Clinical Lead – Trauma Responsive Social Work Service

NHS Scotland; Tan Office Green; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Scotland recherche un Psychologue Clinique expérimenté pour un rôle de leadership dans un programme national. Vous serez responsable de coordonner l’échelle de travail avec des parties prenantes clés, en vous concentrant sur l'amélioration des services psychosociaux à travers l'Écosse. Une occasion unique de contribuer au développement de pratiques réactives au traumatisme.

Benefits

Flexibilité de travail

Pension généreuse du NHS

Progression salariale annuelle

27 jours de congé annuel

Réductions NHS

Qualifications

• Capacité à travailler sous initiative et à prioriser les charges de travail.
• Connaissances approfondies en psychologie clinique.
• Expérience dans le développement et la mise en œuvre de formations.

Responsibilities

• Rôle de leader stratégique dans un programme national.
• Interaction avec divers organismes et gestion de services sociaux.
• Fournir une expertise hautement développée au sein de l'équipe de psychologie.

Skills

Leadership

Coordination

Strategic Planning

Education Design

Change Management

Compassion

Education

Doctorat en Psychologie

Job description

Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work

Please note frequent requirement for attendance at national and team meetings, typically in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Travel will be required to support programme implementation, including in person training deliver

Work Pattern: Fixed term/Secondment, up to Full Time, Up to 37 hours – please indicate number of hours available within application (minimum of 15)

2025 pay award pending

You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.

Who We Are

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.

The NES Psychology Directorate has two major areas of responsibility:

• Training of psychologists for NHS Scotland
• Upskilling the existing multi-professional workforce in psychological care
  
  

NES has responsibility for commissioning pre-registration training for clinical and applied psychology for NHSScotland. Through partnership working with NHS Boards and Universities, we have been involved in ensuring training pathways reflect changing service needs. The Directorate has developed relationships with a wide

range of other stakeholders in Scotland (e.g. Scottish Government, Scottish Social Services Council, Higher Education Institutes) and across the UK (e.g. Department of Health, professional and regulatory bodies) to take forward its modernisation agenda for this professional group.

The directorate has a leading role in developing NES educational strategy to support increased availability of psychological interventions and therapies as well as a significant role in supporting implementation in practice. NES has been directed to work in partnership with Scottish Government, the Scottish Social Services Council, NHS Boards and other key stakeholders to increase the capacity within the current workforce to deliver evidence based psychological interventions

The Opportunity

Working within the Psychology Directorate, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to take up a strategic leadership role in a high-profile programme of work at national level.

You will be directly accountable to the Associate Director for Psychology at NES and the Trauma Responsive Social Work Programme Lead at Scottish Government. Working closely with the key stakeholders through a Partnership Delivery Group, you will provide highly developed expertise and part of the leadership to a small team who will engage with social work services that are working to develop their service provision. The team will work closely with the overall NES Psychology Trauma Team (NTTP) as well as the National Trauma Transformation Programme national partners to support work to embed trauma enhanced practice in trauma responsive systems and services, across children’s, adult and justice social work services in Scotland.

The Office of the Chief Social Work Adviser (OCSWA) is the key source in Scottish Government for professionally informed advice across the range of government policy and delivery related to social work and social care. A programme of work has been developed in partnership with key stakeholders that includes social work education, post qualifying training and implementation support to develop trauma-responsive social work services.

What We Love To See

offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:

• highly specialised knowledge, some of which is at the forefront of knowledge in this field of work, which you use as the basis for original thinking, strategic planning, leadership, education design and implementation and/or research;
• will proactively co-ordinate and connect a range of activities across the interface between NES, OCSW, Scottish Government and services within NHS Scotland;
• takes responsibility for the development and implementation of education that will support the key strategic themes of developing educational infrastructure and building workforce capacity for service improvement across Scotland;
• effectively manage change in order to deliver successful outcomes;
• works as part of a team and in partnership with executives and senior managers across stakeholder organisations and wide ranging parts of the public service, agencies and learning & development providers, thereby influencing and building sustained improvements to capability and capacity
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
• Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, to meet strict deadlines
  
  

Benefits Which Matter

As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
• Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
• NHS discounts and more
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion

Developing a successful national service for Scotland is impossible without ensuring we consider the diverse needs, perspectives and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland in our work.

We are focused on hiring the very best talent available for NES, and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and aim to ensure everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has a positive recruitment experience – regardless of the outcome.

It’s not essential to be in a Clinical Lead role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning after working in another field. Your experiences elsewhere can bring a fresh perspective to our work.

If you are considering applying and feel it would be helpful to discuss this initially, please contact Kirsty Pate [e-mail], Programme Lead – TRSWS (Scottish Government), or Sandra Ferguson, Associate Director (NES), [e-mail]

Next Steps

Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required.

All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.

Online interviews will take place on 23rd June 2025. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.

For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.

Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: [e-mail]