Clinical Psychologist
- Location:
- Rossie Young Peoples Trust, DD10 9TW
- Salary:
- £28,236 - £29,627 per year
- Contract Type:
- Permanent
- Position Type:
- Part Time
- Hours:
- 14 hours per week
The closing date for completed applications for this post is 9am on Monday 17 April 2023.
Salary: £74,625 - £78,300 (SCP 67 – 69) (pro rata - part time hours)
Hours: 2 days/14 hours per week.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to discuss hybrid working. However, there will be a requirement to work on site both during the initial stages and after confirmation in post. This is to enable you to build relationships and ensure you acquire appropriate knowledge of our multi-disciplinary environment, our young people and organisation.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Specialist Intervention, Health & Wellbeing (SIHW) Team is a specialist psychological, assessment and trauma informed service working directly with our young people who present with a range of complex social, emotional and behavioural challenges and who can pose a risk to themselves and to others. The SIHW Team offers a therapeutic environment to work directly with our young people to provide highly specialist psychological services, assessment, consultation and risk formulations.
The provision of specialist, therapeutic and comprehensive psychological service ensures our young people and others involved in their care and support have access to high quality assessments and interventions which address a range of needs and take account of relevant risk factors and formulations.
As a Clinical Psychologist, you will oversee, enhance and deliver interventions using a range of psychological assessment tools and formulations. You will provide specialist clinical knowledge, support, and guidance to the relevant members of SIHW Team ensuring all psychological interventions are evidenced based.
You will provide supervision to the trainee/assistant psychologists and other multi-disciplinary practitioners in the team. You will provide advice and guidance on psychological care to other professionals, carers and families. As part of a multi-disciplinary organisation, you will actively contribute towards the training and support of staff involved in the delivery of specialist interventions to young people.