Newly Qualified/Senior Clinical Psychologist

Bidvane; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Preceptorship for newly qualifieds

Flexible working options

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a psychologist to join the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team in Preston. The post offers preceptorship for newly qualified psychologists with supervision of trainees and an emphasis on direct clinical work and staff consultation.

You will deliver specialist assessments, run formulation sessions, provide staff training, and contribute to audit and service development while supporting team wellbeing.

Qualifications

• BPS-accredited doctorate in clinical psychology or equivalent if trained before 1996
• Postgraduate diploma-level knowledge in addition to entry-level qualification
• Doctoral-level knowledge of research methodology and multivariate analysis
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients in the team
• Offer advice and consultation on psychological care to colleagues and carers
• Run psychology consultation sessions with staff
• Deliver direct clinical work
• Run formulation sessions and therapeutic groups
• Chair complex case meetings
• Deliver staff training
• Support staff wellbeing and supervise colleagues when required
• Offer trainee placements for clinical psychology students
• Develop formal consultancy systems within the team
• Use research skills for audit, policy and service development

Skills

Complex psychological assessment

Consultation with staff and carers

Staff training and supervision

Research literacy and audit

Communication of complex information

Education

BPS-accredited doctorate in clinical psychology

Postgraduate diploma-level knowledge

Doctoral-level research methodology knowledge

Job description

This development post sits in the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team for Preston, Chorley and South Ribble, within Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The core work is direct psychological therapy, complex case formulation and consultation with staff across the team. It suits a newly qualified psychologist seeking a preceptorship in older adults, or an experienced clinician, and includes supervising colleagues and offering trainee placements. Fit depends on a doctorate in clinical psychology, or an equivalent for those trained before 1996.

What the job involves

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients of the nominated team
• Offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and non-professional carers
• Run psychology consultation sessions with staff
• Deliver direct clinical work
• Run formulation sessions and therapeutic groups
• Chair complex case meetings
• Deliver staff training
• Support staff well-being
• Supervise psychology and non-psychology colleagues when required
• Offer placements for trainee clinical psychologists
• Develop formal consultancy systems within the team under the Locality Professional Lead
• Use research skills for audit, policy and service development

What’s required

Qualifications

• BPS-accredited doctorate in clinical psychology, or equivalent if trained before 1996, covering psychopathology, psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more therapies and lifespan development
• Postgraduate diploma-level knowledge in addition to an entry-level qualification
• Doctoral-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Experience

• Specialist psychological assessment and treatment across outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
• Working with a wide range of patient groups across the whole life course, at the full range of clinical severity
• Handling highly emotive and distressing presentations, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse with professionalism
• Full clinical responsibility for psychological care, including as a qualified care co-ordinator within a multidisciplinary care plan

Skills & knowledge

• Complex psychological assessment and intervention requiring sustained concentration
• Teaching and training others using complex multi-media materials for public, professional and academic audiences
• Identifying and applying clinical governance to support practice in the face of emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Communicating complex, technical or clinically sensitive information orally and in writing to clients, families, carers and professionals
• Providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups

Other

• Knowledge of legislation relevant to the patient group
• CPD log showing at least 40 hours a year, as recommended by the BPS

What’s offered

• Flexible working options such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time
• Wellbeing resources, tools and support in and out of work
• Preceptorship within a supportive team for newly qualified psychologists