Clinical Psychologist – Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

Job Description

Applications from newly qualified staff are welcomed.

We are delighted to be able to recruit a suitably qualified psychologists to join Children and Young peoples psychological Services (CYP-PT) within NHS Forth Valley CAMHS. We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologists to work within the Core CAMHS (Tier 3 Mental Health) sub specialty and would also welcome applications from candidates nearing qualification, part time workers and/or staff interested in split posts.

NHS Forth Valley CAMHS is a well established service with a responsive and innovative senior management team. The psychology team is organised into sub specialities with psychological leadership and specialist clinical supervision within each area of expertise.

Therapeutic Modalities

• CBT
• IPT
• FBT
• Systemic Family Therapy
• ABA
• EMDR
• Art Therapy
• ACT

We support children and young people aged from 0 to 18 years and their carers/families and offer a range of highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions, which often includes multi agency work with our partners. We have re designed the psychological provision at all levels of service provision with the aim of placing the needs of children and young people at the centre of the partnerships we establish with families and systems. The post holder will play a key role in offering clinical leadership and in supervising and delivering specialist psychological care in relation to increasing access to psychological interventions locally. There are also good opportunities to get involved in quality improvement.

NHS Forth Valley Psychology staff receive regular clinical and operational supervision, supportive line management, including job planning. As part of job planning, all staff are supported to develop and establish areas of specialist clinical interest and we have a varied in house programme of clinical CPD. We also have very good links with national bodies and close links with training courses and offer placements to trainees from the Doctoral, PIAT and MSc courses.

Qualifications

Candidates must have a Post Graduate Doctoral level (or equivalent) degree in Clinical/Counselling Psychology, be registered with the HCPC and have experience of working with children and young people with complex needs. Experience or training in relation to eating disorders, neuro developmental disorders or trauma would be an advantage.

For informal enquiries contact: Dr Lucie Risk (Consultant Clinical Psychologist CAMHS), or Dr Bronagh Weir (Team Lead North CAMHS) on .

The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at .

As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.

NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.

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.