Job Description

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Professional Tutor in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Professional Development Mentor

Grade UE07, Hourly Rate: \xc2\xa320.33 - \xc2\xa324.25 plus 18.1% annual leave allowance.

Open-ended, Guaranteed Hours, Minimum of 97 hours per annum

Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences,

School of Health in Social Science,

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

We are looking for Professional Tutors to serve as Professional Development Mentors (PDM) to postgraduate students on the programmes in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

The Opportunity:

You will offer one to one mentoring to students on the Counselling and Psychotherapy Programmes to contribute to their personal and professional development. You will have 7 to 10 mentees with whom you will meet regularly through the two years of their programme. You will be paid for meetings with students and with staff, and in addition for preparation, supervision of your mentoring work, personal scholarship, and writing reports and references for students. Further benefits include holiday pay, sick pay and pension contributions.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• You will be a qualified practitioner in Counselling and Psychotherapy, holding professional accreditation with a relevant Counselling and Psychotherapy professional body (COSCA, BACP, UKCP or equivalent) or eligibility to apply for accreditation
• You will have a professional qualification in Counselling and Psychotherapy, with a specialism in the person-centred approach, in psychodynamic perspectives or in the dialogue between them
• You will have experience in promoting the professional development of trainees in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy
• You will have experience of contributing to assessing students in their practice competence
• You will be able to take responsibility for organising your own activities
• You will have the ability to work effectively both independently and as a member of a team

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The 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.

Please contact Mandy Laing, Head of Subject Area, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences, if you have any queries about the role ( )

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note:

Interview dates: 28/29th September 2023

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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

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