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Who we are:
NHS Ayrshire and Arran is one of 14 territorial NHS Boards within NHS Scotland.
Our purpose:
Working together to achieve the healthiest life possible for everyone in Ayrshire and Arran.
Our values:
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This post is professionally aligned to the Clinical Health Psychology Service which consists of a number of Clinical Psychologists, CAAPs and assistant psychologists working in a number of medical specialty teams. You will sit clinically within the Pan-Ayrshire Cardiac Service and Long Covid Rehabilitation Team. Your role will be to provide a specialised clinical psychology service to people affected by Long Covid and cardiac conditions. You will have operational day to day and professional line management by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, as an employee of the NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s Psychological Service.
What you will do:
Principal Psychologists are required:
- To provide a highly specialised clinical psychology service to users of the Specialty Service, offering specialist advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, supporting and developing teaching packages and pathways, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To provide, develop and manage highly specialist psychological assessment to inform consultation, diagnosis and monitoring and to provide highly specialist psychological interventions and treatments for people with psychological disorder and general medical conditions.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- To provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees undertaking Doctoral training and to less experienced psychologists, counsellors, nurse therapists, graduate assistants or other professionals.
- To fulfil this job purpose by utilising advances theoretical and practical knowledge acquired through Doctoral degree and supplemented by further specialist training over a period of 18 to 24 months and which will be at least equivalent and is likely to be academically superior to (given that further clinical training requires the doctoral qualification) diploma level.
- The purpose of this job is to provide direct care and treatment to the most complex patients and to extend the capacity of the whole multidisciplinary team though supervision, training and consultancy, including the supervision of Doctoral trainees.
For further information on the role please click the link below to view the job description
Knowledge, training and/or experience required to do the job:
You are required to be proficient in, have knowledge of, or undertake training in the following:-
Demonstrates advanced theoretical and practical knowledge as a clinical or counselling psychologist which requires to be obtained through:-
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Further specialist post-doctoral training, supervision, research and study across a range of areas, including advanced clinical skills over a minimum of eighteen months which will be at least equivalent, and is likely to be academically superior to diploma level.
- It is a requirement of these posts to provide clinical placements and supervision to Trainee clinical psychologists undertaking a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. To enable you to do so they must have completed accredited university-based training in supervision, eligibility for which requires post-doctoral clinical experience. Normally undertaken over an 18 month period or its equivalent if part-time.
- Requires experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings. This includes skill in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Skills as a Senior Clinician to undertake clinical leadership roles and tasks within multidisciplinary and multi-agency contexts
- Professional approval for clinical supervisor status
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical/counselling psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Previous experience working in medical settings and/or working with cardiac, post-viral and long term conditions would be preferred but we would welcome discussions about relevant transferrable experiences.
For further information on the requirements for the role please click the link below to view the person specification
Hours:
37.5 Hours
Shifts Pattern:
The current post is full time Band 8a (10 sessions a week), however a variation in contracted hours would be considered (minimum 8 sessions per week).
An excellent relocation package of up to £12,000 is available depending on eligibility.
Driving Licence/Car Ownership:
Car licence is essential to this role.
If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Dr. Lesley Allan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Health Psychology Service on 01294 323565 or lesley.allan@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
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