Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology

Overview

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.

To work within a multidisciplinary team (or equivalent) providing evidence-based treatments for children and young people and their families. This will involve a mix of individual clinical work and involvement in the provision of group interventions.

To provide psychological therapies to children and young people with a wide range of mental health problems including anxiety and depressive disorders.

To manage own caseload within specialty area using specialist techniques and maintain clinical records.

To work with psychology colleagues, and other child and adolescent mental health professionals to contribute to the provision of child and adolescent mental health services to children and young people and their families.

To contribute to service delivery and to participate in service evaluation within the area as directed.

Fixed term, Full time

Templeton Business Centre

• Provide assessment and treatment recommendations for mild–moderate mental health disorders
• Use a range of child- and family-appropriate assessment tools and procedures
• Hold a specialist caseload of children and young people
• Assess pre-disposing and precipitating factors contributing to presenting problems
• Use psychometric measures, observation, and assessment of emotional, cognitive and behavioural functioning, including self-motivation strategies
• Conduct assessments individually, with carers, and in group settings
• Formulate presenting problems, including aetiology, maintaining factors, and intervention plans
• Seek supervisory consultation for complex cases before intervention
• Deliver evidence-based individual and group interventions aligned with formulation
• Evaluate therapeutic progress across behavioural, cognitive, and emotional domains
• Reflect on and evaluate own clinical practice; attend regular supervision
• Communicate formulations and psychological understanding through reports and verbal feedback to referrers, families, and partner agencies
• Provide training and teaching to professionals, carers, and external agencies
• Contribute to service development through innovative practice and multidisciplinary participation
• Ensure compliance with professional standards, Child Protection Standards, NHS GG&C and Specialist Children’s Services policies
• Keep management informed of service needs and relevant psychological issues
• Undertake research and audit with agreement from supervisor/line manager
• Maintain accurate records and meet reporting requirements
• Collate statistical returns on service delivery
• Meet PDP objectives agreed at appraisal
• Maintain and contribute to CPD within the service and team
• Provide supervision to graduate psychologists when required

• Degree in psychology (eligible for G ) and a post-graduate MSc in Applied Psychology (Healthcare) for children and young people
• Experience of a range of mental health conditions in children and young people and an ability to understand complex clinical presentations
• Experience of working within an MDT
• Experience in a CAMHS setting
• Skills in the use of cognitive-behavioural assessment, intervention and management
• Knowledge of child development
• Knowledge of key policy drivers in relation to mental health of children and young people
• Competence to effectively deliver psycho-educational materials to patients, other health care staff and third sector colleagues
• Competence to prepare psycho-educational materials
• Skills in communicating effectively in written and oral modes, including the capacity to impart clinically sensitive and technical information to a range of recipients
• A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively
• Risk assessment and management…