A Vacancy at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
We require a motivated, dynamic and experienced qualified Clinical Psychologists to join our well established team of Clinical Psychologists offering input to the Harbour inpatient facility at Blackpool within Lancashire Care Foundation Trust. These posts would be inputting into the older adult wards at the Harbour Hospital in Blackpool. In this role you would be expected to input into complex patients offering direct input, consultation and clinical leadership. As a principal psychologist in the unit there would be expectation for the post holder to deputise for the psychology lead alongside other 8bs in the unit. If taken on as preceptor you would be supported to develop competencies to work fully into a principal clinical psychology role over up to two year period. The expectation would be for the post holder to fully progress via a process of supported development and evaluation to reach the expected level of competency for an 8b psychologist. This would be supported by the 8c psychologist and 8b psychologists already working in the unit. The Harbour is a purpose built psychiatric hospital that opened in 2015. As such it is a modern state of the art unit with excellent facilities for patients. You would be joining a team of clinical psychologists at the Harbour that includes two consultant psychologists, a senior to principal preceptor and a senior psychologist.
We are committed to providing the best development opportunities for our staff and the post holder would have options to access continuing professional development and training. We are very willing to consider funding training in development of skills and further qualifications in relevant treatment approaches that will benefit inpatient psychology service provision. There are also opportunities for research within this dynamic and forward thinking service. The organisation also has very good links with the Lancaster University based Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course.
The Fylde coast area that the job is situated is itself is dynamic and stimulating place to be. The locality has good transport links being situated adjacent to the M55 with quick access to the M6. The area also enjoys very reasonable housing costs.
As a front line hospital worker it is essential that work onsite with teams and patients and remote working would not be considered for this post.
Enquiries about the post can be made via Dr James Hoy (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on 01253 447866. Visits to the unit to meet the team and discuss the post would be welcomed.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025