Job Description

Grade UE07: 40,497.00 - 48,149.00 per annum pro-rata

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

/

School of Health in Social Science / Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences

Part-time: 21 hours per week (0.6 FTE)

Fixed-term: Maternity Cover from July 2025 to 28

th

February 2026

We are looking for a Teaching Fellow to cover Maternity Leave from July 2025 until 28 th February 2026, with a specialism in the Person-Centred Approach to deliver teaching and practice learning support for the professional programmes in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

The Opportunity:

You will contribute to core teaching on the postgraduate Counselling and Psychotherapy Programmes, supervise dissertations and support practice placements. All teaching is fully on campus.

Your skills and attributes for success:

You will be a qualified practitioner in Person-Centred 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 postgraduate qualification in Counselling and Psychotherapy, at Masters or Doctorate level and have experience in professional education in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy.


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 have experience of supporting students in practice skills 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.

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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 pro-rata.


An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.


To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community


To develop professional programme 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

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Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

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.



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

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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 note

The closing date for applications is

Friday 13

th

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

30

th

June 2025

. Please contact Mandy Laing or Head of Subject Area,

Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences

, if you have any queries about the role ( Mandy.Laing@ed.ac.uk ).