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Clinical Psychologist Principal


Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Location

Preston, Lancashire | United Kingdom


Job description

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 & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

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 & South Cumbria 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 about  Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job overview

CAMHS and Child Psychology Integrated Service / Paediatric Diabetes team  – covering Preston and Chorley South Ribble

Fixed Term ending October 2024 for 30 hours per week at Band 8a or 37.5 hours a week at Band 7

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Psychologist, registered with the HCPC, who has post qualification experience in working with children, young people and their families, in particular with health conditions, including diabetes.

This is a fixed term post to the end of October 2024 to cover maternity leave. The core role will be to manage a caseload and provide a psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with children and young people diagnosed with diabetes and be an integral member of the Paediatric Diabetes Team for Preston and Chorley. This includes Welcome Calls and newly diagnosed groups, as well as joint work with the Team in the clinics and providing consultations.

 

 

Main duties of the job

We support our staff to deliver high quality and innovative psychological interventions with service-users through individual, systemic/family, and group work.

There will be opportunities to contribute to leadership activities, through indirect work, consultation, MDT meetings, supervision to others and service audit/evaluation activities.

There is specialist clinical supervision provided as well as support from the wider team, which consists of CAMHS Practitioners, Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists, Psychiatrists, Nurse Prescribers, Primary Mental Health Workers, Children & Young People Wellbeing Practitioners and Psychological Therapists.

We regularly take trainees from the North West Clinical Psychology training courses and encourage staff to offer core and specialist placements to trainees.

This is an exciting time to join Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust due to the regional service re-design in line with the ‘Thrive’ model www.annafreud.org/what-we-do/improving-help/thrive-framework/.  Thrive places service-users at the heart of service-delivery with a focus on needs-led services and shared decision-making.

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

Education

Essential criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Please note that further communication from Lancashire & 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.

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

For all posts which require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure & Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Care is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (especially those with experience of accessing mental health, or Learning Disability Services or caring for someone who has accessed mental health services or Learning Disability Services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. The organisation is proud to be listed as one of the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers and our HR department holds the Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Wendy Kellaway
Job title
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Telephone number
01772 777344


Job tags

Part timeApprenticeshipFixed term contractTraineeshipTerm timeRemote jobWork from homeFlexible hours


Salary

£43.74k - £57.35k per annum

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