Career Talk with Dr Neil Millar (Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director - NHS Education for Scotland) and Síofra Bradley (3rd Year Trainee)

*** Limited places available *** Any interested student is welcome to attend this event in the Old Library (School of Psychology and Neuroscience building) in St Mary's Quad from 4:00-5:00pm on Tuesday 7th March. Dr Millar has been employed full-time by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) as the Clinical Practice Director for the Programme since 2012. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate degree (1992) and a one-year research MPhil (1994) at the University of Cambridge. His clinical training was at the University of East Anglia programme and he qualified in 1999 before working full-time in Adult Mental Health in West Lothian. He joined the Clinical Tutor team in July 2005 working part-time as Clinical Tutor and then Senior Clinical Tutor alongside continuing to work in his clinical role until 2012. As Clinical Practice Director, he is the line manager for the Clinical Tutor Team which is responsible for the clinical placement elements of training. This includes determining the competences that trainees need to develop on placements; assessing whether trainees are developing these at the required stages of training; and approving placements and training supervisors to ensure that trainees have sufficient learning opportunities and high quality supervision on their placements. He also leads on Selection for the Programme and am committed to increasing the diversity of our training cohorts and to developing an inclusive training environment for all trainees. Dr Millar is also a member of the BPS Committee on Training in Clinical Psychology.