Principle Clinical Psychologist

2 weeks ago


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

This is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Clinical Psychologist to work within Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire County Council as part of the Family Safeguarding Team.

The Family Safeguarding Team 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.

Main duties of the job

The Principal Clinical Psychologist will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Services provided by adult specialists to parents/carers.

Examples of the duties that will be expected are

  • To provide specialist psychological assessments.
  • To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service user's psychological formulation and treatment plan.
  • 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 work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist to plan and deliver training, MDT support and consultation, as required.
  • To provide clinical supervision to an Assistant Psychologist, Trainee clinical Psychologist and Mental Health Practitioners within the team.
  • To support the Clinical Lead with service development and innovation.
  • To deputise for the Clinical Lead when required

LSCFT is an organisation that values the contribution of clinical psychology in the provision of high quality services. We are also committed to providing the best development opportunities for our staff, the post holder would have options to access relevant continuing professional development and training. The organisation also has good links with the local Clinical Psychology Doctorate Courses and we encourage trainee placements.

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


  • Doctoral level training 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


  • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
  • Knowledge of legislation, and its implications in relation to the client group and mental health.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.
  • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Experience

Essential


  • 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.
  • Experience of teaching, training and supervising.

Skills

Essential


  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rossendale Children And Parent Support Services (Negotiable)

Rossendale

BB4 7QX

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