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Salary: Band 8A (£65,125 - £70,303)
Job closing date: 24/11/2026
Job Type: Other Therapeutic
Location: Ninewells Hospital
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 36
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Tayside
Department: Maternity and Neonatal Psychology

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our dynamic Maternity & Neonatal Psychology team.

The Maternity & Neonatal Psychology team (MNP) provide assessment, treatment and psychological care to women, birthing people and families across maternity (antenatal and postnatal) and neonatal specialities across the whole of NHS Tayside. The team serve a population of approximately 3500 births per year. MNP are centrally located within Ninewells Hospital (with satellite clinics across Tayside) and have close working links with wider maternity and neonatal services. The team (3.0 wte) is comprised of Applied Psychologists and the postholder will also work collaboratively with other professionals – including maternity and neonatal staff, specialist bereavement counsellors and perinatal/infant mental health teams. The postholder will be required to deliver highly specialist psychological assessments and therapy, and offer advice, training and consultation on the psychological aspects of maternity & neonatal care. They will also deliver clinical supervision, consultation and have a collaborative role across the range of services involved in continuity of psychological care.

There will be professional links to the Tayside Area Psychological Therapies service which has a complement of around 150 clinical and applied psychology staff. 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 Emma Webber – emma.webber@nhs.scot

Hours of work are: 36 hours.

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

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