Associate Lecturer - Music Therapy

Therapeutic Arts

Challenging, interesting and constantly changing, the University of Derby is an extraordinary place to learn and an incredibly rewarding place to work. Ours is an extraordinary educational environment and because we specialise in identifying and developing individual potential, you can be confident you'll receive all the help and encouragement you need to build a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress. Our combined higher and further education offering is spread over campuses in Derby, Buxton, Leek and Chesterfield and we have some of the best university facilities in the UK, investing more than £200 million in facilities in the last 10 years. We achieve outstanding results for our teaching* and research and with more than 34,000 people choosing to study with us every year, we depend on the dedication of a team of 2,200 academic and professional services staff. Financially strong and seriously ambitious we offer our employees a family-friendly, rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress.

The successful candidates will join a team of passionate and committed staff delivering education in the arts therapies and arts in health. The new post-holders will contribute to the delivery of our newly validated MA in Music Therapy; which complements our well-established Masters-level training programmes in art therapy, dramatherapy and dance movement psychotherapy.

The posts are based in the discipline of Therapeutic practice, within the School of Allied Health and Social Care, one of two schools within the College of Health and Social Care. These are hourly-based roles, with hours allocated based on expertise and needs of the programme.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect everyone who works for us to also share this commitment and to treat people with courtesy and respect.

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