Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

NHS, Balfour, Orkney Islands

Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

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NHS, Balfour, Orkney Islands

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 4 days ago, 29 Oct | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full Job Description

This post will cover adults and older adults, aimed at tier 3 &4 populations. The post will be hard work, but really stimulating, especially as it will involve all aspects of delivering a psychology service for adults and older adults. For example, delivering assessments and treatment to a range of patient groups; as well as delivering training to range of multi-disciplinary team colleagues, advising colleagues on clinical governance issues and working closely with NHS Education for Scotland.

This post requires a broad spectrum of clinical skills (including eating disorders) because when working in a remote and rural area, one has fewer options in terms of onward referrals, so it is important to find someone who will strive to find the balance between generalist and specialist roles and will aim to utilise support from mainland colleagues in urban Tier 4 services when necessary.

Can you see yourself in one of these new roles? Please get in touch.

Partnership working with our population, our patients, our staff and teams, and our colleagues in Orkney Islands Council and the third sector is important to NHS Orkney. A number of specialist services rely on Service Level Agreements with other Health Boards and in the case of Education, with Universities, for example we have a very close partnership arrangement with Edinburgh University and the Dundee and Stirling Universities.

For some staff, living in Orkney permanently may not an option and they wish to consider remote working. We can and will work with you to meet your needs. Interested? Why not get in touch?