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NHS Borders is delighted to invite applications for a Principal Clinical Psychologist for Children and Young Peoples Psychology based in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Band 8B, 0.8 WTE / permanent).
We are looking for an experienced colleague with enthusiasm for supervision, training, multiagency collaboration, service development, quality improvement and clinical work to firmly commit to the Borders service and join us as a core team member for the next part of their career.
This post is an important position which helps anchor the Psychology team, based in our friendly multidisciplinary integrated CAMHS service (CAMHS, ND & CYP ID) but also serving wider national Psychology agendas. Jobplans here tend to be multifaceted in order for us to cover our service remit with a small number of staff and as befitting our small health board and rural locality.
We provide support for Tier 2 community partners, neurodevelopmental assessments and interventions, CAMHS ID/LD, Tier 3 multidisciplinary and psychological interventions for mental health difficulties, and Tier 4 intensive community treatment. We are innovating our service model and have numerous strands of service development and multiagency collaboration in progress.
This post is managed by the Lead for Children and Young Peoples Psychology and will fit alongside another part-time 8B colleague who together support and develop the provision of psychology to children, young people and their families across the Scottish Borders. Our posts are integrated into a multidisciplinary CAMHS service.
The post also has a remit to directly deliver assessment and interventions commensurate with experience at this professional level. Special interests, set within an enthusiasm for broad integrative practice would be highly valued. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist with a number of years clinical practice in general CAMHS, under 18s learning disability or CAMHS clinical subspecialities and preferably with experience of service development or quality improvement.
Applicants must have a professionally recognised doctoral training in Clinical Psychology, be currently registered with HCPC, be able to work in the UK immediately, and be eligible for a PVG for this age group and adults.
This role will require robust clinical competencies in evidence based interventions for mental health difficulties, and/or advanced skills around neurodevelopmental differences. Over time, the postholder will take on delegated responsibility for areas of clinical process, supervision, governance or service developments linked to national drivers. Continued professional development, mentoring for career progression, and options for bespoke multi-speciality jobplans are features of our Psychology Directorates culture.
The CAMHS service includes Psychiatrists, CPNs, Specialist nurses, Healthcare Support Workers, a Speech and Language Therapist, sessional Occupational Therapists and an excellent Administrative team. We have a multidisciplinary leadership team management model, a strong staffing position within the Psychology team and solid staffing across Nursing and Psychiatry.
We provide core and specialist placements for Trainee CAAPs and Clinical Psychologists on the East of Scotland courses.
Our base is the Andrew Lang Unit, Selkirk and we also use Borders General Hospital and many locality venues across the Borders and alongside provision of NearMe (video) clinics. Use of a car is almost essential to deliver a service in our rural locality.
Whilst being a beautiful rural area, the Borders is still easily commutable from south and south eastern Scotland and north eastern England. Psychology jobplans currently support some working from home. Relocation expenses are available for eligible applicants moving into the immediate area.
If you wish to work more than the advertised 0.8 WTE, or across wider specialities, please call to discuss potential options.
Informal enquires and pre-application discussions are warmly encouraged.