Professional Practice Fellow - Psychological Medicine

About our team

The University of Otago is New Zealand's first university and one of its finest.

It is a leader across all fields of academic endeavour – health sciences, the humanities, sciences, and business – regularly topping the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission's education performance indicators.

With its commitment to excellence in teaching, research and clinical leadership, the Department of Psychological Medicine aims to advance psychological medicine by bringing together our academic and clinical expertise in psychiatry and psychology (clinical and health).

The role

The Department has an exciting opportunity for a part-time, fixed-term position as a Professional Practice Fellow.

In this role you will contribute to and support the teaching of medical students undertaken by the psychologists in the Department ("the Behavioural Science Team") and the Psychiatrists in the Department (i.e., Advance Learning Medicine training).

The successful candidate for this role will :

Be responsible for teaching across a range of lectures and group tutorials in the undergraduate medical curriculum, with a focus on the teaching of mental disorders, behavioural medicine and developmental psychology.

Facilitate learning by conducting demonstrations, tutorials, or workshops in relation to clinical skills.

Assist with teaching administration, preparing course materials and maintain your own professional practice.

Be committed to upholding the University's core values related to support and success of Maori and Pacific students, aligned with the University's Maori Strategic Framework and Pacific Strategic Framework.

Your skills and experience

The successful applicant will :

Be qualified as a Clinical Psychologist.

Have had substantial experience of health professional work.

Preferably have experience in teaching at the tertiary level.

Further details

This is a part-time (0.3 FTE), fixed-term position from January 2026 to October 2026, based in Otepoti, Dunedin.

You must have the right to live and work in New Zealand to apply for this position.

The successful candidate will be appointed to an appropriate step on the University of Otago Teaching and Professional Practice Fellow scale, based on qualifications, skills and experience.

As a part-time position, the salary range for this role will be the pro-rata equivalent of the annual full-time salary range.

Specific enquiries may be directed to Dr Tess Patterson, Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, via the contact details below.

Application

Candidates are requested to submit the following :

A CV.

A cover letter.

Names and contact details of at least three referees.

To submit your application please click the apply button below.

Applications quoting reference number 2501350 will close on Monday, 29 September 2025.

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