Consultant Clinical Psychologist

2 weeks ago

Preston Lancashire, United Kingdom Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join the Central & West Lancashire's inpatient psychology team. The post is primarily based at the Chorley Inpatient Wards, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital with clinical responsibilities, dependent on service need and demand, to other units/ wards within Central inpatient services. Within the Chorley Inpatient Unit there are two functional wards (male and female) as well as a female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. We are looking for an organised, compassionate, and motivated individual to join our team. We want to recruit people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute. As such you will play a significant role in helping us achieve the team vision of delivering a high quality, safe and effective service for our in-patient community.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a senior member of the service to assist in providing clinical leadership and strategic service development to the clinical teams and services within the designated specialty clinical care group. The post holder will work closely with other senior clinical and managerial staff within the locality/specialty area to provide a psychological perspective to service planning, service development and clinical service transformation across the locality/specialty area.

The post holder will be expected to lead on a designated area of psychological development, governance or implementation across the locality/specialty e.g. the development and embedding of Psychologically Informed Interventions.

It is also expected that the post-holder will retain a caseload and provide a specialist clinical role within the Service team where they are based.

About us

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • 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.
  • HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical).
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Knowledge

Essential


  • Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology, including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

Experience

Essential


  • Substantial post qualification experience including experience within the designated specialty/type of service
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, in various settings including outpatient, community, primary care inpatient and residential care settings. Also including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse.
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibilities for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care- coordinator and also within the context of a multi- disciplinary care plan.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Central & West Inpatient Management

Chorley & South Ribble Hospital

Chorley

PR7 1PP

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