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Job summary

Main area
Community Health Services
Grade
Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
351-PEN817-EB-A
Employer
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trustwide - Pennine to host locality
Town
Blackburn
Salary
£70,417 - £81,138 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead

Band 8c

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.

Job overview

Essential Qualifications required:

  • 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).

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to act as lead for the Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) interventions pathway in Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust (LSCft).

Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) is a term used to describe service users who may have difficulties associated with a personality disorder.

As part of the NHS Long Term Plan Community Transformation a new Complex Emotional Needs pathway has recently been developed which is non-diagnostic focused and instead focused upon service user complexity and need.

Within the pathway there are specialist interventions provided and developed that are run trustwide including Structured Clinical Management, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mentalisation Based Therapy. These interventions are delivered by Specialist Practitioners for Personality Disorder, Structured Clinical Management (SCM) practitioners, Psychologists and Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) staff.

 

 

 

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic person with a passion to work with clients who present with complexity, a history of trauma, risk and difficulties managing their emotions or relationships and impulsivity.

Experience that would be valuable to this post includes previous work with this client group, experience of Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) working, experience of delivering Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Structured Clinical Management or Mentalisation Based Therapy and experience of providing supervision and consultation.  

This post offers an opportunity to be able to provide long term meaningful interventions with the potential to make a real difference to clients’ lives. 

The successful post holder would be expected to

  • Work as a senior member of the service to assist in providing clinical leadership, supervision and strategic service development to the clinical teams and services within the designated specialty clinical care group.
  • Work closely with other senior clinical and managerial staff within localities to provide a psychological perspective to service planning, service development and clinical service transformation across Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust (LSCft).
  • Hold a clinical case load within the CEN pathway
  • Contribute to LSCFT wide discussions regarding Community Transformation
  • Provide supervision
  • Should you wish to discuss the post in more detail please contact us on the details provided.

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
  • HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical).
  • Eligibility for consultant clinical psychologist appointment approval from external BPS assessor.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rebecca Brockhouse
Job title
Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Hein Ten-Cate 

Associate Director for Psychological Professions - Pennine

[email protected]

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