217415 Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (KA)

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Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - Band 8A

Location: Mental Health Rehabilitation Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Category: Scientific/ Professional

Contract: Temporary for one year

Job type: Part-time

Job reference:

Grade: Band 8A

Salary £62,861-£67,665

Hours: 18.5

Description: The post-holder will be expected to provide a highly specialist resource for the provision of psychological assessment and therapy with responsibility for the specialism of mental health rehabilitation. The psychiatric rehabilitation service works with individuals who experience multiple disadvantages in all aspects of their lives. The individuals frequently have treatment resistant illnesses, have had adverse early life experiences and have been unable to engage successfully with mainstream health and social services. The post-holder will ensure the provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to patients within this setting (and this may include both in-patients, and out-patients living within various levels of supported accommodation, and supported with the Community Rehabilitation Team). The role also involves providing specialist support and consultation to other members of the multidisciplinary, multi-agency team. The post-holder may also provide teaching, supervision, consultancy and research expertise to postgraduate psychology trainees and other mental health professionals. It is a requirement to work autonomously within professional, service and locality guidelines, and to contribute to systematic governance of psychological practice within the service. Finally, the post-holder will be expected to utilise high level research skills for audit, policy and service development as a major requirement of the job. For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact .

We are looking for an inspirational leader who is caring, compassionate and motivated to join our strong, empowered and highly skilled nursing family.

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.

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.

Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.

Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes .

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.