Grade UE08: £50,253 - £61,759 per annum, pro rata if part-time
Salary with potential for a market pay supplement to offer equivalent pay to NHS Agenda for Change 8a step 1 (£62,681 pro rata) depending on academic and clinical experience and qualifications.
CAHSS / School of Health in Social Science / Clinical & Health Psychology
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended (permanent) contract
We are looking for an a skilled, experienced, and collegiate Clinical Psychologist to contribute to core teaching, skills training and thesis supervision in Clinical & Health Psychology, predominantly to students on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. The successful candidate may also contribute to research within the department.
The Opportunity:
This post is designed to contribute to core teaching activity in Clinical Psychology. This post will primarily teach and support students on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsychol). This programme is well-established, and has an intake of approximately 40 to 46 students per year. Students are Psychology graduates and are employed by the National Health Service as Trainee Clinical Psychologists. The post holder will contribute to their training with clinical and therapeutic skills teaching, and with conceptual / academic or research methods teaching, depending on the background and skills of the successful candidate. This post is predominantly focussed on practice education and would suit a clinician with experience of training and supervision to enter into academia and build their career as an academic.
For candidates without a strong track record in research this position can be offered as a teaching only position, though it is our preference to offer it as a teaching and research position to candidates who can demonstrate a track record in research as well as good teaching credentials. For candidates seeking a teaching and research lectureship, they will be supported to develop their programme of research in collaboration with other departmental research themes.
There is one post available, and it can be configured as full time or part time. The minimum part time allocation we could accommodate would be 0.4 FTE.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- Experience and expertise in teaching and training
- Experience of supporting DClinPsychol students either in the NHS or University setting, sensitivity to student needs
- Experience of supervising student research projects
For research & teaching lectureship: a track record of high-quality research outputs
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If you would like to discuss this opportunity informally, please email the Head of Subject Area, Jessica Kelly [email protected] or alternatively you may wish to email Deputy Head of Clinical Psychology, Prof Liz Gilchrist, [email protected] or the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme Director, Dr David Gillanders: [email protected]
How to apply
Please include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
A competitive salary.
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages .
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
Please note if the role is offered on a part-time basis, it may result in sponsorship being dependent on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant or the role no longer meeting the Home Office’s criteria for sponsorship.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 31 st July 2026 .
Unless stated otherwise, the closing time for applications is 11:59 pm (UK time). If you are applying from outside the UK, the closing time shown on our adverts will automatically adjust to your browser’s local time zone.
Interviews will likely to be held on 16 th September 2026 , in person - the day will be split with teaching presentations scheduled in the morning and interviews in the afternoon.
Clinical & Health Psychology
The Clinical & Health Psychology subject area runs a range of taught postgraduate degrees in applied and developmental psychology. The largest is the BPS accredited Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion). This Programme allows graduates of any discipline to study for a year and acquire Graduate Basis for Chartership with the BPS. It is unique in combining the core requirements of the GBC with a focus on understanding Mental Health and wellbeing from a psychological perspective.
Three of our taught postgraduate degrees are delivered in partnership with Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland, formerly NES) as well as local NHS Boards: the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, the MSc Applied Psychology for Children and Young People (Healthcare) and the MSc Psychological Therapies. We also offer an MSc in Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Psychological Approaches, a distance learning programme MSc in Children & Young People's Mental Health and Psychological Approaches, and of course, PhD and MSc by Research. The subject area currently has over 40 academic staff (many also holding clinical posts in the NHS) who contribute to research and teaching activity. It also has 2.5 full-time office support staff together with support from the wider School office team. The current Head of Clinical Psychology is Dr Jessica Kelly. The Deputy Head of Clinical Psychology, and the line manager responsible for this post will be Prof Liz Gilchrist.
Clinical Psychology has an active research group in the area of applied developmental psychology and psychological therapies research. In the 2020 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Clinical Psychology, together with Psychology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry (REF Unit of Assessment 04) was ranked 2 nd in the UK for overall quality of its research and 3 rd in relation to its quality and breadth of research. Our vibrant research community focuses on brain, mind and mental health across the lifespan, with particular strengths in psychological treatments, cognitive neurosciences, and theoretical and applied work in contextual and social predictors and applied child development. Both research environment and research impact were rated 100% - classified as “World Leading”. 90% of the UOA’s outputs were judged to be world-leading and internationally excellent.
Overall, the University of Edinburgh was ranked number 4 in the UK for research power and number 1 in Scotland. The research interests of academic staff in clinical psychology comprise the following programmatic research areas:
Developmental psychopathology of significant mental health difficulties; Autistic Spectrum and Theory of Mind; Attachment; Parenting; Eating Behaviours and Disorders; Trauma and Abuse; Medically Unexplained Symptoms; Anxiety and Stress Management; Depression; Emotion Regulation; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Mindfulness and Third Wave Approaches; Personality Disorders and Maladaptive Schemas; Sex Offenders; Psychosis; At Risk Mental States; Long-Term Health Conditions; psychological therapies development and evaluation; RCT methodologies. Further details of the subject area’s research themes can be found here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/clinical-psychology/research
For more information about the School and the subject area visit here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/health
