Principal Clinical Psychologist

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Principal Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 30 October 2025

The Bay team are one of our local MDTs and are currently looking for someone to join them! They are a caring and supportive team 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. They are passionate in being part of an All-Age Service, which is fairly unique across England, and for this reason they have regular locality development sessions, and each team member has a vital role in sharing knowledge and skills.

In reading this advert, this role may be of interest to you. The advert is currently funded at a Principal Clinical Psychologist grade, so if you have the experience, then great! 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.

Main duties of the job

• 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 enhanced 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 develop and implement formal systems of consultancy within the nominated team(s), as directed and guided by the Consultant/Professional Lead. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and overall service policies and procedures.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the designated area of responsibility.
• To utilise skills for research and audit, policy and service development. To implement policy changes within LDS, in agreement with the relevant lead/manager.

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Doctorial level training 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)

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation, and its implications in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.

Experience

• Experience of working Psychologically with individuals who have a learning disability, including severe and multiple or profound disabilities.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan, as part of a learning disability service/provision.
• Post doctorate experience of working with children and their families/carers.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

£64,455 to £74,896 a yearper annum, pro rata