Clinical Psychologist - £7k Welcome Bonus | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 October 2024 |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB2 3HH |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6679260/351-PEN885-CL |
Summary
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a or Band 7 with Preceptorship Senior Clinical Psychologists or recently qualified psychologists interested in preceptorship roles. We require a motivated and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to join our growing team offering input to adult mental health inpatient facilities within Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
The post will primarily be based at our Pendleview Site based at Royal Blackburn Hospital, although we are open to flexibility working across our two sites, the second of which is established at our Whalley site. This is a recently refurbished Woodview Unit which has a total of 32 beds including 12 Male, 12 Female and an 8 bedded Male PICU unit. These additional beds will complement those on the Pendleview Unit, Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Candidates not yet meeting all requirements for appointment at Band 8a can be considered for appointment at Band 7 with the view to progress to 8a dependent on assessment of performance at professional review. Training and development opportunities would be sought to prepare any appointee for the band 8a position.
Progression to the 8a pay band would be conditional upon demonstration of the required competencies via evaluation and job performance. The post holder will be joining a team of Clinical Psychologists offering support to inpatient units across Pennine Lancashire with plenty of opportunity for peer supervision and support.
The post holder will be responsible for providing confident, experienced clinical and managerial input. This will include the following within a multi disciplinary team. To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology Service to service users of the Pennine inpatient services including the provision of enhanced specialist psychological assessment and intervention. To offer advice and consultation on service user’s psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
The post holder would have pre-qualification experience of working in an inpatient environment or experience working qualified in a different profession within adult mental health and would be supported to develop competencies to work fully into a senior clinical psychology role over a two year period. The expectation would be for the post holder to progress via a process of supported development and evaluation to be able to provide direct clinical input, supervision, consultation, teaching and clinical leadership to their multidisciplinary teams as appropriate to a senior psychologist role. This would be supported by access to relevant clinical supervision with different theoretical expertise and professional support from the locality in patient lead/consultant clinical psychologist.
*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; e.g. a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT. Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 6 months of employment. This bonus is applicable from 1st July 2024 – 30th September 2024.
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 for Band 7 preceptorship post to Band 8a:
Band 7 start
• £500 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCft)
Band 8a start
• £2,500 after 2 months of employment as band 8a
• £2,000 after 12 months
• £2,000 after 24 months
PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 6 months of commencing employment.
For more details, please visit our website -Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)
If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contact recruitment@lscft.nhs.uk.
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Oct 2024