Senior Clinical Psychologist

Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust; Kendal, Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to enhance psychological services for children and young people in South Cumbria. The role includes assessments, delivering psychological therapies, and offering consultation to other professionals. Candidates must possess a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and current HCPC registration, with proven experience working with young clients across settings. This is a part-time permanent position with a competitive salary range of £55,690 to £62,682 annually.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology with accreditation by the BPS.
• Current registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience as a qualified clinical psychologist working with children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality psychological services to children and families.
• Offer consultation to non-psychology colleagues.
• Utilize research skills for service development.

Skills

Communication skills

Complex psychological assessment

Consultation skills

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Current registration with the HCPC

Job description

Job Summary

We are excited to recruit to a Senior Clinical Psychologist post to support the provision of psychological input across our Children and Young People's Mental Health (CYPMH) team in South Cumbria (covering our team bases in Kendal and Barrow-in-Furness).

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to support the provision and delivery of high quality psychological services within their specific geographical area and work closely with senior colleagues to achieve this.

They will provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to children, young people and their families, within a specialist CAMHS team, including delivering specialist psychological assessment, formulation and psychological therapies.

Another key part of the role will be to offer advice and consultation to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers, as well as to utilise research skills for audit policy and service development within the area served by the service.

About Us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

Details

Date posted: 09 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 351-SPS1554-MF

Job locations: Kinta Annex, Kendal or Alfred Barrow Health Centre, Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 2LB

Job Responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

For further information please contact Claire Nichols, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South Cumbria CAMHS, LSCFT; or Vicki Sherrington, Service manager.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Current registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical)

Essential Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology
• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• A high level of ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Essential Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with children, young people and their families, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of working systemically with family and carer groups and establishing the most effective methods of working with children, young people and their carers.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified autonomous practitioner and also within the context of a multidisciplinary treatment plan.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Kinta Annex, Kendal or Alfred Barrow Health Centre, Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 2LB

Employer's website: https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)