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Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 - £81,138 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2024 |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB1 3BL |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6453669/351-PEN817-EB-A |
Summary
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.
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.
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
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 1 Aug 2024