Senior Clinical Psychologist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	14 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	14 December 2025
Location:	Accrington, BB5 5DE
Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7619166/351-SPS1526-SRP

Summary

In reading this advert, this role may be of interest to you. The advert is currently funded at a Senior Clinical Psychologist grade, so if you have the experience, then great! We would be happy to talk to you if you are Newly Qualified and are interested in joining our team! There are plenty of opportunities to grow the role, pursue your own clinical interests, and gain support from colleagues both within your locality MDT and the wider psychological team. If not yet, then please do not be put off considering this role. We would still encourage you to contact us and explore if this opportunity is right for you.

The Pennine team, who work across East Lancashire, are one of our local MDTs and have an exciting opportunity for someone to join them for a period of 6 months. The team are a caring and supportive group of professionals who pride themselves in being creative and innovative, being driven to offer a service which is genuinely person centred. By this, I mean they are a team which is led by the individuals whom they support. There is careful consideration of the young person's needs, and those of their family, and how they as a team can meet these preferences. They are continually learning together and finding innovative ways of working to meet these needs.

To provide Clinical Psychology input to children, young people and their families/carers in receipt of support from the All Age Learning Disability Service (LDS). This would include the provision of specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working within the policies, procedures and protocols applicable to the service.

To offer advice and consultation on children and young people’s psychological care, where appropriate, to families and/or professional carers, colleagues, and other professionals. To implement formal systems of consultancy within the nominated team(s), as directed and guided by the Principal/Consultant/Professional Lead. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and overall service policies and procedures.

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.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.


This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025