Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-BAY937-MF
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Parlick Centre, Guild Park
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead
Band 8a
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
We are delighted to announce a fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway as a Clinical Lead for REVIVE, an Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) in Lancashire. The service is jointly commissioned by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the National Health Service (NHS) and is delivered via a joint service model that includes Health and HMPPS partners and is complemented by further partnership work with third sector organisations across Lancashire.
REVIVE IIRMS is a community based intervention and risk management service that complements, enhances and works with existing OPD pathway provision in Lancashire; it operates as part of a tiered approach to supporting HMPPS in their management of people who present with high risk and complex needs, and who screen into the OPD pathway. Those suitable for the service will present with primary needs associated with relational/interpersonal difficulties, will have significant resettlement/transition needs, they may be institutionalised and/or may lack social/familial support.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Lead is required to oversee the clinical delivery of REVIVE IIRMS alongside the OPD Operational Health Lead and a Senior Probation Officer. This involves the co-ordination and delivery of the service, including provision of psychologically informed support, clinical advice, group and 1:1 supervision and reflective practice to health and probation staff working within the service. The successful applicant will form part of an established team to support in the delivery of the service in line with the National Offender Personality Disorder Strategy.
We welcome applicants from a diverse range of Professional backgrounds with relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact
Carrie Best (Operational Health Lead) - [email protected]
Working for our organisation
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.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and/or BPS. OR Professional qualification (e.g.) RMN/OT/Social Worker, a Post-graduate diploma or qualification in another recognised NHS psychotherapy model such as psychodynamic psychotherapy, DBT or CBT
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical expertise and knowledge of services users with personality difficulties/disorder and a highly developed understanding of clinical approaches across mental health needs.
- Specialist level of knowledge of assessment, formulation and intervention approaches with clients with PD/mental illness, their related needs and complex risk presentations.
- Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, including highly sensitive and complex clinical and risk information across a range of agencies and services.
- A strong understanding of organisational cultures and values and an awareness of how these can impact on service developments
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 5 years experience working within services for people with highly complex clinical and risk presentations.
- Evidence of working within a relational practice model and having the ability to demonstrate evidence of own relational approach to their work.
- Experience of delivering therapeutic group interventions using a specific model.
- Experience of working with or within secure/criminal justice settings, ideally in a leadership position.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carrie Best
- Job title
- Operational Health Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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