Clinical Lead- Clinical Psychologist

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

We are seeking an innovative and experienced colleague to join the leadership team of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Talking Therapies.

The service is a large provider of psychological therapies in the Lancashire and South Cumbria region.

You will be joining a group of experienced, knowledgeable and passionate clinical and operational leads. We are committed to continued professional development clinically, as a supervisor and as a leader.

The successful candidate is expected to already be trained to supervisor level. The role will be varied in supporting specific Talking Therapies teams and their interface with other services, in a co-production model with team leaders and deputy team leaders.

1 x full-time, permanent 8a Senior Clinical Psychologist post with a specific focus on Long-term conditions (LTC) pathways in the service with a focus on new partnerships with physical health teams as well as provision of clinical supervision in groups.

Main duties of the job

1. To work as a member of the NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Talking Therapies Leadership Team to deliver a quality and innovative service.
2. To provide professional and clinical leadership to the High Intensity Therapists across the full LSCft NHS Talking Therapies footprint.
3. To take delegated responsibility as the aligned clinical lead for a designated locality.
4. To work closely, utilising a co-production model, with designated Team Leaders to ensure the systematic provision of a high quality NHS Talking Therapies Service across that Locality and ultimately across the LSCft footprint.
5. To ensure that robust supervision arrangements are in place for the relevant Step 3 High Intensity Therapist workforce.
6. To work alongside a range of different professionals, practice teams, practice audit through networking and the wider health and social care system to deliver care in the Primary Care setting.

Working for our organisation

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 NHSft.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification Qualifications

• Evidence of post qualification supervisor training and delivery of clinical supervision
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent for those who trained before 1996
• Recognised qualification in CBT to postgraduate level with BABCP accreditation, or a commitment to Clinical Psychologist top-up training with NHS Talking Therapies

Knowledge

• Clearly demonstrable in depth and breadth knowledge in relation to Counselling/CBT theory and practice
• HCPC registration as practitioner psychologist
• Knowledge of the NHS Talking Therapies model
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings/services including physical health
• Experience of working with a wide variety of clients that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Significant experience of working in the field of physical health with adults
• Demonstrable evidence of a continuing commitment to developing expertise in psychological assessment and intervention

Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.

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Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

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You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you'd like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.