Principal Clinical Psychologist

Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist to join their Mental Health Team. The ideal candidate will provide psychological assessments and therapy for children and young people within the All Age Learning Disability Service. The team values creativity and person-centered approaches and encourages professional development alongside flexible working patterns. Opportunities for growth and support from colleagues are ample, making this a rewarding position for driven candidates.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological assessment and therapy.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Strong understanding of child and adolescent mental health.

Responsibilities

• Provide Clinical Psychology input to children and families.
• Offer advice and consultation on psychological care.
• Develop and implement systems of consultancy.
• Conduct research and implement policy changes.

Skills

Clinical Psychology input

Consultation

Autonomous working

Research and audit skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

The Mental Health Team based in the Bay network within LSCFT are one of our local MDTs and are currently looking for someone to join them! They are a caring and supportive team of professionals who pride themselves in being creative and innovative, being driven to offer a service which is genuinely person centred. By this, I mean they are a team which is led by the individuals whom they support.

There is careful consideration of the young person's needs, and those of their family, and how they as a team can meet these preferences. They are continually learning together and finding innovative ways of working to meet these needs. They are passionate in being part of an All-Age Service, which is fairly unique across England, and for this reason they have regular locality development sessions, and each team member has a vital role in sharing knowledge and skills.

In reading this advert, this role may be of interest to you. The advert is currently funded at a Principal Clinical Psychologist grade, so if you have the experience, then great! There are plenty of opportunities to grow the role, pursue your own clinical interests, and gain support from colleagues both within your locality MDT and the wider psychological team. If not yet, then please do not be put off considering this role. We would still encourage you to contact us and explore if this opportunity is right for you.

• To provide Clinical Psychology input to children/young people and their families/carers, in receipt of support from the All Age Learning Disability Service (LDS). This would include the provision of enhanced specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working within the policies, procedures and protocols applicable to the service.
• To offer advice and consultation on children and young people’s psychological care, where appropriate, to families and/or professional carers, colleagues, and other professionals. To develop and implement formal systems of consultancy within the nominated team(s), as directed and guided by the Consultant/Professional Lead. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and overall service policies and procedures.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the designated area of responsibility.
• To utilise skills for research and audit, policy and service development. To implement policy changes within LDS, in agreement with the relevant lead/manager.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Emma Hignett Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Telephone number: 01254 226482