Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

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 are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to contribute to both generic CAMHS and the development of a variety of new workstreams.

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.  

Here in Argyll and Bute we are looking for high calibre clinicians, who place emphasis on a good work life balance, who can be creative and responsive and who work well in small teams.  

We are offering the chance to really use all of your skills, with a good mix of clinical work with supervision and consultation responsibilities and service development. We want to grow clinicians specialist interests.  

We also have have very good links with national bodies and close links with training courses and offer placements to trainees from the Doctoral, EPP and MSc courses.

We want people who are committed to the future of our children and young people and who will help us grow this team in a thoughtful way.

 If you want to make a difference, be supported to develop professionally with great CPD opportunities please get in touch wed love to hear from you!

Relocation expenses are available for the right candidates who meet the NHS Highland criteria.

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 problems. Experience or training in relation to eating disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders or trauma would be an advantage.

For informal enquiries contact: Dr Louise Beare Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Email: louise.beare@nhs.scot

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NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.

NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay.  This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff.  This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours.  However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week.  If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.