Principal Clinical Psychologist - #1796536

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in our 24 bedded community custody unit. The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a highly specialist psychological assessment service for the women in the unit. The post holder will be integral to shaping the trauma informed clinical model and providing training and supervision to NHS and SPS staff. The post holder will work alongside the wider peripatetic clinical psychology provision in the three GG&C prisons. The Clinical Psychology Interventions Service in prison healthcare (PHC) operates within the Adult Mental Health Services of NHSGG&C. The service provides psychological assessment and treatment for people living in custody with mental disorder who may present a risk of serious harm to themselves and/or others.

Members of the service lead on or contribute to various aspects of the running of prison healthcare and contribute similarly to the wider psychology network across the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde area, according to their managerial, research or clinical expertise. There are close links with the University of Glasgow Clinical Psychology Training Programme and members of the psychology service contribute to the teaching, support and supervision of trainees. It is essential you have a Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology with current Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist. You should also have significant supervised clinical psychology practice experience in NHS or equivalent by a suitably qualified Clinical Psychologist.

Informal Contact: Ashleigh MacDougall, Principal Clinical Psychologist at [email protected]

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