Sport Psychology Assistant - #1209824
University of Edinburgh
Garde UE02: £21,978 to £22,134 per annum pro-rata
Corporate Services Group / Sport & Exercise
Part-time: 8 hours per week
Fixed term: for 35 weeks (2nd September 2024 – 2nd May 2025)
Are you seeking quality applied experience which will contribute towards your development as a sport/performance psychologist, or performance coach? We are looking to appoint a part-time Sport Psychology Assistant for the academic year 2024-25, to support the delivery of our growing Sport Psychology programme. Training, mentoring and access to a range of quality learning experiences will be provided as part of the Performance Sport Support Services Hub. Our ideal candidates are proactive, with great people skills and a motivation to develop into excellent practitioners.
The Opportunity:
Working 8h per week, be part of our 5-person sport psychology team, led by the Head of Sport Psychology. You will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of the sport psychology service across the performance programme, including delivering 1-1 support and educational workshops to athletes, working within multi-disciplinary teams and performance coaches across the performance sport tiers.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Quickly build rapport with people.
- A passion for applying your knowledge of performance psychology to real-world situations.
- Ability to work flexibly and adjust your work to the context you’re in.
- Understand the Sport & Exercise values ‘Open to Everybody’, ‘Anything is Possible’ and ‘Enabling Excellence’.
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As a 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, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total 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 (opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 12th July 2024.
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Interviews will be held on w/c 15th July 2024.
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