134465 - Clinical/counselling Psychologist - Dm

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist required to support the diagnostic assessments of neurodevelopmental conditions and provide the required therapeutic interventions required.

To provide a high quality clinical psychology service to children, young people and their families within The Neurodevelopmental Service, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Department’s policies and procedures.

This includes:

- Assess and diagnose children with neurodevelopmental needs within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Provision of psychological and cognitive assessment as required
- Advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers
- Supervision of trainee clinical psychologists while on generic or specialist NDS placement
- Teaching of clinical psychology trainees in agreement with Professional Lead for CAMHS and Doctoral/MSc training programmes
- Teaching principles of psychological theory and therapy to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers
- Provision of teaching and supervision to assistant psychologists and possibly other mental health clinicians
- Supervision of trainee research projects where necessary
- Application of research skills to guide and develop evidence based clinical practice, service development, service evaluation and clinical audit

You will have a First Class Honours or Upper Second Class degree in Psychology that provides eligibility for graduate basis for registration with British Psychological Society and an accredited postgraduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology to meet the requirements for eligibility to register as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and as a member of the Health and Care Professions Council. Once registered as a member of the HCPC, the post holder should maintain registration. These qualifications confer an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of theoretical models and working practices.

You also require to have significant post qualification experience of working with children and young people with psychological problems and their families coupled with training in and experience of, supervising doctoral Clinical Psychology trainees and trainee Clinical Associates in Applied Psychology and ongoing professional development activities as required to continue practising as a Clinical Psychologist, including clinical supervision and further specialist courses and training.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’