Please note this post may close early due to high numbers of applications.
We have a vacancy for a Psychology Assistant to join two Fife-wide Adult Mental Health Teams: The Digital Therapy Team (0.5wte) and the Psychology Enhanced Engagement Team (PEET) (0.5wte).
Digital Therapies Team
The Digital Therapies Team (DTT) provide support to service users and clinical services in delivering digital psychological therapies. This includes supporting people to engage in Silvercloud programmes through text-based messaging support, promotion of self-referral digital therapies such as Sleepio and Daylight and encouraging referral to commissioned services such as the Mindler text-based therapy service.
The DTT is a supportive team including two Clinical Psychology staff, one Administrative staff member, and one Business Management staff member. The DTT places strong emphasis on supportive and collaborative team working, as well as digital skills and expertise. The main base for this post is Lynebank Hospital, Dunfermline, with travel across the Fife region being required.
You will work closely with a Clinical Psychologist and wider DTT to provide digital therapies to patients with mild-moderate mental health difficulties, and to support the team in activities linked to the implementation, promotion and evaluation of digital therapies in Fife. There will be opportunities to support service design and upskilling as part of a national commitment to ensuring appropriate and effective usage of digital psychological therapies. You will receive regular supervision and opportunities to conduct service evaluation and research, as well as provide training and contribute to service development.
Psychology Enhanced Engagement Team
PEET helps people with mild to moderate emotional needs / common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, who are willing to adopt a self-help approach or engage with a brief cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) informed intervention.
The post involves providing evidence-based interventions for people presenting with common mental health problems, using a range of resources, such as self-help materials, computerised CBT (cCBT) or apps. Following referral or self-referral, we see people as quickly as possible, providing early intervention or signposting to other community based resources/agencies that are likely to help their recovery. We support people to access low intensity psychological interventions, 3rd Sector agencies, and / or other helpful resources. We also offer therapist assistance with cCBT (such as the SilverCloud modules), and other online resources (for example CCI, which provides self-help modules and workbooks for common mental health problems).
You will participate in ongoing audit and evaluation of the service. You will work with qualified clinicians to support the delivery of group psychoeducational interventions, such as Step on Stress. You will receive regular clinical supervision from a clinical associate psychologist or clinical psychologist, as well as regular management supervision.
You may also have a role in assisting one of our three locality-based AMH Psychology teams with activities such as file reviews, group audit and evaluation.
This is an opportunity to join a large area-wide Psychology Service that includes all the major clinical specialties. The Service is friendly, research-active and maintains a vigorous continuous professional development programme. It has well-established links with the Universities of Edinburgh, Stirling and Dundee and provides placements for Doctorate in Clinical Psychology trainees and trainees doing a range of clinically-based Masters programmes.
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Craig Wilson, Principal Clinical Psychologist with the Digital Therapies Team: [email protected]
As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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