Clinical Psychologist in Edinburgh

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 delighted to invite applications for this opportunity to work within the Edinburgh Psychological Therapies Service.  The team is expanding and we are looking for enthusiastic and committed Psychologists to support the further development of Psychological services.

You will have a varied individual clinical caseload across the spectrum of psychological and mental health difficulties and be supported via individual and group supervision by the Senior Psychologists in each service. You will be also be providing supervision to a number of staff within the service. Eligibility to supervise trainees/newly qualified practitioners is desirable but not essential. As the service expands, there is an ongoing need to support work around reducing wait times, and you will have a key role in this. However in this context there is also an increased opportunity for training and development with a whole service cpd plan, as well as involvement in service developments driven by strategic change. These include the growth of the group programme and development of treatment pathways for a population with complex needs.

In order to support a young and developing service, management are committed to investing in relevant training and career development opportunities. With allocated funding for training and an active Psychological Therapies Training Coordinator, there is ample opportunity to support new and existing staff develop their skills. We are also keen to promote the development of areas of special interest and team champions in a number of areas.

This role forms part of an expanding Psychological Therapies team in Edinburgh, and you will have good support links with Senior Psychologists within the service.  There are also a wide range of mental health services within the Edinburgh HSCP with which the Psychological Therapies Service have strong links.

The department is supported by Royal Edinburgh Associated Services (REAS), and there are reporting lines to the Services Director of Royal Edinburgh Associated Services (REAS), however all posts are managed within Psychological Therapies.  This is led by the Director of Psychology with a team of senior staff who are committed to supporting and developing staff alongside quality improvement and other programmes that enhance the quality of care provided.

The main base for these posts is the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside, Edinburgh. However Psychological Therapies Teams are currently supporting hybrid working for both clinical and administrative work so flexibility of working location can be discussed at interview.

*We are also in offering split-posts where these become available. Currently we have vacancies for B8a positions with Veteran’s First Point and fixed-term posts in the Easting Disorder team. If you would like to take the opportunity to work in more than one service, we would be happy to consider this. 

NHS Lothian is committed to fair and equitable conditions of employment. As an organisation it recognises that employees may require to change their place of residence as a result of taking up a post and so will ensure that where this is the case employees are reimbursed appropriately and relocation expenses will be considered for this post, further details are available on request.

Please review the job description and person specification for further details and note that you will be required to hold a relevant postgraduate qualification on appointment (Doctorate or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology) as a minimum requirement and are eligible for HCPC registration.

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. 

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If you would like to know more about the posts, please do not hesitate to contact:

Dr Alyson Falconer, Head of Adult Mental Health or Dr Norma Martin, Consultant Psychologist, Lead for Edinburgh PTS: 0131 537 6904.