Lead Clinical Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

**PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS FIXED TERM UNTIL 31 March 2024**

To lead the Lothian Psychology for Staff service across NHS Lothian and each HSCP, including the entire care home sector. To work autonomously and to provide psychological services to staff with complex presentations who have been triaged to high intensity psychological treatment. In the capacity of this lead role, to maintain and further develop the evaluation and audit framework for all the psychological and team based interventions carried out, reporting to the Lothian Executive Steering Group.

To take a lead in systems for the assessment, identification, escalation and treatment processes for those staff who have significant 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 provide clinical governance, consultancy and supervision for psychological input provided by others in the staff support team.

To lead on the strategic development of staff support service plans within Lothian, which will be based on the interpretation of Scottish Government guidance and specified standards of service evaluation and audit. To implement the highest standards of record keeping and service evaluation to monitor the impact of the service development.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact:
Lead Clinical Psychologist Dr Linsay Brassington on 0131 451 7445 or

Director of Psychology, Dr Belinda Hacking:



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