Senior Clinical Psychologist

Main area Community Learning Disabilities - Children and Young People Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 351-PEN1175-ZK-B

Site College House Town Barrow-in-Furness Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per Annum Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 23:59

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

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

The South Cumbria team is one of our local MDTs and are currently looking for a Clinical Psychologist to join them. If you are a caring and highly committed professional who takes pride in working creatively and innovatively to offer a genuinely person-centred service, this post will be of interest to you.

In addition to locality MDT-based developments you would also be joining our wider group of Clinical Psychologists who meet regularly to develop the role and clinical offer within the Service. There will also be plenty of opportunities to grow this role which will be supported from colleagues both within your locality and the wider psychology team. We also heavily support much needed local and national research for children and young people who have a learning disability and their families.

The advert is currently for a Senior Clinical Psychologist, so if you have the experience, then great. However, we would also be happy to talk to you have less than two years qualified and are interested in joining our team.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake appropriate tasks to support the Learning Disability Service (Children), as agreed with Operational Lead and Consultant Clinical Psychologist. To monitor the impact of such work on case and workload, communicating any associated risks to patient care to operational and/or professional leads.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team(s) have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
• To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multidisciplinary care.
• To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

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.
• HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical).

Knowledge

• Knowledge of working with people who have a learning disability, and their families/carers
• Keyboard skills sufficient to enter data/write reports
• Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required.

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 four 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.

Please note that further communication from 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.

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document.

If you use AI to assist with your application, you must declare this. Undeclared use may result in withdrawal. Please ensure your application reflects your own skills and experiences. While AI tools can assist, they may produce generic or inaccurate content. We encourage you to provide personal examples that demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria.

For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Name Jason Wright Job title Service Manager Email address Jason.Wright@lscft.nhs.uk Telephone number 077903 88047 Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact: Dr Emma Hignett, (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Children’s LDS Psychology Lead (Pan Lancashire) on 01254 226482 or Jason Wright, Service Manager on 077903 88047.

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