Senior Clinical Psychologist

Transformation Unit; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist (NHS AfC Band 8a) to work with cardiac patients within the Directorate of Psychology. The role supports remote delivery of interventions and requires experience in the NHS, with a focus on psychological care for cardiac services.

The post emphasises multidisciplinary collaboration, reflective practice, and supervision, with flexible working patterns and a permanent contract.

Qualifications

• Required: D.Clin.Psy or equivalent with HCPC registration.
• Experience in NHS clinical psychology practice and remote delivery of interventions.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and deliver supervision.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychological interventions with patients, carers, and staff.
• Undertake 1:1 and group psychological interventions for cardiac patients.
• Provide reflective practice and clinical supervision as required.
• Contribute to service development and governance within the Directorate of Psychology.

Skills

Complex assessments

Effective communication

Workload planning

Education

D.Clin.Psy or equivalent

HCPC registration

Achieved

Tools

SPSS

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Main area Directorate of Psychology - working into cardiac care Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (remote working) Job ref 382-NBC170-26

Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BTH Town Blackpool Salary £57,528 - £64,750 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

Senior Clinical Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

We are seeking a senior clinical psychologist with an interest in working with cardiac patients to join the Directorate of Psychology. If you have experience of working remotely to effectively deliver psychological interventions and a demonstrable ability to adapt your practice to changing service needs we would be interested in your application.

Main duties of the job

To support the vision and aims of the Directorate of Psychology at BTH.

As a member of the Directorate of Psychology you will deliver psychological interventions with patients and where appropriate carers and staff to further the psychological wellbeing of patients.

To undertake 1:1 and group based psychological interventions with patients under the care of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre.

To deliver reflective practice and consultation sessions as required.

To take part in clinical supervision as both supervisor and supervisee relevant to service need.

Working for our organisation

You will be joining a welcoming Directorate of Psychology and work with the Cardiac Psychology service Lead and Head of Directorate to develop provision into a context where we have developed new ways of working, such as the Psychological Integration and Triage meeting model which supports excellent liaison and Team working with Talking Therapies colleagues, while ensuring specialist psychological provision can be accessed as effectively as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a detailed breakdown of the responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• D.Clin.Psy or equivilent
• HCPC registration
• achieved

Experience

• Experience of working remotely with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Post-qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist (or equivalent) within the NHS
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

Skills and Knowledge

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to plan and prioritise own clinical workload and research programmes.

Personal

• Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration, responding and participating as required.
• Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
• Ability to cope with unpleasant working environments or conditions
• Ability to cope in, and deal with, highly distressing emotional circumstances.

Other

• Ability to teach, train & supervise others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Computer literate, familiar with word, PowerPoint and other relevant software packages such as SPSS.

Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £24, Standard DBS check £24 and Enhanced DBS check £45.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

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.