Overview
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination.
The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our small team of clinicians providing CAMH services to care experienced young people across the North Highland region.
Responsibilities
Direct clinical work with children, young people and their carers.
Indirect clinical work offering consultation, training and support to residential teams, foster carers and professional networks.
Developing complex formulation and providing consultation to professional networks.
Working with the systems and services around the referred person to promote their wellbeing indirectly.
Delivery of therapeutic interventions focused on recovery from trauma.
Work within a trauma-informed and relationally focused framework, with the aim to meet The Promise and support others to do so.
Qualifications and experience
Qualified, experienced Clinical Psychologists, with suitable experience working with complex presentations.
Experience developing complex formulations and providing consultation to professional networks.
Experience delivering therapeutic interventions focused on recovery from trauma.
Experience of working with care-experienced young people (CEYP) and/or young people who have experienced significant adversity is particularly valuable.
Team, service and location
The wider CAMH service in north NHS Highland is a specialist multi-disciplinary team based in Inverness, but providing clinics across a large rural geography.
Based within the CEYP team, this post is commissioned by the Highland Council to promote the psychological wellbeing of young people who are care experienced and to maintain them in placements within the Highland area.
The post is varied and includes direct clinical work with children, young people and their carers, as well as a significant amount of indirect clinical work offering consultation, training and support to residential teams, foster carers and professional networks.
About the work environment
The team works within a trauma-informed and relationally focused framework and hold central to their practice an aim to meet The Promise and support others to do so.
The Highlands offer outdoor opportunities and urban amenities in Inverness.
Enquiries
For informal enquiries please contact Dr Lindsay Chalton, Interim Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist, or Dr Jade Weston, Principal Clinical Psychologist CEYP,, Tel
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