An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Clinical Psychologist based at NSPCC/Govan. Funded by NSPCC, the role will be hosted by NHS Ayrshire & Arran, offering core support and dual accountability streams. What you will do: This is an opportunity for a Principal Clinical Psychologist to contribute to an innovative clinical service dedicated to improving the mental health of infants experiencing adversity. The Glasgow Infant and Family and Infant Parent Support Team (GIFT/IPS) at NSPCC is an established multidisciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Clinical Psychologists, a Psychiatrist and Family Engagement and Liaison Workers. Some team members are NSPCC employees, some are seconded from the NHS. Funded by NSPCC, the role will be hosted by NHS Ayrshire & Arran, offering core support and dual accountability streams. Along with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and the multi-disciplinary team, this role will support the delivery of evidenced based relationship-focused assessments and interventions to infants and families. You will provide psychological advice, consultancy, training and supervision to develop the psychological skills of other health and non-health professionals. The role requires skills in intensive relationship-based assessment and individualized intervention, using a number of relationship-based therapies, for which training is offered. An understanding of the systems in which families are living is important. With GIFT, psychological support to promote infant mental health is often offered to foster or kinship parents. Close liaison with Social Work colleagues, the Children's Hearing System and Adult Services is required. IPS draws on these same IMH approaches, working with families with children in parental care. IPS has been developed alongside parents with lived experience and is poverty and neurodiversity informed. Both services are being evaluated, and the team has close links with the Glasgow University Child Academic Team, and with policy colleagues at NSPCC., We would welcome interest in this post from recently qualified Clinical Psychologists, as well as final year Trainees on a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme.,
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Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
* Honours degree in Psychology (minimum upper 2^nd class).
* Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist. Trainee Clinical Psychologists would not be expected to be HCPC registered at the point of applying for the post, but would need to have attained registration before they would be eligible to commence the post.
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The current post is full time Band 8A (10 sessions a week). Variation in the contracted hours will be considered. Driving Licence/Car Ownership: A car licence/car ownership is essential to this role.