Clinical Psychologist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist to join our busy Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service in Fylde and Wyre. The post focuses on psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with children and young people, with opportunities for supervision and research involvement.

You will contribute to service development, training and consultations, working within professional guidelines and governance.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including psychopathology, psychometrics and neuropsychology, and multiple therapies.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methods and data analysis.
• Knowledge of child protection policies and clinical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality specialist clinical psychology services for children and young people.
• Offer advice, consultation and supervision to psychology and non-psychology colleagues.
• Autonomously governance of psychological practice within the service and contribute to policy changes.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and supervise trainee researchers.

Skills

Research methods

Clinical psychometrics

Neuropsychology

Psychotherapy approaches

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

HCPC registration (Clinical)

Job description

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative, dynamic and growing multi-disciplinary Community CYPMH in LSCFT- Fylde and Wyre. The children & young people who access our services present with a wide range of emotional and mental health difficulties ranging from moderate to severe.

We are currently seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist to join a busy and well-respected Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service.

The successful candidate will be expected to take a specific clinical lead role within the team in relation to psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with children and young people. You will contribute to the broader aims of the service through joint working, consultation, training, supervision, and service development/ research. You will be joining the service at an exciting time of development and will be able to help influence change going forward.

You will benefit from an enthusiastic, hard-working and supportive peer group and will be part of a community of psychological professionals within the Trust and Network. The post-holder will receive regular supervision and professional support from an experienced Clinical Psychologist within the service.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service for children and young people struggling with their mental health
• To offer advice, consultation and supervision on this client group’s psychological care to psychology colleagues, non-psychology colleagues and other non-professional carers.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
• To utilise doctoral level research skills as a major component of the post for audit, policy and service development and research and to supervise research carried out by trainee and assistant psychologists.

Working for our organisation

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical)

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of child protection and accompanying policies/procedures and the implementation of these clinically.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with children, young people, carers and families presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of working systemically with family and carer groups and establishing the most effective methods of working with children, young people and their carers.

For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

If you are not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.