Lecturer in Psychology – Newcastle

You will:

• Deliver excellent teaching, learning opportunities and dissertation supervision.
• Lead and develop modules, ensuring high-quality learning materials and curriculum development.
• Design excellent digital teaching material ensuring that content and methods of delivery meet defined learning objectives.
• Undertake assessment marking, design authentic assessments, and provide high-quality feedback.
• Support student success as a named Personal Academic Coach (PAC) to a defined caseload of students, building proactive relationships and providing personalised academic coaching that promotes engagement, progression, achievement and successful completion.
• Manage your own teaching and student success activities and reflect on practice and development of skills, with support/guidance as needed.
• Undertake administrative activities to support teaching and learning activities.
• Participation in or leadership of projects or activities relevant to the aims of the School at the discretion of the Head of Department / Head of School (for example, reviewing ethics applications).

About you:

• An MSc or equivalent qualification in Psychology, with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) as recognised by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
• Excellent data analysis and evaluation skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience in teaching, learning, assessment, dissertation supervision, and pastoral care practices in Higher Education.
• A track record of successfully contributing to programme teams and being an inspiring and creative lecturer.
• AdvanceHE Recognition - FHEA or willing to achieve within 12-18 months.
• We encourage applications from those with experience in teaching across the required BPS curriculum and with research specialisms in common psychology topics, such as forensic, cyberpsychology, counselling, clinical, and so on.