Associate Lecturer

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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., A rare opportunity has arisen for a motivated and suitably-qualified individual to take up the role of 0.2 WTE Associate Lecturer (8a) on the Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D59F) and the Forensic Stream of the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58) training based at the Portman Clinic and the Tavistock & Portman's Department of Education & Training, London.
The post holder will initially take responsibility for the Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D59F) training, and move to the Forensic Stream in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58) training, as this comes on line. The D59F is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), and the M58 is both accredited by the BPC and validated by Essex University.
It is expected that the post holder will work flexibly to provide teaching, supervision and tuition to Master's level, be involved in recruitment, as well as being involved in assessment processes and with all other aspects of course delivery. (See JD/PS for full details.)
If you would like to enquire about this opportunity, please contact Jessica Yakely on [email protected], or Nicola Godwin on [email protected].
Interviews are planned for Thursday/Friday 26/27 September 2024.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will deliver both to the Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D59F) training, and to the Forensic Stream in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58) training, as this comes on line. The D59F is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), and the M58 is both accredited by the BPC and validated by Essex University.

Working for our organisation
The Trust has a national brief for training in the mental health professions, social care, education and forensic services across the age range. In 2020 the Trust was the first NHS body successful in obtaining registration with the Office for Students (OfS). Its academic awards are validated by university partners, mainly the University of Essex.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender identity, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be on the basis of the individual's ability to meet the requirements for the job. You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust's policies, procedures and obligation in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to in relation
to both staff and services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To contribute to teaching and supervision across courses.
· To deliver asynchronous lectures, face-to-face or online workshops and seminars across the programmes.
· To provide clinical or research supervision to students, as required, and responding to often highly complex issues requiring consideration of a range of possible options and providing expert knowledge and input.
· To review and update the Course Handbook.
· To participate in the development, administration and marking of exams and other assessments.
· To act as personal tutor to students.
· To ensure teaching and supervision integrates an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory framework and takes account of equality, diversity and inclusion.
· To assist in the recruitment and selection of applicants in close liaison with Course Lead, ensuring issues of equity, diversity and inclusion are addressed.
· To assist Course Lead (M58) in processes obtaining student feedback and preparing annual reports for University partners and Professional Regulatory Bodies.
· To liaise closely with Course Lead (M58) and Head of Portfolio about any concerns, some highly complex, raised by students including those that could lead to complaint.
· To attend course team meetings, course committee meetings, progression boards, pre-boards and examination boards as required.
· To participate in assessment and student progression processes and in particular, marking and verifying assessment submissions, and contributing supervisor's reports to progression boards.
· To assist Course Lead (M58) in aspects of curriculum development, where required, including ensuring inclusivity, equity, disadvantage and discrimination are appropriately addressed, taking a lead in the planning of identified course activities.
· To assist in the updating of reading lists, course handbooks and other course materials for uploading to Moodle.
· To develop the use of Moodle and other platforms to ensure available student and staff facing systems are used to support the programme of teaching.
· The post-holder will be required to adhere to all Trust-wide policies and procedures including: Equal Opportunities, Risk Management, Health and Safety, Confidentiality and compliance with the Data Protection Act. The Trust is committed to promoting Equality and Diversity in employment and in the services it provides.
· All staff registered with a professional body are required to comply with the code of conduct of that professional body. The Trust will take appropriate action when codes of conduct are breached.,

• In submitting an application form, you authorise the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post

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