School of Health in Social Science / Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences
Full-time: 35 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
Fixed-term: Maternity Cover from July 2025 to 28
th
February 2026
We 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.
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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.
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
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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
Monday 16
th
June 2025.
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Interviews are likely to be held in week commencing
7
th
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 ( Mandy.Laing@ed.ac.uk ).
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