Consultant Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Whittingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

We are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist to be the Lead for Inpatient Psychology Services at Guild Lodge Secure Mental Health Inpatient Hospital.

Guild Lodge is a regional secure unit and provides medium secure, low secure and step down provision for both men and women with complex mental health difficulties, as well as a specialist pathway for men with acquired brain injury.

An experienced candidate is required to provide psychological leadership and clinical supervision into the inpatient psychology service, and to work closely with their counterpart in the community service to ensure continuity in the application of psychological input across the transition. The successful applicant will work alongside a well established large psychology team to ensure a high standard of psychological service.

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic person with a range and depth of experience of working in secure care, including expertise in risk assessment and formulation, management of personality disorder, interventions for psychosis, accreditation in at least one model of a relevant therapy, and a track record of delivering supervision and other aspects of clinical leadership to psychology and non-psychology staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder would be expected to:

• Work as a senior member of the service to assist in providing clinical leadership, supervision and strategic service development to the forensic inpatient service.
• Work closely with other senior clinical and managerial staff within Guild Lodge to provide a psychological perspective to service planning, service development and clinical service transformation.
• Hold a clinical case load within the Inpatient forensic service.
• Contribute to LSCFT wide discussions regarding Forensic inpatient services.
• Provide supervision.
• Provide consultation to colleagues and other services.
• Provide governance/ oversight for interventions, referrals, waiting lists and clinical delivery.
• Provide psychological leadership which will be a core part of the job role.

This opportunity comes at an exciting time for the service where psychology is taking a lead role in transformation, hence candidates should also be able to demonstrate experience in service development.

The post will be supported via clinical supervision and managerial supervision with the Associate Director of Operations for Forensic services and professional supervision from the Associate Director of Psychological Professions for Specialist Network.

About us

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, believing 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.

Job responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or the equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, specifically including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical).
• Eligibility for consultant clinical psychologist appointment approval from external BPS assessor.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience including experience within the designated specialty/type of service.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, in various settings including outpatient, community, primary care inpatient and residential care settings.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibilities for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care-coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of providing a range of complex psychological assessment and interventions using information derived from a variety of sources and requiring highly developed analytic and interpretative skills.

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology, including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.

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.