Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
The Balfour
Band 8b £72,573 – £77,524 including Distant Islands Allowance
Full time 37 hours per week
Permanent
Thank you for your interest in our Principal Clinical/Counselling psychology vacancy based in The Balfour, Rural General Hospital at NHS Orkney. We believe working in a rural hospital can be both professionally and personally tremendously rewarding.
This post will cover adults and older adults, aimed at tier 3 & 4 populations. The post will be hard work, but really stimulating, especially as it will involve all aspects of delivering a psychology service for adults and older adults. Responsibilities include:
1. Delivering assessments and treatment to a range of patient groups.
2. Delivering training to a range of multi-disciplinary team colleagues.
3. Advising colleagues on clinical governance issues.
4. Working closely with NHS Education for Scotland.
This post requires a broad spectrum of clinical skills (including eating disorders) because when working in a remote and rural area, one has fewer options in terms of onward referrals. It is important to find someone who will strive to find the balance between generalist and specialist roles and will aim to utilize support from mainland colleagues in urban Tier 4 services when necessary.
Partnership working with our population, our patients, our staff and teams, and our colleagues in Orkney Islands Council and the third sector is important to NHS Orkney. A number of specialist services rely on Service Level Agreements with other Health Boards and, in the case of Education, with Universities. For example, we have a very close partnership arrangement with Edinburgh University and the Dundee and Stirling Universities.
For some staff, living in Orkney permanently may not be an option and they wish to consider remote working. We can and will work with you to meet your needs. Interested? Why not get in touch?
For more information please contact Suzanne Roos, Consultant Psychologist and Professional Lead of Psychological Therapies by email suzanne.roos@nhs.scot
This post is subject to a PVG Scheme Record check.
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