Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-PEN1003-LW
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Home Treatment Team Pennine
- Town
- Blackburn
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist/Senior Psychological therapist
Band 8a
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a 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, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
Job overview
This is an exciting and new opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist (CAT or CBT trained and accredited) to join the Pennine West Home Treatment with opportunities to also undertake some work in other parts of our urgent care pathway such as the Initial Response Service and Street Triage Teams.
The Home Treatment Team offers support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in-patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting.
The Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are at the centre of this. We are continuing to work with and develop close partnerships with our fellow LSCFT Teams, as well as external third party providers in supporting the service user recovery.
Main duties of the job
The psychology role within Home Treatment Team is well established and very much valued. You would be joining a busy, thriving and supportive service with good relationships between psychology and the management teams as well as the wider mutli-disciplinary team. As the band 8a psychologist in the team you would be a member of the senior leadership team and have an empowered and positive voice to shape service change and transformation.
The teams will look to you to provide both direct and brief psychological formulation and interventions and joint working with members of the MDT is well established. You will work closely with the team manager, occupational therapist, team medics and clinical leads who are a strong and supportive group of professionals.
The role offers great opportunities for innovation and creativity in terms of the interventions that can be offered. We are keen to increase access to brief group psychological interventions to our service users. The teams value a psychological perspective and are very much open to joint care planning and risk management planning when the need arises.
The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking, be passionate about working with service users with acute mental health concerns, and assist in providing a recovery focused community approach to care and treatment.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An increased level of knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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 patient’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in communicating 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 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
- Debbie Berry-Lewis
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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