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Clinical Psychology – (Learning Disabilities Specialist Inpatient Services). Based at The Islay Centre, Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Contract: Permanent. Job type: Part Time. Grade: Band 8B. Hours: 21.09 (0.57 WTE). Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro‑rata.

You will play a key clinical leadership role in our specialist learning disability inpatient services at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Your clinical input will focus on the Islay Centre, our specialist service for people with learning disabilities who present with significantly distressed behaviours that cannot be safely managed in the community. You will provide direct assessment, formulation and intervention around complex casework requiring a multi‑disciplinary approach, and provide psychological consultation to the MDT. You will also work closely with colleagues in other leadership roles to embed high quality psychological care across our inpatient learning disability services, with a particular focus on implementation of Positive Behaviour Support and trauma‑informed care. This is a newly created post, in recognition of the key clinical leadership role that psychology plays within the inpatient learning disability service.

You will possess demonstrable passion for providing excellent psychological services to people with learning disabilities and those who support them. As the post involves providing supervision and leadership to qualified psychologists, multi‑disciplinary colleagues, and pre‑qualified team members, it is essential you are skilled and confident in addressing the needs of people with learning disabilities who present with significant behaviours of distress and you will possess substantial post‑qualification experience of working with this group. You will also possess a demonstrable aptitude for systemic, multi‑disciplinary working.

Potential applicants are encouraged to contact us for an informal conversation to find out more about the service. For informal enquiries please contact Dr Reed Cappleman, Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Professional Lead for Learning Disabilities. Email: reed.cappleman@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk Tel: 0131 537 6270. For More Information, Please Contact Dr Reed Cappleman. Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Professional Lead for Learning Disabilities. 0131 537 6270. 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. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy. 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.