Senior/Principal Clinical Psychologist (£7k* Welcome Bonus)
Band 8b (8a to 8b preceptorship also considered)
Main area: Psychology Grade Band 8b (8a to 8b preceptorship also considered)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-FYL450-MF-H
Site: The Harbour Town Blackpool
Salary: £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision: 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:
1. 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.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Older Adult 8b (or 8a to 8b Preceptorship) Clinical Psychology Role available offering clinical input and leadership across the older adult in-patient pathway.
We require a motivated, dynamic and experienced qualified Clinical Psychologist to join our well-established team of Clinical Psychologists offering input to the Older Adult Wards at the Harbour in Blackpool. In this role, there are opportunities for direct and indirect/systemic clinical work, consultation, research, audit and clinical leadership. As a principal psychologist in the unit, there would be opportunity 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 reach the expected level of competencies for an 8b psychologist (over a period of up to two years subject to successful completion of the competencies).
Main Duties of the Job
The Harbour is a purpose-built psychiatric hospital that opened in 2015. You would be joining an established team of clinical psychologists at the Harbour that are interested in compassionate leadership approaches. We are invested in creating CPD and wider networking opportunities through regular team and wider inpatient psychology team interactions and events. We are a friendly cohesive team all working in the same building and as such this is a post with lots of peer support and interaction with psychology colleagues.
Psychology input at the Harbour is well established and appreciated by the wider multidisciplinary teams working here. Assistant psychologists are also employed on a fixed term basis, and the post would be required to contribute to professional leadership and operational management of these posts.
Working for Our Organisation
The £7k Welcome Bonus package applies to this role. The bonus is only available for people who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in a like-for-like role.
The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:
1. £3,000 after 2 months of employment
2. £2,000 after 12 months
3. £2,000 after 24 months
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 6 months of commencing employment.
If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contact recruitment@lscft.nhs.uk.
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996
* HCPC registration as practitioner psychologist.
Knowledge
* An increased level of knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma
* 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
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care 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
* Demonstrable evidence of a continuing commitment to developing expertise in psychological assessment and intervention
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.
LSCft 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.
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