Assistant or Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University of Birmingham Full time

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £56,021 to £64,914 with potential progression once in post to £84,644

Hours: Part Time (30 hours per week)

We are looking for a creative, thoughtful, and collaborative colleague who would like to develop their academic and clinical career with us, and who will welcome the opportunity to be part of our Centre for Applied Psychology (CAP). 

We will consider appropriately qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist applicants at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor who are interested in the role of Academic Tutor and who will contribute to the development and delivery of the Clinical Psychology Doctorate through teaching, marking, appraisal, and research supervision. 

The Assistant or Associate Professor role holds expectations for teaching, module organisation, marking, appraisal tutoring, and research supervision on the ClinPsyD programme, including developing and delivering specific aspects of training / teaching to include the delivery of high-quality, research-intensive, inclusive teaching in their area(s) of specialty. The successful candidate will be expected to be flexible within their role such that the substantive contributions will be to ClinPsyD, but contributions to other CAP and School programmes might also be required.

We welcome applicants with a diverse skill-set and expertise in different clinical, research and psychological approaches that are core to clinical psychology training. We welcome applications from Psychologists working in specialties of Intellectual Disabilities, Physical Health, Community Psychology, and those working from CBT, psychodynamic, and systemic models. Psychologists with secondary accreditation (e.g., BABCP, AFT or relevant psychodynamic certifications) are encouraged to apply as are those with experience in research supervision and activity. The appetite and ability to contribute to undergraduate and masters level teaching and supervision is desirable.

Appointees will hold a Professional Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and hold professional registration with the HCPC as a registered Practitioner Psychologist. 

Applicants should demonstrate knowledge and skills that have contributed to outstanding postgraduate teaching and learning, show evidence of the ability to teach in clinical or applied psychology, and have experience of working in clinical settings. Applicants should demonstrate established clinical/academic leadership skills appropriate to their career stage and will be expected to contribute to the management, leadership and enterprise activities of the programme and School. 

We will consider appointments up to 0.8FTE in the first instance. Applicants should specify which role (Assistant or Associate) is being applied for. Applications for Associate Professor will be expected to evidence significant, substantial and sustained contributions to ClinPsyD / applied programme delivery at a higher education institution. 

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Grade 8   

Grade 9 

Informal enquiries to Dr Gary Law, email: g.u.law@bham.ac.uk (Programme Director for Doctorate in Clinical Psychology) or Professor Suzanne Higgs, email: s.higgs.1@bham.ac.uk (Head of School of Psychology). 

To download the full job description and details of this position and submit an electronic application online please click on the 'Apply' button above.

Valuing excellence, sustaining investment
We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working

Closes: 08/09/2024

£56,021 to £64,914. Grade 9



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