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Ansök senast: 2024-06-24

Associate Professor of Mental Health/ Clinical Psychology

Publicerad 2024-04-25

Job summary

The School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth are recruiting to the position of Associate Professor of Mental Health/Clinical Psychology.

The Plymouth Doctoral Clinical Psychology programme has been providing high-quality clinical psychology training in the South West for the past 40 years and was the first programme to adopt a doctoral training model. The programme is committed to values based practice; working with compassion, courage, and creativity, in partnership with service users and communities to promote social inclusion, diversity, equality and health for all. The programme has longstanding strengths in systemic approaches and is currently working towards BABCP accreditation in CBT, we also have a flourishing programme of community psychology placements.

The CAP Programme is a BPS accredited, Apprenticeship Degree delivered in line with the Institute for Apprenticeships guidance. Plymouth also has a Good OFSTED rating for its apprenticeship provision. We privilege equality, diversity and inclusion, cocreation, championing applied psychology and we focus on community, critical, systemic, relational and trauma-informed approaches. We have grown to be a successful and thriving programme with training specialist in adult community, acute and urgent care, Older Peoples, Learning Disability and Child and Young Peoples services. The CAPs programme is predominantly delivered online, offering increased potential for hybrid working.

Main duties of the job

This post offers an exciting opportunity to be involved in shaping development of our teaching and research in Mental Health, including Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Counselling, Health Psychology, or a related interdisciplinary area.

You will contribute to teaching across the range of our teaching programmes, but with particular focus on postgraduate teaching in Clinical and Mental Health Psychology. Across the School we have a broad and expanding provision of postgraduate clinical training, including our Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Associate Psychology apprenticeships, and our MSc Clinical Psychology programme.

About us

The School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth is one of the largest in the UK with over 70 academics and 1,000 students studying a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes across the breadth of the discipline. You will benefit from a positive and collegiate working environment that values and promotes excellence in all academic activities.

The School fosters collaborative research and supports the development of real-world impact. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework assessment 100% of our research environment and research impact was rated as either world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*), along with 73% of our research outputs.

To support the research aims of our academics the School houses an excellent suite of research laboratories, supported by a dedicated team of Technicians. Our facilities include numerous laboratories supporting behavioural, health, clinical, neuroscience, and developmental research with technologies such as VR, eyetracking, EEG, and TMS. These are augmented with a dedicated Babylab, Health Lab and a new state-of-the-art Brain Research and Imaging Centre. All these resources will be available to support the development of your research career.

The School of Psychology also benefits from being within a large Faculty of Health which also provides medical, dental, general, and mental health nursing, social work, and seven different allied health professions training.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Job Description for the role of Associate Professor of Mental Health/Clinical Psychology please see attached document under the Supporting Links section.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • * Successful track record of delivering high quality research outputs at the appropriate quality level for the discipline.
  • * Successful track record of research-led teaching which significantly enhanced the learning experience.
  • Desirable

  • * Successful or growing national or international leadership of teaching and learning initiatives.
  • * Successful track record of high quality teaching and learning support (including personal tutoring).
  • * Strong track record of enhancing the learning experience through flexible delivery, and pedagogic innovation including the use of digital media, as appropriate to the diverse student needs.
  • * Contributed to quality assurance activities (such as approval, periodic review, student complaints) outside own subject area.
  • * Has developed, or has clear plans to develop, impact within area of research.
  • * Secured research funding at a level appropriate to the field of research on a sustained basis.
  • * Sustained track record of excellent research supervision and/or research mentorship.
  • Qualifications

    Essential

  • * PhD or equivalent international qualification or commensurate level of recognition/international profile in a relevant discipline.
  • * In depth knowledge of a specific discipline sufficient to enable innovation and new understanding in the field.
  • * Excellent working knowledge of institutional management systems and relevant legislation.
  • * Recognised HE teaching qualification or appropriate HEA fellowship the ability to gain this within a defined timescale, usually within 2 years from the date of appointment.
  • * Sufficient knowledge of clinical psychology, or a related area such as CBT, Counselling, Health Psychology or similar to allow teaching of these areas at Masters level.
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