Associate Head / Professor: Psychology

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Division: College of Training, Language & Psychology
Location: York
Wage:
£57,696 to £73,040
every year
Closing Date: Monday 29 April 2024 at midnight
Interview Date:
Friday 10 Might 2024
Reference: 260-23-R

Full time everlasting

Location: York 

Wage at Affiliate Head stage – £57,696 – £68,857 every year

Wage at Professor stage – £68,857 – £73,040 every year

In regards to the College

York St John is an bold, fashionable college on the coronary heart of historic York and there has by no means been a extra thrilling time to affix us. 

 As one of many quickest rising universities within the UK over latest years, now we have a brand new technique for the following decade, emphasising our dedication to widening alternative by way of the ability of training and contributing our abilities to making a fairer world, and a extra affluent area. We’re placing impactful analysis and inspirational studying on the coronary heart of this technique, recognising our educational experience as our biggest asset. 

The College 

Psychology is situated inside the College of Training, Language and Psychology, and it sits alongside Counselling, Languages and Linguistics, Preliminary Trainer Training, and Youngsters, Younger Individuals and Training.

Psychology is an bold and rising educational unit inside the College. Our key areas of analysis power are in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology, and neurodiversity and psychological well being. We’re moreover rising our experience in medical and forensic functions of psychology. In REF2021, over 70% of the Psychology analysis outputs and 100% of impression had been rated as world main or internationally wonderful. Our analysis infrastructure contains devoted labs and technical help, together with specialised EEG, digital actuality, eye-tracking, and video-observation gear and rooms.

Psychology has grown in workers and scholar numbers in any respect ranges of research lately. We have now additionally considerably elevated the variety of PGR college students, who’re supported by instructing or analysis scholarships. Constantly wonderful instructing and an inclusive ethos present an distinctive expertise for college students, as demonstrated by a persistently sturdy efficiency within the Nationwide Pupil Survey. Taught programmes in Psychology embrace a collection of BPS-accredited undergraduate levels, taught Grasp’s programmes, and an accredited skilled Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.  

The Function 

We’re in search of a succesful and compassionate educational to guide Psychology within the subsequent section of its improvement. The profitable candidate will display a longtime analysis profile allied to our current analysis strengths, as demonstrated by printed outputs and exterior grant seize.

 The function holder could have principal duty for main the Psychology educational group and can maintain line administration duty for educational workers within the space, with help from two Deputy Affiliate Heads. The profitable candidate will signify and champion Psychology as a member of the College Educational Management Group, and contribute to the general strategic improvement of the College. 

Key Necessities 

The profitable candidate could have a transparent understanding of the challenges of instructing and doing analysis in Psychology in greater training. They are going to have a longtime analysis profile, and their track-record of excellence in analysis will permit them to mentor and help the event of early profession researchers. They may even be a inventive and succesful trainer. Importantly, the profitable candidate will share our dedication to social justice and be totally dedicated to offering inclusive instructional experiences that enhance the lives of our college students and the broader communities through which they stay. The profitable candidate shall be a powerful group participant who conjures up colleagues and leads with integrity.

It’s important that candidates maintain a doctoral stage qualification. The profitable candidate could have a demonstrable track-record of management of instructing and studying and/or analysis and public engagement in greater training. 

Purposes are invited from candidates who meet the particular person specs for the function of Affiliate Head (Grade 9). Candidates who meet the standards for Professor (Grade 10) at York St John College are additionally welcome to use.

Additional Info

For casual enquiries please contact the Head of College: Professor Rachel Wicaksono ([email protected] ) or the Psychology REF Unit of Evaluation Lead: Dr Jelena Mirkovic ([email protected]).

 Please go to our webpages and our X/Twitter profile to search out out extra about Psychology at York St John College, together with our workers and our analysis (https://weblog.yorksj.ac.uk/psychology/ ; @ysjpych).

This function is eligible for Expert Employee Visa sponsorship.  For additional info relating to this visa route please go to Expert Employee visa: Overview – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Purposes for job share shall be thought-about.

When you require an inexpensive adjustment with the intention to apply for this place please contact [email protected].  Inside the utility type there is a chance so that you can request an inexpensive adjustment on the interview stage of the method, nonetheless for those who want to focus on this in additional element at any level  within the course of please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We provide a spread of household pleasant and inclusive insurance policies and amenities to help workers from totally different backgrounds. As a part of our dedication to offering an inclusive working setting, consideration is given to all requests for job share or versatile working preparations. 

Please notice that CVs aren’t accepted instead of the appliance type.

Our advantages package deal

We provide a variety of worker advantages together with – 

– Glorious annual go away entitlement, together with 5 discretionary college closure days over the Christmas interval

– Incapacity go away (applies to workers who’ve disclosed a incapacity and can be obtainable to workers with disabled dependants)

– Pension scheme

– Well being Money Plan after six months service

– Worker Help Programme

– Paid go away for Armed Forces Reservists

– On-campus programs, one-to-one tutorials, and on-line sources that can assist you develop your digital abilities and work with new software program

– Relocation bills package deal for sure roles

– Reimbursement of Expert Employee Visa utility charges and Visa mortgage scheme for extra prices

Additional details about life at YSJ

Learn extra about our tradition, inclusive neighborhood, working preparations and advantages for York St John workers right here.  

The newest information, views and tales from our workers and college students will be discovered right here.  

We’re dedicated to managing and decreasing our environmental impression and to selling sustainable improvement wherever we are able to, learn extra right here.

Closing Date –
Monday 29 April 2024 at midnight

Provisional Interview Date –
Friday 10 Might 2024