Department
The University of Essex provides excellence in education and research in health, wellbeing and care, for the benefit of individuals and communities. It leads impactful research and innovation in public health and wellbeing, in collaboration with health sector partners, to meet the needs of our region and the national health priorities. The University is at the forefront of preparing people to solve real-life issues in health and society, offering courses and research that both commissioners and employers believe in. People are at the heart of all we do. We work in partnership with people from all walks of life, who offer us their expertise and experience, making us a team of people who truly understand what is needed from health and social care professionals – now and in the future. By putting people at the heart of these initiatives, the University of Essex aims to create an environment that fosters empathy, collaboration, and a focus on improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Duties of the Role
We are seeking to recruit an Association of Family Therapy accredited family therapist to lead on the delivery of our systemic family therapy foundation and intermediate level training. The role holder would be responsible for curriculum development of the family therapy components of the doctoral program, as well as direct teaching delivery, assessment and trainee engagement.
The role will require management, administration and organisation alongside support of students on our existing programme and generally enhancing our systemic practice teaching and developing an intermediate level training in systemic practice to be accredited by AFT, within the Clinical Psychology programme.
Skills and qualifications required
The successful candidate will have professional experience or practice equivalent to relevant doctoral level research degree with specific leadership/management, be an Association of Family Therapy accredited systemic family therapist and have HCPC/NMC/BPS/SWE registration as Health and/or Care Practitioner.
The successful candidate will have substantial experience in providing evidence-based impactful service provision to a diverse group of individuals with a range of needs and experience of working with a health and/or social care caseload.
This a part time, fixed term role until 30 September 2027 for 14.4 hours per week.
At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity is central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.
To support this commitment we have our, a staff-led network that promotes and celebrates the rich cultural diversity among Essex staff, and our Colchester campus based, which hosts regular services, meetings and events organised by our chaplains and faith representatives.