist or psychological practitioner.
• Experience supervising doctoral research projects through to completion.
• Experience managing and working collaboratively across a network of services and professionals.

Desirable criteria:

• Post-qualification training and/or evidence of continuing professional development (e.g. Fellowship of Advance HE).
• Experience as a member of a Doctoral programme in Psychotherapy, Counselling Psychology or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing curricula for Doctoral programmes in Psychotherapy or Counselling Psychology.

Please read the full Job Description, linked below, for the complete person specification and essential criteria.

You'll be joining a values-led organisation with a strong commitment to education, inclusion and continuous improvement. This role offers the opportunity to lead high-quality teaching, contribute to academic excellence and make a meaningful difference to the student experience.

Please read through the following document before applying:

• Senior Lecturer Job Description

If you feel you have the necessary experience, skills and align with our values and mission, please complete the Senior Lecturer (DPsych) Application Form to submit your application.

Click on the 'Apply' button above to start your application

The hiring manager will assess your application against the job description and person specification. If you're shortlisted, we'll contact you with details of the next stage of the recruitment process.

11:59pm, Sunday 2 August

Interviews are likely to take place in early August 2026.

As an organisation founded with social justice at its core, we welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We believe that when we work together, we can enable change and make things happen, and we do this by encouraging all our colleagues to be their true selves in the workplace. We learn from each other to create an inclusive organisation.

As a UK-based Institute, all our roles are based within the UK, so you'll need the right to work in the UK and be able to provide proof. Unfortunately, we're unable to offer visa sponsorship.

We know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help prepare your application. While AI can be a powerful enabler, and we're open to you using it, we ask that anything you submit genuinely reflects your own capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you'll uniquely bring to our team.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you're interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.