Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology

NHS National Services Scotland; Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

NHS Fife Psychology Service invites applications for a part-time psychologist to join the Adult Mental Health Psychology Team. The post is split across Dunfermline and West Fife AMH Locality with sessions in UCAT-PI, delivering brief psychological interventions and contributing to service redesign and development to meet patient needs.

You will receive regular clinical and managerial supervision, access to CPD, and must obtain PVG clearance before appointment.

Responsibilities

• Become a member of the PVG Scheme prior to appointment.
• Work across Dunfermline and West Fife AMH Locality service and UCAT-PI.
• Deliver a range of psychological interventions within a tiered model and support service redesign.

Job description

Part time 24.12 hours per week; across 9-5 Monday - Friday

NHS Fife Psychology Service is a large, friendly and supportive place to work. We provide a service to the whole of Fife that includes all the major clinical specialties. We have an excellent reputation for innovation and developing staff.

We would like you to join our Adult Mental Health Psychology Team. We are looking for people with initiative and enthusiasm who will contribute to service redesign and development to best meet the needs of our patients. There will be opportunities to develop your clinical expertise and for research and service evaluation to support this programme of work.

This is a split post across the Dunfermline and West Fife AMH Locality service, and the Unscheduled Care Psychological Interventions Team (UCAT-PI). This post will provide clinical sessions based within our Dunfermline and West Fife AMH locality service, delivering a range of interventions within a tiered approach to service delivery and contributing to the transformation of psychological care across Fife. The post will also provide sessions Fife wide in the UCAT-PI Service, providing brief Psychological interventions (4 sessions) to those who have presented to UCAT services in crisis. Referrals come from the UCAT team.

You will have access to regular clinical and managerial supervision as well as opportunities for additional peer support. We have an active in-house CPD programme as well as access to external CPD to support service developments.

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

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 visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.

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.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.