Senior Clinical Psychologist/Senior Psychological therapist

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS healthcare provider in Blackburn is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join their Home Treatment Team. The successful candidate will focus on providing psychological support to service users with acute mental health issues in a community setting. This role emphasizes collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team, innovation in treatment approaches, and a commitment to recovery-focused care. Flexible working patterns are encouraged.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Positive work/life balance

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological formulation and interventions.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Passion for recovery-focused community care.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct psychological interventions for acute mental health concerns.
• Collaborate with MDT members on care plans.
• Innovate group psychological intervention strategies.

Skills

CAT or CBT trained and accredited

Dynamic and forward thinking

Team collaboration skills

Education

Relevant psychology degree

Job description

Overview

A vacancy at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting and new opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist (CAT or CBT trained and accredited) to join the Pennine West Home Treatment, with opportunities to also undertake some work in other parts of our urgent care pathway such as the Initial Response Service and Street Triage Teams.

About the team

The Home Treatment Team offers support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in-patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting.

The Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are at the centre of this. We are continuing to work with and develop close partnerships with our fellow LSCFT Teams, as well as external third party providers in supporting the service user recovery.

Role and responsibilities

The psychology role within Home Treatment Team is well established and very much valued. You would be joining a busy, thriving and supportive service with good relationships between psychology and the management teams as well as the wider multi-disciplinary team. As the band 8a psychologist in the team you would be a member of the senior leadership team and have an empowered and positive voice to shape service change and transformation.

The teams will look to you to provide both direct and brief psychological formulation and interventions and joint working with members of the MDT is well established. You will work closely with the team manager, occupational therapist, team medics and clinical leads who are a strong and supportive group of professionals.

The role offers great opportunities for innovation and creativity in terms of the interventions that can be offered. We are keen to increase access to brief group psychological interventions to our service users. The teams value a psychological perspective and are very much open to joint care planning and risk management planning when the need arises.

The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking, be passionate about working with service users with acute mental health concerns, and assist in providing a recovery focused community approach to care and treatment.

Organisation context

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.

Working patterns

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages 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, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Additional information

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025