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Assistant Psychologist Infant Mental Health
Fixed Term contract - 6 Months
The Lothian Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS) is a small multi-disciplinary team supporting parent-infant relationships in the first three years of life, to promote optimal infant mental health. We provide assessment, formulation and a range of evidence based group and one-to-one interventions for infants and their parents / carers. We also provide indirect support through training, consultation and reflective practice to a range of professionals and services working with infants.
We are delighted to be recruiting an Assistant Psychologist who will support the delivery of our therapeutic 121 and group interventions, as well as taking a significant role in service evaluation.
We intend to interview on Tuesday 1st September
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 Pack which includes a job description and person specification. We warmly welcome informal enquiries and questions, which can be made to Dr Fiona Hill, Senior Clinical Psychologist [email protected] or Dr Sarah Baillie, Principal Clinical Psychologist / Team Lead [email protected]
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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.
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
