Job reference: 225033
Salary: Locum Consultant (£111,430 - £148,064)
Job closing date: 05/09/2025
Job Type: Medical and Dental
Location: Perth Royal Infirmary
Employment type: Locum
Hours Per Week: 20
Job posted date: 22/08/2025
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Tayside
Department: Psychotherapy

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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We have an exciting opportunity available in one of the UK’s most up and coming and rapidly developing regions.

NHS Tayside is looking to recruit to a part time Locum Consultant Medical Psychotherapy post pending a substantive appointment which is advertised concurrently. The post will initially be for 3 months. This post represents an excellent opportunity to strike the perfect work / home life balance for an enthusiastic and committed consultant psychotherapist.

This post has been made possible through existing funding following retiral from the Multidisciplinary Adult Psychotherapy Service.

Mental health services across NHS Tayside are undergoing a rapid and intensive period of service improvement and change, developing new models of care providing modernised first-class services to the population of Tayside. We are committed to supporting and developing our medical workforce to ensure a lifelong fulfilling career pathway for all consultants..

NHS Tayside serves a population of just under 420,000 and includes the Health and Social Care

Applicants should have full GMC registration and a licence to practise and be on the specialist register or be within 6 months of the anticipated award of a CCT or CESR (CP) at the time of interview.

Informal enquiries can be made to either:


Dr Michelle Ramage, Clinical Lead in Psychotherapy, Alloway Centre, Dundee, tel no: 01382 423052 or email michelle.ramage@nhs.scot

Dr Peter Le Fevre, Operational Medical Director, tel no: 01738 562414 or email peter.lefevre@nhs,scot



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