The Role

Provide a clinically effective high quality and autonomous lead role in the delivery of Addiction Psychology Services in NHS Lanarkshire, and promoting the availability of psychosocial intervention and trauma informed care within wider addiction services.

Additional Information Specific to the Role

NHS Lanarkshire is delighted to invite enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join the Addiction Psychology Service (APS). This is an exciting opportunity to take on a varied role, involving service development, delivering training, working alongside experts through experience and supporting multi-disciplinary colleagues. The direct clinical component of the role is varied and the service prides itself on providing clinicians with opportunities to develop their skills in different modalities, in order to best meet the often complex needs of the people accessing the service.

In addition to providing therapy on a one-to-one basis, APS delivers therapeutic groups, such as Emotional Resources Groups, Compassionate Resilience Groups, and Schema therapy groups. This is a pivotal time to work in addiction services to help health and social care partnerships implement the MAT standards, and help addiction services become more fully trauma informed. APS is also active in delivering teaching across Doctorates in Clinical and Counselling Psychology in Scotland, and contributing to the MSc in Psychological Therapy in Primary Care.

APS is a friendly and innovative team and we have strong links with both wider Psychological Services and the addiction services within Lanarkshire statutory, third sector and flourishing recovery communities. Psychological Services within Lanarkshire work closely together and take great care to support and invest in the development of staff.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

Have a Post Graduate Doctoral level (or equivalent) degree in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and be a Registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council in the UK.

Complete further courses of additional learning as relevant to the clinical skills required for the post and identified as significant in the Personal Development Plan, and have accredited training in the supervision of Post Graduate clinical trainees.

Have knowledge of NHSL Health Board's Policies and Procedures, and national and professional guidelines for optimal standards of clinical care e.g. child protection guidelines.

Have knowledge of psychiatry and other related professions in order to understand complex clinical presentations.

Work in a sensitive manner with respect to diversity and gender, ethnic, culture and philosophical issues with a wide range of individuals and organisations.

Be aware of the limits of one's competence and expertise.

Maintain and update knowledge of legislation and local policies and issues in relation to Adult Mental Health generally.

Attend in-house and external mandatory training courses (e.g.) computer training, Moving and Handling, Management of Aggression and Violence, etc.

Be aware of the need to deploy valuable Health Service resources in an effective and rational manner according to contemporary evidence-based practice.

Possess a full driving licence

It would be great if you also have

Membership of/affiliation to the British Psychological Society and Division of Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Post qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of Psychological practice eg CBT; CAT

Additional training in specific therapies related to addictive behaviours

Experience in delivering psychological therapies and therapeutic activities for individuals with a range of psychological difficulties and clinical severity

Familiar with brief solution focused and motivational enhancement therapies and additional modalities relevant to working with people who have experienced trauma and addiction

Experience of working with individuals with substance misuse problems

Experience of representing Psychology with the context of multi-disciplinary care

Experience of teaching, training and/of professional and clinical supervision of both Psychology and other Health Care professionals

Experience of working with patients who have blood borne viruses

Ability to combine individual, developmental and systemic assessment and intervention frameworks

Knowledge of local policies on alcohol and drugs services

Knowledge of range of theoretical approaches and techniques in working with individuals, groups and wider systems and ability to apply these

Skilled in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management

Excellent communication, consultation and negotiation skills

Ability to work cooperatively as member of multi professional multi-agency service

Contract type

Permanent

Part Time

25.9 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Coathill Hospital

The working pattern for this role Mon-Fri; 9:00-5:00.

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Michelle Cook, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on Michelle.Cook@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshires benefits include:

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website

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