Senior Clinical Psychologist

Lancashire & South Cumbria Nhs Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust seeks a clinical psychologist to join its growing community mental health rehabilitation service across central and east Lancashire. The role offers development and clinical leadership of a new service, with Scope to embed psychologically informed approaches from the outset.

The post collaborates with two rehabilitation teams to deliver specialist care, innovate practice and contribute to governance and service development.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of two specialised psychological therapies.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex information to clients and colleagues within and outside the NHS.
• Experience completing neuropsychological assessments and communicating results sensitively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of a highly specialist psychology service across two community teams.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions including neuropsychological work.
• Offer supervision, governance input and staff training within the service.

Skills

Specialised therapies knowledge

Communication skills

Neuropsychological assessments

Education

Clinical psychology doctorate

HCPC registration

Job description

Job summary

As part of the wider transformation of community mental health services, we are delighted to be recruiting to this newly developed post. The successful candidate will join with already existing rehabilitation services to help develop and deliver community mental health rehabilitation services across the central and east Lancashire area. Joining us at this time, the post-holder will gain valuable experience in development and clinical leadership of a new service. They will be well placed to help bring innovation and creativity to the development of these important new services and can help embed psychologically informed ways of working from the start.

Aligned with national drivers to improve outcomes for individuals with the most complex mental health difficulties, work is underway to ensure that we offer a robust pathway in the least restrictive, clinically effective and safest way possible. Phase 1 of the Rehab transformation project will focus on the establishment of the Community Rehab teams within the Pennine area, before rolling out to bring in the Central/Preston localities. It is anticipated that the post-holder will work across both patches providing equitable psychological input to both teams.

Newly qualified applicants will be considered and, where appropriate, appointed under a Band 7 to Band 8a preceptorship programme, with support and development opportunities to facilitate progression.

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of a specialist mental health rehabilitation team that provides specialist assessment, treatment, interventions and support to enable the recovery of people whose complex needs cannot be met by general adult mental health services. This service aims to work with people to help them acquire or regain the skills and confidence to live successfully in the community. They focus on addressing and minimising the symptoms and functional impairment that people may have, with an emphasis on achieving as much individual autonomy and independence as possible.
• The post holder will lead in the development and provision of a highly specialist psychology service for clients with complex psychological and mental health presentations across two mental health rehabilitation community teams.
• To provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions, including neuropsychological assessment, as well as providing consultation and advice on clients' psychological care to MDT colleagues and carers.
• To contribute to support and training of other staff within the care group, across the trust and into other services as agreed.
• To provide clinical supervision and to play an active role in service developments and governance within the service as required.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

About us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
• HCPC registration.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and /or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS.
• Experience in completing neuropsychological assessments, interpretation of results, and ability to communicate these sensitively as appropriate.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working therapeutically with clients with varied complex, psychological and mental health difficulties.
• Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent, or "hard-to-reach", clients.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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