Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Lincoln seeks an experienced Specialist Clinical Psychologist for a 12-month contract. The role includes leading psychological assessments, treatment planning, and providing clinical supervision to staff. The ideal candidate will have post-doctoral training in clinical psychology and experience in working with diverse client groups. Competitive benefits and a focus on professional development make this an excellent opportunity to impact patient care positively.

Benefits

Early access to Psychological Therapies

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major retailers and restaurants

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience working with adults accessing psychological services.
• Experience supervising professionals providing psychological interventions.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across various settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead psychological assessment and treatment for patients.
• Contribute to risk assessments for individuals referred to the service.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to staff.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment skills

Effective communication skills

Organizational skills

Research methodology knowledge

Cultural sensitivity in psychology

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Chartered Psychologist Status

Registered with HCPC

Tools

Psychological assessment tools

Job description

Specialist Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 15 February 2026

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract or secondment to cover maternity leave from May 2026. You will be responsible for the autonomous provision of a specialist psychological service for service users on Castle Ward, Lincoln (a female acute inpatient ward) and the Grantham Crisis Team.

You will provide expert psychological services to clients, and to other agencies and professions, and clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of service planning, co-ordination, and management as agreed with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

We are a long-established psychology department consisting of eight psychologists working across LPFT acute, rehabilitation and low secure wards, and the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams across the county. We value CPD within the department, and are keen support ongoing learning and development.

Applications are invited from candidates who would like to help improve our patient experience within the acute care pathway. This is an exciting and challenging role which will afford the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of a supportive team that is focused on delivering high standards of care through evidence-based practice.

Main duties of the job

• To lead on the psychological assessment and treatment for patients.
• To contribute to risk assessments for individuals referred to the service.
• To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients\' mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patient\'s problems, via the employment of methods based upon evidence-based practice and efficacy.
• To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological.
• To provide clinical supervision, reflective practice and support to staff in the acute pathway as required.
• To sit on relevant committees/projects/working groups of the Trust as required.
• To support the Continuing Professional Development of more junior psychologists working in the department.
• To provide educational inputs to other professionals and to the staff of other agencies as required.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of \"outstanding\" for well-led and \"good\" overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We\'re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you\'re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that\'s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Chartered Psychologist Status
• Registered with HCPC
• Post-qualification further training in a specialist therapy
• Training in one other related model of intervention

Experience

• Post qualification experience working with adults who access a psychological service, including those with trauma histories and those with psychosis
• Experience of supervising professionals who provide psychological interventions to service users with psychosis and complex trauma
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with a range presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis
• Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of teaching and training
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Skills

• Analysis and Judgement - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Relationships and Communications - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, partners, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Planning and Organising - Ability to plan, organise and prioritise time; to balance both clinical and non-clinical work and to meet requirements of CPD
• Research - Post-graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
• Legislative Knowledge - Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice and professional management of adult client group
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• IT skills enabling use of e-mail and input of minimum data set.

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.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust