258705 (AP) Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology

Job Description

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.

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To work within a multidisciplinary Psychological Therapies team (or equivalent) providing evidence-based treatments for individuals with mild to severe psychological disorders. This will involve a mix of individual clinical work and involvement in the provision of group interventions.

To provide psychological therapies to adults with a wide range of mental health problems including anxiety and depressive disorders within a group setting.

To manage own caseload within specialty area using specialist techniques and maintain clinical related records.

To work with psychology colleagues, and other mental health professionals to provide a psychology service to patients.

To contribute to service delivery and to participate in service evaluation within the area as directed.

Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro-rata.

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To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.