Contract type: Permanent (Subject to a probationary period of 6 months)
Hours: 22.5 hours p/week (Must be able to work Thursday 9am – 5pm, but remaining 15 hours are flexible, to be agreed with your line manager), including very occasional evening work and weekend work
Salary: £25,000 p/annum (pro rata £15,000 p/annum)
Location: SIP’s central Bristol office during term time, with flexibility to work from home out of term time
ROLE CONTEXT
SIP offers a number of courses in psychoanalytic thinking and applications as standalone courses and British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) accredited clinical trainings in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
At any one time there are between 45 - 60 individuals from a variety of professional backgrounds following our training programmes. Our seminars are led by a wide variety of up to 25 experienced Psychoanalytical and Psychodynamic Psychotherapists who are all members of SIP (or other BPC Member Institutes) delivering the programmes on a freelance basis around their clinical commitments. This gives our student body the opportunity to interact with a wide range of experienced therapists during their training.
Although our student numbers are small, their individual learning pathways are specific to them and, as a result, the role of the Training Administrator needs to support a reasonable amount of complexity in assisting the curriculum to be delivered each year to a student body who may spend several years working with us as part of their overall experience and training to qualify as a psychotherapist, whilst many of them manage a ‘day-job’ too.
Training is delivered at SIP in three ten-week blocks each year, which are split into five- week segments either side of the Bristol schools’ three designated half-term holidays, and delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon/evenings. The period between February and July is the busiest time of the year in this role as one academic year comes to an end and recruitment starts for the next one. The Training Administrator will have many ‘open loops’ during this part of their working year, where they will need to manage different priorities and effective task switching between different activities, students, and members of SIP during one working day. In essence, this is a post done in non-standard working hours supporting others also working non- standard hours following an academic calendar.
The deadline for applications is Thursday 8TH June 2023 (5 PM).
To apply, please send your CV, accompanied by a cover letter addressing the Person Specification, with the Job Description in mind (both found below), to hr@sipsychotherapy.org.
Interviews will take place on Friday 16th June 2023.
If invited to interview, applicants will need to be available on this date (if you know you cannot attend, please state this in your application as we may be able to accommodate another interview date).