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Assistant Psychologist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	25 July 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£25,147 - £27,596 Per Annum Pro Rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	24 August 2024
Location:	Preston, PR3 2JH
Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6514077/351-SPS1152-SH

Summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust (LSCFT) was established in April 2002 and authorised as a Foundation Trust on 1st December 2007. The Trust provides health and wellbeing services for a population of around 1.5million people. The services provided include community nursing, health visiting, and a range of therapy services including physiotherapy, podiatry and speech & language. Wellbeing services provided include smoking cessation and healthy lifestyle services. The Trust specialises in inpatient and community mental health services. Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust covers the whole of the county and employs around 7,000 members of staff across more than 400 sites.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust is a great place to work and has a sound future as a leading provider of excellent services. The Trust invests in its staff and seeks to provide them with opportunities for training and personal development.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a keen and enthusiastic band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join the Forensic Community Mental Health Team (FCMHT). FCMHT is part of the Forensic Community Service within the Specialist Services Network. FCMHT is based at The Parlick Centre at Guild Loge in Whittingham, Preston. However, the role will require travelling within the areas of Lancashire and South Cumbria.

FCMHT is a community based specialist mental health team, providing care designed to support and supervise service users who have a diagnosis of severe mental disorder with a risk to others who have previously received inpatient treatment at low, medium, or high security settings.The FCMHT provides an accessible, responsive and adaptable service, prioritising the needs of service users with complex needs, to maintain the safety of service users, families, carers and the general public.

The post holder will support all aspects of the service delivery, in particular supporting the delivery of the clinical model, engaging in supervision, assessing the needs of those referred, developing collaborative formulations, supporting the development /delivery of structured sessions/group work, undertaking specialist risk assessment under supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, and collecting and inputting data as required.

We want to recruit people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute to the demonstrated effectiveness and acceptability of our service.

Staff at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust work to improve lives with a culture based on four core values:

We are kind

We are a team

We are respectful

We are always learning

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on the role. When completing thesupporting informationsection of your application, please ensure you show how you meet each of the criteria of the person specificationproviding illustrative examples where possible;as this is what you will be shortlisted against.


This advert closes on Thursday 8 Aug 2024