Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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Job summary

We are looking to recruit an experienced Older Adult Psychology Locality Lead for The Bay (Lancaster and Morecambe, South Lakes and Furness)

We expect candidates to bring a real passion and enthusiasm for older adult work, with a range of experience in community and inpatient areas. In this post you will provide professional leadership to a team of psychologists working into Later Life and Memory Services, a Community Mental Health Team, a Rapid Intervention and Treatment Team, a Memory Assessment Service and an Older Adult Inpatient Ward.

You will be supported by the network psychology lead, and will work alongside operational, clinical and other colleagues to ensure an excellent service for older people in the locality.

The successful post holder will be responsible for supervision of junior colleagues and will also work clinically into older adult services in the area, according to need. You will be joining a thriving and supportive older adult psychology specialty, and you will also link with psychology leads from across the mental health network, which incorporates adult mental health and secure services, at regular meetings.

For informal enquiries please contact us on the details provided.

Main duties of the job

The Bay is a great place to be a psychologist. You would be a welcome member of the psychology workforce, both locally and within the Trust, with exciting and creative development opportunities available. There is a genuine focus on clinical professional development, peer support and networking with colleagues, and should you be interested, you would have the rare opportunity to consider training as an approved clinician, under the guidance of the Network ADO psychologist who has undertaken this process.

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. 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

Date posted

22 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£70,417 to £81,138 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

351-BAY492-EB

Job locations

Ramsay Unit - Furness General Hospital

Kendal

LA14 4LF

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

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).
Eligibility for consultant clinical psychologist appointment approval from external BPS assessor.

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.
A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.

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.

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).
Eligibility for consultant clinical psychologist appointment approval from external BPS assessor.

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.
A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.

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.

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 (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ramsay Unit - Furness General Hospital

Kendal

LA14 4LF

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ramsay Unit - Furness General Hospital

Kendal

LA14 4LF

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)