Senior Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Who we are:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran is one of 14 territorial NHS Boards within NHS Scotland.

In support of our core purpose of Working together to achieve the healthiest life possible for everyone in Ayrshire and Arran we are committed to a culture that is Caring Safe and Respectful. You will be required to work collaboratively in a safe, caring and respectful way.

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Position

An opportunity has arisen for a permanent Senior Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist based at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine.

What you will do:

You will deliver sessions to our Community Paediatric Service based at Rainbow House, Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine. Allocation of sessions will be determined by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and will reflect the need to meet the requirements of Children and Families in Ayrshire and Arran. You will be expected to contribute to the specialist Clinical Psychology requirements of the multidisciplinary Community Paediatric Service and offer specialist clinical case and therapeutic supervision as appropriate to fellow clinicians.

You will be required to provide psychological interventions in complex cases, to manage waiting lists for therapies, to provide line-management and clinical supervision for Clinical Psychology staff. You will also be expected to play a lead role in service development.

You will provide a highly specialised clinical psychology service to users of the Specialty Service, offering specialist advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non professional carers, supporting and developing teaching packages and pathways, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

As well as providing assessment and treatment for the most complex patients, increasing the capacity of the team to deliver psychological interventions via supervision, training and consultancy, you will also be required to take a clinical lead on a specialist area of practice such as advanced diagnosis or intervention, or proposing policy/service changes and setting up/co-ordinating services or systems which impact within and beyond own practice within psychology services.

For further information on the role please click the link below to view the job description

Knowledge, training and/or experience required to do the job:

Please see attached Job Description for further information.

You must be HCPC registered.

For further information on the requirements for the role please click the link below to view the person specification

Hours: 29.7 per week. A variation in contracted hours may be considered.

A car licence/car ownership is essential to this role.

An excellent relocation package of up to £12,000 is available depending on eligibility.

If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Kerry Teer, Head of Psychological Specialty: Child and Family on 01294 322320 (Kerry Teer) / kerry.teer@aapct.scot.nhs.uk or Vanessa Watt, Clinical Psychologist (Lead Specialist), NA H&SCP - Community Paediatrics on 01294 323072 / vanessa.watt@aapct.scot.nhs.uk.

From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week (pro rata for part-time staff) until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Ayrshire and Arran is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

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