Assistant Psychologist (AJM) inMidlothian inMidlothian PUBLISHED SAT 18 JAN 2025

Assistant Psychologist

Clinical Psychology (Learning Disabilities Service)

Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Please note: Part-time the salary will be pro-rata.

• 24.05 hours per week (0.65 WTE), Fixed term for 12 months
  
  

NHS Lothian has a vacancy in the Learning Disabilities Service for an Assistant Psychologist post.

The Learning Disabilities Psychology Service provides comprehensive psychological assessment and therapies to adults with learning disabilities in the City of Edinburgh, East, Mid and West Lothian. There may be a requirement to work flexibly across Lothian to meet service demands.

As an assistant psychologist you will play a key role in the team by supporting qualified psychologists to provide a service to people with learning disabilities in Lothian. This may require working in hospitals, clients’ homes, residential services, or day centres. A large part of your clinical work will entail administering neuropsychological tests as part of our assessment to ascertain whether patients have a learning disability, and as part of our dementia pathway. There will also be opportunities to deliver structured and manualised psychological assessments and interventions. You will work under close supervision of the qualified psychologist, and will support them with other key tasks such as collating information for screening assessments and maintaining databases used in our clinical pathways

Key Requirements

See job description. You will be a psychology graduate with a minimum of a 2:1 honours degree conferring eligibility for graduate registration with the British Psychological Society. Please use your application form to demonstrate how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification.

We welcome prospective applicants contacting us for a discussion about the role and to find out more about our team.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact Dr Reed Cappleman Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Professional Lead for Learning Disabilities Psychology .

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

• Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**
  
  

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board.