Job summary
- Main area
- Community Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-BAY651-EB
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sceptre Point
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Safeguarding Team Senior Clinical Psychologist
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 Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
Location: Hybrid Model. Locality satellite offices are available across Lancashire as well as the option to work remotely
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical Psychologist to work within Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire County Council as part of the Family Safeguarding Service.
The Family Safeguarding Service aims to keep the highest risk children and families in Lancashire together safely, improve health and educational outcomes for the children and reduce physical and emotional harm in families. The teams are multi-disciplinary and co-located within Children's Social Care and are made up of social care practitioners and adult specialists to work with parents in relation to domestic abuse, mental health and substance misuse.
The multi-disciplinary teams will work together to support families to keep together where it is safe to do so. Our teams have a focus on a motivational interviewing approach to support families and empower and engage parents to make the positive changes needed to achieve improved outcomes for their children and their own wellbeing.
The Senior Clinical Psychologist will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Services provided by adult specialists to parents/carers.
For further information or an informal discussion about the post please contact us on the details provided
Main duties of the job
The post will be professionally linked to a large and supportive psychology network within the Trust. We also have strong links with the local Clinical Psychology doctorate programmes.
And some examples of the duties that will be expected are;
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the parent’s formulation and treatment plan.
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of parents to inform intervention planning.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To provide clinical supervision for Mental Health Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
- To work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to plan and deliver training, MDT support and consultation, as required.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
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 and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An increased level of knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.
- Knowledge of legislation relevant to the patient group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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
- Demonstrable evidence of a continuing commitment to developing expertise in psychological assessment and intervention
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kimberley Taplin
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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