Clinical Psychologist

NHS Scotland

  • Glasgow
  • £62,681-67,665 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
  • Do you have experience working in Adult Mental Health services, particularly working within a multi-disciplinary team?
  • Are you confident in assessing and understanding a wide range of clinical presentations, from moderate to complex cases?
  • Can you demonstrate significant experience in delivering psychological therapies and providing clinical supervision?
NHS 24 have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Service Delivery directorate within the Mental Health Services as a Clinical Psychologist. Read on to find out more…..Who We AreAs NHS Scotland's unique provider of a national tele-health and tele-care service, we are responsible for the delivery of health advice and information by telephone and online services to the population of Scotland 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NHS 24 is a patient-focused service providing the people of Scotland with triage, advice, guidance, referral and information on health and healthcare services.We have six regional centres - Aberdeen, Dundee, South Queensferry, Hillington, Cardonald and Clydebank. This post will be based in our Cardonald Contact Centre.This RoleTo work within the enhanced psychology pathway within NHS 24 Psychological Services providing evidence-based treatments for individuals with moderate to complex psychological difficulties or who have higher levels of psychological need / risk. This will primarily involve individual clinical work over NearMe or telephone, and in the future, there may be potential for the provision of group interventions.Working HoursThis role benefits from the stability of a set rotational rota within our operational hours - Monday to Friday, 9am-9pm, and Saturdays, 10am-6pm. This structure offers a predictable schedule that supports work-life balance, an example rota is included in the Job Pack. Please reach out if you wish to discuss the working hours arrangement in more detail.Main responsibilities
  • To provide psychological interventions to patients accessing support through NHS 24 Psychological Services.
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and provide psychological therapies to individuals with a wide range of mental health or physical health needs, as part of an enhanced pathway of psychological support.
  • To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team / service.
  • To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and formulation-based interventions for individuals within the service.
  • To implement the systems for the assessment, identification, escalation, and treatment processes for those individuals who have mental health disorders. To ensure robust clinical governance systems in place to establish individual and team formulations as well as patient/staff centred treatment plans.
  • To manage own specialist caseload using evidence-based techniques and maintain clinical records.
  • To contribute to, and be responsible for, the further development of, and evaluation of, the service.
Successful Applicant will:
  • Have significant experience of working in adult mental health and an ability to understand a range of clinical presentations including moderate to complex presentations.
  • Experience of working within an Mult-Disciplinary Team and the disciplines involved in adult mental health.
  • Substantial clinical experience delivering psychological therapy and supervision.
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as an independent practitioner and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Aware of the limits of one's competence and expertise and work within those boundaries.
  • Willingness and competence to effectively deliver psycho-educational materials to patients, other health care staff and third sector colleagues.
  • Willingness and competence to prepare psychoeducational materials.
  • Ability to deal with pressure calmly and sensitively.
  • A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
  • Evidence and commitment to ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
  • Experience of delivering digital therapies and offering treatment appointments remotely over near me would be advantageous.
SalaryNHS 24 offers a complete benefits package, with a 9-month Fixed term opportunity on a Band 8A contract with a salary ranging from £62,681 - £67,665 Per Annum (pro rata if applicable). Placement on salary scale is dependent on confirmation of previous relevant NHS service.Please download the for full details of NHS 24 and this opportunity as well as the which will support you in your application.We recommend that prior to application candidates read all the information provided in the Job Pack as it contains much of the information about NHS 24 and this vacancy to support a successful application.Our mission at NHS 24 is to create a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued and part of the team. As an organisation that promotes inclusion, we celebrate difference, and we encourage everyone who joins us to be themselves at work.We are progressing an Anti-Racism Action Plan, which builds on our existing equalities work, and this will help us to measure our progress towards becoming an anti-racist organisation.NHS 24 is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visas as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.Please note that NHS 24 is NOT licensed to issue certificates of sponsorship under current UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) regulations. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship to work with us.It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

NHS Scotland