Consultant Clinical Psychologist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £76,965 - £88,682 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Preston, PR5 6AW |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7490831/351-BAY829-SRP |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for 9 months maternity leave cover for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our innovative, adult mental health team which is integrated into Lancashire's Family Safeguarding Service.
We are looking for an organised, compassionate, and reflective individual who is passionate about working collaboratively with families to safeguard children. Are you a motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Clinical Psychologist? Are you somebody that relishes change and service development? Do you see the opportunity to positively influence a person's emotional health and well-being as a privilege? If so, we want you to join us on our journey to be the best we can be for our families.
The role will involve providing a high level of expertise, clinical leadership and clinical governance across our pan Lancashire family Safeguarding service. The post holder will take clinical leadership responsibility in the co-ordination and implementation of psychological care and ensure the systematic provision of high quality psychological and psychologically informed interventions. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the service philosophy is underpinned by a strengths based, motivational interviewing approach, providing services that are compliant with NICE guidance and which also recognise the importance of relational aspects of assessment and therapy.
The service is funded by Lancashire County Council to provide specialist assessment and treatment for parents of children open to the Family Safeguarding Service who have identified mental health difficulties which are impacting upon their ability to safeguard their children. The integrated service is positioned at the primary care level, offering preventative early intervention. The overall aim is to provide families with the right mental health support, at the right time, in the aim of keeping families together when it is safe to do so.
You will join a team of Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologist and MH Practitioners who work closely with Social Care colleagues including Social Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Substance Misuse Practitioners and Probation to provide high quality safe and effective care for our service users.
The role will involve developing, clinically leading and managing the service, providing line management and clinical supervision to the 8a and 8b Clinical Psychologists. The post-holder will provide psychological assessment, consultation and intervention to parents/partners open to the Family Safeguarding Service, oversee the evaluation of the psychological therapy service and attend management meetings, team meetings, and group supervision as needed. The role will involve wider service development within the Family Safeguarding Service as well as developing and delivering training to disseminate psychological skills and knowledge.
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 2 Oct 2025