We are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist to be the Lead for Inpatient Psychology Services at Guild Lodge Secure Mental Health Inpatient Hospital.
Guild Lodge is a regional secure unit and provides medium secure, low secure and step down provision for both men and women with complex mental health difficulties, as well as a specialist pathway for men with acquired brain injury.
An experienced candidate is required to provide psychological leadership and clinical supervision into the inpatient psychology service, and to work closely with their counterpart in the community service to ensure continuity in the application of psychological input across the transition. The successful applicant will work alongside a well established large psychology team to ensure a high standard of psychological service.
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic person with a range and depth of experience of working in secure care, including expertise in risk assessment and formulation, management of personality disorder, interventions for psychosis, accreditation in at least one model of a relevant therapy, and a track record of delivering supervision and other aspects of clinical leadership to psychology and non-psychology staff.
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 forensic inpatient service.
• Work closely with other senior clinical and managerial staff within Guild Lodge to provide a psychological perspective to service planning, service development and clinical service transformation.
• Hold a clinical case load within the Inpatient forensic service.
• Contribute to LSCFT wide discussions regarding Forensic inpatient services
• Provide supervision
• Provide consultation to colleagues and other services
• Provide governance/ oversight for interventions, referrals, waiting lists and clinical delivery.
• Provide psychological leadership which will be a core part of the job role.
This opportunity comes at an exciting time for the service where psychology is taking a lead role in transformation, hence candidates should also be able to demonstrate experience in service development.
The post will be supported via clinical supervision and managerial supervision with the Associate Director of Operations for Forensic services and professional supervision from the Associate Director of Psychological Professions for Specialist Network.
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.
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
For more information or an informal discussion please contact either:
- Dr Rebecca Brockhouse, Associate Network Director for Psychological Professions, Specialist Network- Rebecca.Brockhouse@lscft.nhs.uk
- Dr Chris Harrop, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, current lead for inpatient services- chris.harrop@lscft.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025