Staff Tutor in Psychology and Counselling
- Employer
- OPEN UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Homeworking
- Salary
- £42,149 to £50,296
- Closing date
- 8 Nov 2021
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- Academic Discipline
- Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Tutors
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
The role
As an academic member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the School of Psychology & Counselling, you will have a key role in keeping the OU in the forefront of supported distance higher education, particularly in designing and facilitating effective teaching of the School’s modules, qualifications and programmes. You will also be responsible for the selection, monitoring and staff development of part-time Associate Lecturers, who teach modules across 4 British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited undergraduate psychology qualifications, a counselling qualification, joint honours qualifications and 2 postgraduate qualifications.
Skills and experience
You will hold, as a minimum requirement, a postgraduate degree (or equivalent) in Psychology, or a cognate area, and have relevant experience of online teaching and management of teaching, line management and of student support.
You will be a homeworker. Regular travel to Milton Keynes and occasional travel to other UK locations will be required.
The full summary of duties and person specification can be found within the Job Description below.
What you get in return
We offer a great range of benefits that support our employees and their families for the long term. Benefits include 33 days holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days and an attractive pension proposition.
Widening Participation
We value diversity and we recognise that different people bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge and culture, and that this difference brings great strength.
Company
The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning. Since it began in 1969, the OU has taught more than 1.8 million students and has almost 180,000 current students, including more than 15,000 overseas.
The OU was given an overall satisfaction rating of 90% in the latest National Student Survey, making it one of only three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to consistently score 90% or above every year since 2007. Over 70% of students are in full-time or part-time employment, and four out of five FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses.
In the latest assessment exercise for university research (Research Excellence Framework), nearly three quarters (72%) of The Open University’s research was assessed as 4 or 3 star – the highest ratings available – and awarded to research that is world-leading or internationally excellent. The Open University is unique among UK universities having both an access mission and demonstrating research excellence.
The OU has a 41 year partnership with the BBC and has moved from late-night lectures in the 1970s to co-producing prime-time series such as Frozen Planet, The Bottom Line, Britain’s Great War, I Bought a Rainforest and Business Boomers. In 2013/14 OU co-productions were viewed by 220m people in the UK which prompted more than 600k visits the OU’s free learning website, OpenLearn. (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/).
Regarded as Britain’s major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast ‘open content portfolio’ includes free study units on OpenLearn, which received 5.2million unique visitors in 2012/13, and materials on iTunes U, which has recorded more than 66 million downloads.
- Telephone
- +(44)01908 274066
- Location
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WALTON HALL
MILTON KEYNES
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
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