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The Role
The successful candidate will provide high-quality, efficient, and effective support to the Primary Care Psychology Service including: delivering large group and individual psychological interventions for a range of common mild-moderate mental health presentations; assisting with service evaluation and service development, and providing training to colleagues in the wider primary care mental health network.
Additional Information Specific to the Role
The Primary Care Psychology Service is a new and developing service within NHS Lanarkshire aiming to offer evidence based early interventions accessible throughout the region. A main focus of the service is in the delivery of Stress Control courses in community venues throughout Lanarkshire. Stress Control is a six-session psychoeducation course following a CBT model that has a strong evidence base for reducing low mood, anxiety and improving wellbeing. Courses do not require referral or registration, and can accommodate a high volume of attendees due to the didactic nature of the programme.
The post-holder will be responsible for leading on the delivery of Stress Control courses, supported by a co-facilitator (Assistant Psychologist / Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Nurse). A majority of courses are in the evening, and so the post-holder would be expected to deliver up to two evening courses (6pm-8pm) per week at peak times during the year. This will involve significant travel with equipment, and so use of a car would be desirable.
The post-holder will also contribute to our remote (video call) individual intervention service providing psychological assessment, formulation and brief high intensity interventions for a range of common mental health difficulties. They will also assist in the smooth running of the Primary Care Psychology service more generally, and may be involved in supporting other psychology services through direct clinical work.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
- The post holder must have an honours degree in psychology (eligible for GBR) and a post-graduate Masters level (or equivalent) degree in Psychological Therapy.
- Relevant clinical experience.
- Have knowledge of relevant national and professional guidelines for optimal standards of clinical care.
- Have some knowledge of Psychiatry and other related professions in order to understand complex clinical presentation.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Be aware of the limits of one's competence and expertise and work within those boundaries (particularly in the initial postgraduate year).
- Work in a sensitive manner with respect for diversity in gender, ethnic, culture and philosophical issues with a wide range of individuals
- Commitment to ongoing Continuing Professional Development
- Attend in-house and external courses pertaining to computer training, moving and handling, management of aggression and violence, lone worker guidelines etc.
It would be great if you also have
- Experience in delivering large group interventions.
- Experience in supervising junior staff in any capacity.
- An understanding of the challenges unique to primary care mental health.
- Skills and confidence in presenting to large groups, and communicating complex concepts in a way that is accessible to diverse audiences.
- Car driver with a full, valid UK/EU/EEA drivers licence
Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.
Contract type
- Permanent
- Full time
- 37 hours
Location
This role will be based in Mental Health & Learning Disabilities within Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters - Individual clinics are offered remotely
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Sean Hunter, Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Primary Care Psychology Lead on Sean.Hunter@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk.
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Nicole McMillan, Recruitment Administrator on Nicole.McMillan@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk.
(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
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