195772 - Consultant Clinical - Counselling Psychologist

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work with V1P Lanarkshire on a twelve month fixed term basis.   The postholder will offer leadership/management cover for the service.     

V1P Lanarkshire is a specialist service for military Veterans and is hosted within NHS Lanarkshire.  Service provision includes individualised packages of care to address social, welfare, and mental health needs.  The service is part of 6 Regional bases within the V1P network and adheres to this model, whilst adapting this locally to best fit a Lanarkshire context.  The team comprises of a mix of Psychological Therapy Staff, Peer Support Workers and a Service Administrator.  

The service is a member of the Quality Network for Veterans Mental Health Services (QNVMHS), Royal College of Psychiatrists having formally being awarded accreditation in September 2023.  This post holder will take a key role in overseeing and implementing an action plan for ongoing quality improvement and service development based on the feedback and recommendations of the review.  There are considerable opportunities for local service development and quality improvement, and contribution at a National Level.      

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring 

To be eligible for Registration as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist as per the requirements laid down by the British Psychological Society (BPS).  That is,

EITHER

hold a post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, which includes academic, research and clinical components

OR

be granted statement of equivalence by the BPS with respect to qualifications gained overseas

OR

meet the requirements by having attained chartered status via the grandfathering route.

Experience in the management or co-ordination of personnel delivering clinical services

Specific courses in the theory and practice of management and leadership.

Experience in policy design and implementation, and service planning at both the local and national level.

Post qualification training in specialised psychological therapies

Broad understanding of all relevant professional issues

Classification and epidemiological issues, including major classification systems the speciality detailed in the role profile (AAMR, DSM-IV, ICD-I0) and basic knowledge of the classification of other mental disorders.

Psychopathology in general, and of how psychiatric disorders manifest in individuals attending the service.

Relevant professional papers such as BPS to the service user group the post relates to.

Lifespan development issues, including: theories of adult development, individual and family life cycle issues.

Relevant biological and neurological issues.

The broader context of service delivery, including the history of, and ideologies surrounding services for people with a (including normalisation, social role valorisation, the political economy, human rights, consumerism and advocacy and quality of life models).

Social and cultural issues such as gender and ethnicity and their particular impact on service users.

Relevant legislation including: the Mental Health (Scotland) Act and the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act. 

Issues most frequently addressed by psychologists, including: mental health problems, behavioural difficulties, trauma, distressed behaviours, adjustment disorders, bereavement, abuse, life problems, and skills development.

The major assessment techniques used with holder people and how to address varying levels of impairment, and standard assessment procedures and how these may require modification when used with a person attending the service.

Intervention approaches which include non-aversive, behavioural, cognitive, cognitive-behavioural, ACT, Schema, IPT, EMDR, humanistic, constructional and systemic, and how standard approaches might need to be modified when used with certain service user groups.

The use of descriptive, inferential, univariate and multivariate statistics, the principles of standardised test construction, the application of descriptive statistics (including measures of central tendency and dispersion), inferential statistics (including standard error of measurement, and the statistical significance of difference scores) to test interpretation and validation constructs (including reliability and validity).

Service and policy contexts, including: Government policies; the National Review; current patterns of service provision for the service user group; local variations in service provision for service users.  Extent of knowledge of social policy will vary according to the psychologists grade and experience.

It would be great if you also have

Post Qualification training/CPD in Leadership

Experience in Leadership role within patient / client group setting

Post qualification experience of working with Veterans

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 12 months.

Part Time

25.9 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post. 

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Houldsworth Centre, Wishaw

The working pattern for this role Mon-Fri; 9:00-5:00.

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Joanne Waine, Head of Psychological Specialties on Joanne.Waine@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk 

(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshires benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

• Occupational health services

• Employee counselling services

• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.