Principal Clinical Psychologist grade

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to provide input for children and families within the All Age Learning Disability Service. The role involves offering psychological assessments, developing consultancy systems for care, and exercising autonomous responsibility within professional guidelines. Applicants should be aware of the need for a DBS check and provide referees. The organization emphasizes flexible working patterns for its staff.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Responsibilities

• Provide Clinical Psychology input to children and families within the All Age Learning Disability Service.
• Offer advice on children's psychological care to families and professionals.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines for systematic governance.
• Utilize skills for research and policy development within the service.

Job description

Responsibilities

• To provide Clinical Psychology input to children/young people and families/carers within the All Age Learning Disability Service (LDS), including enhanced specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working within service policies, procedures and protocols.
• To offer advice and consultation on children and young people's psychological care to families, carers, colleagues and other professionals, developing formal consultancy systems within the nominated team(s) under guidance of the Consultant/Professional Lead, working autonomously within professional guidelines and overall service policies and procedures.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for systematic governance of psychological practice within the designated area of responsibility.
• To utilise skills for research and audit, policy and service development, implementing policy changes within LDS in agreement with the relevant lead/manager.

Application Guidance

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document. AI assistance must be declared; undeclared use may result in withdrawal. For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

Contact details for referees must be provided to enable LSCFT to contact them. Further communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address given on the application form.

Trust Overview

The vision of Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve. We deliver a comprehensive range of services including primary and secondary mental health care, specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services, specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, specialist community support, and extensive community physical health and well-being services.

We offer flexible working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. Discuss these options at interview.