Job details
- Job reference: 263137
- Salary: Band 8A (£65,125 - £70,303)
- Job closing date: 05/11/2026
- Job Type: Other Therapeutic
- Location: Dudhope House
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 36
- Job posted date: 22/10/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Tayside
- Department: Dundee Adult Psychology/Area Psychological Therapies Service
We are seeking to recruit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to our Adult Mental Health Services in Dundee.
Sessions may be configured across both primary and secondary care dependent on interest and service requirements. There are currently a number of developments within adult mental health which seek to improve how services, including psychological therapies, are accessed by the communities we serve.
The Dundee Adult Psychological Therapies Service is based at Dudhope House, Dundee. This is where clinical work, primarily on a 1:1 basis with some group work, is undertaken. There are also 2 Community Mental Health Teams in Dundee; one covering the west of the city and currently based at Wedderburn House, the other covering the east of the city and based at The Alloway Centre. Both teams have dedicated clinical psychology provision for those with severe and enduring mental illness.
In addition to clinical work it is expected that the successful applicant(s) will have a key role in developing training, supervising of others and helping to deliver care in line with the key recommendations of our mental health strategy review and as set out by the Psychological Therapies and Interventions Specification.
There will be professional links to the Tayside Area Psychological Therapies Service which has a complement of over 150 clinical and applied psychology staff. Day to day management and supervision will be provided by the Lead Clinician/Consultant Clinical Psychologist for the Adult Service in which you are based.
The Department provides a friendly, supportive and stimulating environment with a commitment to training of applied psychologists and advancing research. There are links with the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Stirling. Members of the department contribute to the supervision and training of trainees on the Edinburgh/East and South of Scotland Clinical Psychology Training programme, the Universities of Stirling and Dundee MSc Adult Applied Psychology course and the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh MSc Child Applied Psychology course
Informal enquires considering the above posts may be made to Dr Helen Nicholson-Langley (01382) 346556 helen.nicholson-langley@nhs.scot
Hours of work are: 36 hrs per week (part-time working may be considered)
Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.
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