The Minster Centre is seeking a Tutor to teach the First Year Humanistic / Existential module to our first-year psychotherapy and counselling students. Teaching takes place in person at our building in Queens Park, London NW6.
Salary range
£4,580.00 per cohort (inclusive of marking), on a PAYE basis
Teaching hours
Tuesday 12.00pm - 2.30pm (30 weeks)
Contract
To start 19/9/23 for 2023 - 2024 academic year (in the first instance), fixed term to July 2024
Reports to
First Year Course Leader (CL)
Background and summary of the job
The Minster Centre is a registered charity based in Queens Park, NW6 that trains Integrative psychotherapists and counsellors. Our courses are accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and validated by Middlesex University and the Centre is registered with the Office for Students (OfS). The Minster Centre also provides a psychotherapy and counselling service to the local community (both online and in person) delivered by senior trainees.
Minster Centre Training draws on Humanistic, Existential and Psychodynamic theories including contemporary relational and embodied approaches.
The Minster Centre has made a commitment to working to increase EDI in counselling and psychotherapy. Specifically, increasing the diversity of members of the profession, increasing the accessibility and suitability of counselling and psychotherapy for all communities and identities, making our training more accessible and relevant to trainees from all backgrounds and intersectionalities, and equipping the therapists we train to work in a diverse society. As an experiential training and one that seeks to work at depth this is important work that leads us to question and explore our assumptions as therapists and trainers and to explore and challenge our own identities. You will be invited to join us in additional training and reflection as part of this work.
Duties and responsibilities
The post holder will teach trainees in their first year of training towards qualification as either counsellors or psychotherapists. We take a maximum of 52 students into the first year and this group is divided into two cohorts, each with a Course Leader. Cohorts are divided into two groups with 12-13 students in each group. First year students take four modules – Skills, From Objects Relations to Current Psychodynamic Thinking, Humanistic and Existential Models of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Experiential Training Group. The Humanistic Module runs for 15 weeks. Applicants will teach one cohort (which will mean they teach 2.5 hours each week for the 30-week academic year and will take part in the assessment of around 24 students).
How to Apply
Please apply using the downloadable Application, Record Declaration and Equal Opportunities forms below with a covering email to Afua Pierre [email protected]
Closing date: 5pm on Thursday 15th June 2023
Interviews: Friday 23rd June 2023
For further information contact:
Jenny Clark [email protected] or
Nancy Browner [email protected]
We particularly welcome applications from people from underrepresented groups in the field of psychotherapy and counselling and in our organisation, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, the LGBT+ community, care leavers, disabled people and people from other minorities.
Please review whether you currently have any Minster Centre students as clients and in which year and let us know if this is the case so that we can manage any potential dual relationships.
