Lecturer in Sport Psychology (Maternity Cover)

The HE Sport Department are actively recruiting for a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology. This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a progressive, learner focused department that places innovative teaching, learning and assessment at the forefront of their professional practice.

For this role, you will have experience of teaching undergraduate students within the area of both Sport and Exercise psychology, with an ability to contribute towards the supervision of undergraduate dissertations in the field. Experience and knowledge of qualitative and/or quantitative research methods would also be an advantage.

The post is a fixed term 12 month maternity cover.

The Applicant

You will have a commitment to student centered learning with teaching and curriculum design, underpinned by scholarly activity, research and/or experience as an applied Sport/Exercise Psychology practitioner.

To be successful you will have a Masters and a good honours degree that are relevant to the post along with teaching experience.

The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

A competitive pension scheme
Cycle-to-work scheme
On-site parking
One campus facility
Access to healthcare scheme
Subsided nursery fees
Up to 44 days annual leave per year
Additional annual leave available
Generous Maternity/Paternity pay
Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
Well-being hours
Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities
We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and agile working where the business allows. We provide staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.