Teaching Fellow in Health in Social Science

Job title:

Teaching Fellow in Health in Social Science

Company:

University of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Category: AcademicJob Description:Grade UE07: £40,497.00 – £48,149.00 per annumCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Health in Social Science / Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social SciencesFull-time: 35 hours per week (1.0 FTE)Fixed-term: Maternity Cover from July 2025 to 28th February 2026We are looking for a Teaching Fellow to cover Maternity Leave to deliver teaching on the MA (Hons) Health in Social Science and to offer dissertation supervision to undergraduate and postgraduate students.The Opportunity:You will contribute to core teaching on the MA (Hons) Health in Social Science Programme and supervise students on the MA and our postgraduate programmes. All teaching is fully on campus.Your skills and attributes for success:You will have a Postgraduate Qualification in an applied social science in health, such as sociology, psychology, nursing, counselling and psychotherapy or other relevant discipline.You will have experience of delivering education in a field relevant to applied social science in health, including lecturing and leading tutorial groups.You will have the ability to design and deliver course materials and assess student performance in both academic assignments and counselling practice development.You will be able to take responsibility for organising your own activities and for the management of allocated resources.You will have the ability to work effectively both independently and as a member of a team.Click to view a copy of the full (opens new browser tab)Please include a Cover Letter and an up-to-date CV with your application.As a valued member of our team you can expect:A competitive salary of £40,497.00 – £48,149.00 per annum.An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.To develop undergraduate teaching skills in a well- supported team recognising your contribution and rewarding success.Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.Championing equality, diversity and inclusionThe University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our (opens new browser tab).On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.Key dates to noteThe closing date for applications is Monday 16th June 2025.Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.Interviews are likely to be held in week commencing 7th July 2025. Please contact Mandy Laing or Head of Subject Area, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences, if you have any queries about the role ( ).About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.About the Team:Health in Social Science, Counselling and Psychotherapy is one of Scotland’s leading providers of postgraduate education, training and research in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Since the 1970s, Counselling and Psychotherapy has been at the forefront of the development of counselling as a professional activity in Scotland and across the globe. We provide a range of professionally accredited education programmes, from the Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma, through to Masters and Professional Doctorate. We also offer research degrees, the MSc by Research and PhD/MPhil. To support our training and research, we operate our own public counselling service, the Hope Park Counselling Centre, one of only three such centres in the UK. Our core orientation is a dialogue between psychodynamic perspectives and the person-centred approach. Our core ethos is to provide a rich relational engagement with clients, students, research participants and colleagues, an engagement which values dialogue, subjectivity, diversity and the complexity of the lives we live in contemporary times.The staff team is made up of senior practitioners in the field, who are also experienced teachers, supervisors and researchers. We are committed to original, empirical and theoretical research that engages critically with the practices of counselling and psychotherapy, and we are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life, as well as research that draws directly on practitioners’ own therapeutic work. Our expertise lies in qualitative, reflexive and critical research approaches. Methodologically we draw upon autoethnographic, arts-informed, narrative and collaborative traditions. Our research portfolio is interdisciplinary, integrating concepts, practices and scholarship from counselling and psychotherapy with a range of disciplines including sociology, human geography, philosophy, theology, religious studies, education and cultural studies.To find out more, visit https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/counselling

Expected salary

£40497 – 48149 per year

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:24:52 GMT

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