Job summary
- Main area
- psychoanalyst, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, analytic psychotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 260-TP-918
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Lecturer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
The position of Senior Lecturer has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery; in this instance, oversight of the digital component of the MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58), which is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council. The post holder will work flexibly across a range of programmes to provide teaching, supervision and tuition to master’s and where appropriate, doctoral students, as required. The post holder will also be involved in recruitment and assessment processes and will assist flexibly in all aspects of course delivery within the portfolio and other portfolios where relevant.
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and main duties.
Working for our organisation
The MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58) is situated within the DET Psychoanalytic Portfolio. Other courses currently within this portfolio are:
- Masters in Psychological Therapy with Children, Young People and Families, (M34) BPC accredited
- Trust Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists (M14) BPC accredited
- Trust Certificate in Interdisciplinary Training in Adult Psychotherapy (M1) BPC accredited
- Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (M80) ACP accredited
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- BCP analytic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst
- Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education
- 5 years or more of experience in a clinical setting
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to convey complex ideas in teaching and learning environments
Desirable criteria
- Track record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity.
- Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rodrigo Sanchez Escandon
- Job title
- Course lead M58
- Email address
- [email protected]
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