Clinical Psychologist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Burnley; In loco; GBP 49.000 - 57.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in Burnley is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join the Complex Community Care Teams within the CYPMH Service-East, Burnley General Hospital.

You will deliver high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for children and young people up to 18, work within MDTs, travel to different clinical locations, and contribute to service development.

Competenze

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology with BPS accreditation.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across care settings.
• Experience with diverse patient groups across life span and settings.

Mansioni

• Provide high-quality specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
• Collaborate with MDT colleagues and provide consultancy on psychological interventions.
• Deliver evidence-based psychological care to children and young people up to age 18.
• Travel and work from various clinical locations within East Lancashire.

Conoscenze

Interpersonal skills

Formazione

Doctoral training in clinical psychology

Descrizione del lavoro

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 12 November 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join one of the Complex Community Care Teams based at Children and Young People's Mental Health (CYPMH) Service- East, Burnley General Hospital. The Complex Community Care Teams are innovative and dynamic multidisciplinary CAMHS teams, that provide essential mental health support to enhance the social and psychological development of young people who are experiencing complex mental health difficulties.

The multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) are made up of Consultant Child Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and Mental Health Practitioners who have skills in a range of therapeutic modalities/specialisms, including but not limited to CBT, Family Therapy, SFP, EMDR, art psychotherapy, counselling and non-medical prescribing. The successful candidate will also join a large network of clinical psychologists as part of the Bay Network in LSCFT.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking individual, who has excellent relational and interpersonal skills and a genuine commitment to working with children, young people and families.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work in one of the Complex Community Care Teams, delivering the highest quality, evidence-based clinical care and treatment for children, young people and their families. The post holder will work closely with other team members from a variety of professional and therapeutic backgrounds and will provide a psychological perspective to cases. The successful candidate will manage a caseload of complex young people with a variety of mental health disorders up to the age of 18. The post holder will work across East Lancashire and will be expected to travel and work from various clinical locations as required. The role will involve but is not limited to:

• Providing high-quality specialist psychological assessment, formulation, evidence-based psychological therapy and evaluation, including ROMS.
• Offering advice and consultation to non-psychological colleagues and to other non-professional carers, where psychological intervention is a key aspect of treatment programmes.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development within the area served by the service.

About us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Job responsibilities

For more information about this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Education

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

£49,387 to £56,515 a yearPer Annum Pro Rata