Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Irvine, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland

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Irvine, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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A vacancy for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist has arisen within pan-Ayrshire Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) in NHS Ayrshire & Arran.

This post provides clinical leadership for psychology provision to the CAMHS service as a whole.

Clinically, you will provide specialist assessment and intervention for children and young people who present with complex mental health difficulties.

You will also provide consultancy to other psychologists, psychological therapists and the wider group of clinicians who provide psychological care for children and young people.

This post has management and professional leadership responsibility for Psychology staff working across the CAMHS Teams, and you will be part of the CAMHS Leadership Team.

You will have interest in, and experience of, working with children and young people who present with complex mental health difficulties in a community setting as well as experience in the provision of multi-disciplinary consultancy and supervision to this client group.

The post requires experience in the design and implementation of integrated psychological services.

It also requires particular commitment to working within a multi-disciplinary service in order to best meet the needs of children and young people.

NHS Ayrshire & Arran Psychological Services comprises of over 100 staff including Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists in CBT, Clinical Associates in Applied Psychology, Counsellors, Graduate Assistant Psychologists and Masters and Doctoral Psychology Trainees.

The Psychological Service delivers area-wide psychological provision through the Professional Lead for Psychological Services, Heads of Specialty and Consultant Psychology Leads across the Psychological Specialties.

Services are delivered to the population directly through specialist therapeutic intervention with patients with complex difficulties.

Psychological Services provides expert advice, consultancy, training and supervision in order to develop the psychological skills of other health and non-health professionals.

It also aims to enhance the delivery of psychological care across the whole healthcare system through formal contribution at strategic and planning levels.

The service places a strong emphasis on governance and has a number of internal special interest and working groups. We provide excellent opportunities for CPD to support high-quality service delivery to patients and career development for our staff.

The service has close links with the University of Glasgow, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme and both the Adult and Child Clinical Associates in Applied Psychology Programmes at Dundee, Stirling and Edinburgh Universities.

You must be HCPC registered as a Practitioner Clinical Psychologist.

Given our pan-Ayrshire service across three Partnership areas, a car owner and driver is preferable.

This post is permanent and is offered full-time.

Variation in these contracted hours will be considered with a minimum 0.8 WTE up to 1.0 WTE
An excellent relocation package of up to £12,000 is available depending on eligibility.

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