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Job summary

Main area
Applied Psychologist
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week (18.75 hours per week)
Job ref
351-CEN1026-CPC-D
Employer
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Strand House
Town
Preston
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Clinical Psychologist *£7k Incentive*

Band 8a

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

•    Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
•    Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
•    Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

For more information visit our website via .

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen, due to promotion of the post holder, for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Preston CMHT Team.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be joining an enthusiastic team of nine Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapist across Central and West Lancashire. CPD, and personal interests are actively encouraged and supported, and appropriate Clinical, Professional and Management supervision, will be provided.

Preston has good motorway links to Manchester, Liverpool and the Lake District. The service takes Trainees from, and has good relationships  with, the local Clinical Psychology Training Courses based in Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster. 

Working for our organisation

*The Welcome Bonus is only available to candidates who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider Trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria (LSC) Integrated Care System (ICS) in a like-for-like role or core profession. For example, a Band 6 OT / Social Worker / MH Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 OT / Social Worker / MH Nurse role at LSCFT or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner Role that requires the same profession. 

These trusts are:
•    University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust
•    East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
•    Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
•    Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 6 months of employment. This bonus is applicable from 01/07/24 – 31/12/24.

The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:

•    £3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT)
•    £2,000 after 12 months 
•    £2,000 after 24 months

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology
  • Two or more distinct psychological therapies
  • Lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • An increased level of knowledge equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a 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 presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to teach and train 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
  • Ability to self reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Care Leaver Covenant

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr. Martin Tighe
Job title
Consultant Clinical Psychologist Professional Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07967790585
Additional information

PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 6 months of commencing employment. 

For more details, please visit our website - Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)

If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contact [email protected].