Clinical Psychologist Principal | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health organization in the UK is seeking a Band 8B Clinical Psychologist to join their Central Home-Based Treatment and Mental Health Liaison Teams. The role involves providing specialist clinical psychology services, supervising team members, and working autonomously to improve mental health care. The Trust promotes flexible working arrangements to ensure a positive work-life balance for employees. The closing date for applications is Thursday, 20 Nov 2025.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive team environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working in mental health settings.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Supervision experience for other psychologists and clinical members.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality specialist clinical psychology services.
• Supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by team members.
• Implement policy changes in agreement with relevant managers.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Research skills

Risk management

Team collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

An exciting opportunity for a Band 8B Clinical Psychologist has arisen to join the Central Home-Based Treatment Team and Central Mental Health Liaison Team.

Home Based Treatment Team offer 24-hour support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute inpatient environment. There is a strong focus on preventative interventions, robust risk management and the recovery model to provide quality care in a community setting.

MHLT provide Mental health assessments to service users who present to the Royal Preston Accident and Emergency Department and Chorley Urgent Centre. In addition MHLT provide assessment, care and treatment plans to patients who are receiving care on the medical wards. The team has a full MDT approach consisting of Mental Health Nurses, Doctors, Health Care Assistants and Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

The Central Home-Based Treatment Team and Mental health Liaison team strive towards excellence and pride themselves as teams who are kind, compassionate and flexible.

The Post holder will be supported by the local Professional Lead for Clinical Psychology.

To be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients and staff within the HBTT and IRS areas of responsibility.

To supervise and support psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care, treatment and assessment.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the designated areas of responsibility.

To utilise research skills, audit, policy and service development and research and implement policy changes within the areas served by the team/service in agreement with the relevant manager.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages 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, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025