Project Coordinator - CYP Psychological Workforce Training Portfolio

Supporting the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences: Psychology, Cedar

The Faculty wishes to recruit a Project Coordinator in support of developing, implementing, and coordinating Cedar and Cedar Create training and implementation activity.  This part-time (0.8FTE) post is available from March 2024 on a fixed term basis until the 31st of December 2025 within Clinical Education Development and Research (Cedar) within Psychology.

About the role

Cedar is an applied psychological centre of excellence whose core mission is to grow and develop the psychological workforce, maximising impact through training and development, service transformation alongside research and evaluation.  In doing so, we aim to ensure access to evidence based psychological practice that leads to positive outcomes for service-users, service providers and funders across England and beyond.  Cedar’s training activity and clinical impact is supported, developed, and advanced through Cedar Create, delivering concomitant consultation, research, evaluation, analytics and CPD activity resulting in significant benefits to the provision of psychological support.

The primary aim of the role is to provide events support, project co-ordination and effective partner communications relating to the activity of Cedar’s Children and Young Peoples (CYP) psychological workforce clinical training portfolio and the Cedar Create CPD portfolio. The role will engage with individuals and partnership services within Cedar’s Community of Practice (CoP) regionally, nationally, and internationally. You will work with the CYP Directors of Portfolio, Director of Cedar Create and Cedar Create Partnership and Innovation Manager to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of teaching and CPD programmes in accordance with Cedar’s education strategy and the CYP Community of Practice (CoP) Terms of References.

The University of Exeter   

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024).  We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes. 

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today.  More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).  

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research – Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City  

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment  

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces. 

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.   

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer. 

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.  

Benefits   

We offer some fantastic benefits including: 

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working 
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further Information

Before submitting an application, you may wish to discuss the post further by contacting Dr Alex Boyd by email on [email protected]   or Prof Jonathan Parker at [email protected]