253057 Clinical Psychologist – Child and Adolescent Psychology
About the role
We would like to invite applications from enthusiastic Clinical Psychologists who are keen to work with children and young people who require significant support to maximize their mental health outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Provision of psychological work into Child and Adolescent Psychological Services including multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working to improve outcomes for this population
- Assessing and formulating children and young people's needs and delivering responsive, psychological interventions at individual and systemic levels
- Supervising psychological therapy and non-psychology staff
- Planning, facilitating and evaluating service and policy developments within the service
- Providing training, consultation, supervision and group work with multi-agency partners as required
Requirements
The successful applicant will be soon to be or newly qualified Clinical Psychologists.
Qualifications
The department welcomes applications from soon to be or newly qualified Clinical Psychologists.
Skills
The department has strong links with Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling Universities and takes trainees from both Clinical Psychology and Masters courses.
Benefits
Dumfries and Galloway is a beautiful area offering spectacular countryside and outdoor activities across a large geographical area.
Dumfries is linked by rail to Glasgow (2 hours) and via Lockerbie to Edinburgh (1 hour) and Glasgow (1 hour), is 40 minutes drive from Carlisle and 1.5hr drive from Glasgow.
There are a number of staff who commute and we support hybrid working arrangements and car shares where possible.
Pay
The post has dedicated CPD and supervision time and training opportunities are available.
Flexible working arrangements will be considered.