Principal Clinical/Counselling/Practitioner Psychologist-£7k Incentive

NHS; Fleetwood; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Clinical/Counselling/Practitioner Psychologist - £7k Incentive

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Band 8b Clinical Psychology Role available offering clinical input and leadership across the Fylde Coast and based in the Fylde and Wyre Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)

We require a motivated, dynamic and experienced qualified Clinical/Counselling/Practitioner Psychologist to join our well-established team of Clinical/Counselling/Practitioner Psychologists and Psychological Therapists offering input to the Fylde Coast Community Mental Health Team. The post is well-established within the Fylde Coast and has become vacant due to the previous post-holder getting a promotion within the same Network. You would be joining a friendly and supportive team, who work well within the MDT, and see a broad range of clinical presentations. This is a great opportunity to develop therapeutic skills in Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and Compassion Focused Therapy. Clinical and/or peer supervision can be provided in each of these modalities. In this role, there are opportunities for direct and indirect/systemic clinical work, consultation, research, audit, and clinical leadership.

Main Duties of the Job

The successful candidate will work with a Principal Clinical Psychologist who works into the Blackpool CMHT to provide joint clinical leadership and supervision to the Senior Clinical Psychologists, Senior CBT Therapist/EMDR Consultant, Assistant Clinical Psychologist, and Trainee Clinical Psychologist(s) working within the teams. As a principal psychologist, there would be opportunity for the post holder to deputise for the psychology lead alongside the Principal Clinical Psychologist in Network. The post-holder will also be part of a wider and supportive team of psychological professionals within the Fylde Coast Network, which includes Older Adult and Inpatient psychology services.

The Fylde Coast is easily accessible via the M6 and M55 motorways. The nominated base for this is negotiable across the Fylde and Wyre CMHT and Access and Urgent Care Teams.

Job Responsibilities

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:

• £3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT)
• £2,000 after 12 months
• £2,000 after 24 months

Individuals obtaining assistance through the Welcome Bonus scheme are required to sign an agreement which includes the following:

• Return all of the monies paid if they do not start on the agreed date detailed within their unconditional offer.
• Return all of the monies paid if they voluntarily leave the employment of the Trust within 6 months of commencement.
• Return all of the monies paid if they move within the Trust from one role to another role which does not attract the welcome bonus within 6 months of commencement.
• If they move to a new role that does not attract the welcome bonus after 6 months, then future payments will cease.

If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them, please contact [e-mail].

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral 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.

Knowledge

• A minimum of 4 years experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems 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.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and supervising.
• Demonstrable experience of conducting complex audit/research and service evaluation.

Experience

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• 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.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.

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