Principal Clinical Psychologist in Lancaster

We are looking for a Locum Principal Clinical Psychologist to cover an assignment with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), at MHT Preston, in Preston, Lancashire.

Work pattern: Monday - Friday (22.5 hours)

The successful applicant will deliver an exceptional standard of care to the MoD service personnel and their families.

Pay Rate: Payee £32.79 per hour

Main duties of the job:

• To provide a high-quality specialist qualified Clinical/Counselling psychology service as an autonomous and independent practitioner within the defined service sector.
• To provide a specialist psychological assessment and therapy service, demonstrating clinical leadership, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.
• To maintain the highest standards of record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing, activity returns and professional self-governance via supervision and continuous professional development.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development within the defined service sector.
• To work with a range of professional groups within a multidisciplinary environment, encompassing joint assessments, individual outpatient work, group work or a co-ordinated team approach to patient care.

About Military Medical Personnel and Our Benefits:

• Military Medical Personnel (MMP) is a specialist recruitment consultancy dedicated exclusively to providing locum civilian medical, dental and healthcare professionals to the Ministry of Defence.
• Attractive rates of pay with weekly payments and choice of payment model.
• Flexibility of long- and short-term assignments to suit your availability.
• Free uniforms provided (if required).
• A PVG membership (Disclosure Scotland) or an Access Northern Ireland certificate is required for this role.
• Free mandatory training.
• Assigned an experienced consultant who will support you throughout your application and during your assignment.

All job placements are subject to the receipt of satisfactory compliance requirements. We reserve the right to remove this requirement once a suitable candidate has been selected. Please note that MMP is unable to sponsor work visas. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK, such as a valid visa with no restrictions on hours.

Job responsibilities:

• To provide a high-quality specialist qualified Clinical/Counselling psychology service as an autonomous and independent practitioner.
• To provide a specialist psychological assessment and therapy service, demonstrating clinical leadership.
• To maintain the highest standards of record keeping.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
• To work with a range of professional groups within a multidisciplinary environment.
• The post holder will be primarily based as agreed with the Head of Service but will also be expected to see clients at other locations as appropriate.

Person Specification:

• Must be eligible for Graduate Membership of the BPS.
• Must have Postgraduate doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Must have HCPC registration under Practitioner Psychologist domain.

• Must have a minimum of two years post-qualification experience working as a Clinical/Counselling psychologist within the designated specialty (Adult Mental Health).
• Must be able to evidence having been permanently employed for a minimum of two years at a Principal grade.
• Must be able to evidence having carried out clinical research.
• Must have evidence of delivery of teaching and training.
• Must have evidence of having provided consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Must be in date and able to provide certification for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Safeguarding Adults up to and including Level 3 training.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.