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NHS Lothian 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 Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We are delighted to invite applications for a range of opportunities within our AMH psychological therapies services across NHS Lothian. Psychology services in Lothian are expanding and we are looking for enthusiastic and committed psychologists and psychological therapists.
As part of this, we are seeking individuals to work within our Edinburgh City and West Lothian Psychological Therapies Services, with 18 month fixed term opportunities for up to 9.0 wte Band 7s, as follows:
7.0wte – Edinburgh City (various locations, core base Royal Edinburgh Hospital) – PTS and Groups Services
2.0wte – West Lothian Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) –base: St John’s Hospital, Livingston
You will have a varied individual clinical caseload across the spectrum of psychological and mental health difficulties and be supported via individual and group supervision and the Senior Psychologists in each service. We are planning an exciting expansion of the psychological therapies core groups programme in each of these areas and it will be expected that part of each job plan could be committed to helping deliver and facilitate this. This currently includes our Survive & Thrive, Compassion Focused Therapy and Change UP groups. Although we invite all levels of experience, these posts would be an excellent introduction for newly qualified applicants.
We would request if you have a preferred location to state this on your application. However, Psychology is able to support flexible, remote working for both clinical and administrative work so that location can be discussed. We have also enhanced our administration teams so that staff can expect robust administrative support in their roles.
The department is supported by Royal Edinburgh Associated Services (REAS), there are reporting lines to the Director of Royal Edinburgh Associated Services (REAS) as well as to the Executive Nurse Director. All posts are managed within Psychology. There are a wide range of services based across each of the 4 HSCP’s in Lothian where psychologists and psychological therapists work within multi-disciplinary teams. The psychology service is led by the Director of Psychology with a team of senior staff. We are committed to supporting and developing staff with CPD and time for research, quality improvement and other programmes that enhance the quality of care provided.
Please review the job description and person specification for further details and note that you will be required to hold a relevant postgraduate qualification on appointment (Doctorate or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Masters in Applied Psychology in Primary Care or a PG Diploma/Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) as a minimum requirement, conferring the relevant registration (eg., HCPC or other Professional Body inc e.g, BABCP).
We will be interviewing for all posts at the end of August.
If you would like to know more about the posts, please do not hesitate to contact: Dr Alyson Falconer, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Head of Adult 0131 537 6904 or Dr Jenny Strachan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist 01506 523615 (for West Lothian queries).