Clinical Psychologist Principal | Lancashire & South Cumbria Nhs Foundation Trust

CAMHS and Child Psychology Integrated Service / Paediatric Diabetes team – covering Preston and Chorley South Ribble
Fixed Term (maternity leave cover) from October 2023 for 30 hours per week at Band 8a or 37.5 hours a week at Band 7
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Psychologist, registered with the HCPC, who has post qualification experience in working with children, young people and their families, in particular with health conditions, including diabetes.
This is a fixed term post from October 2023 to the end of October 2024 to cover maternity leave. The core role will be to manage a caseload and provide a psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with children and young people diagnosed with diabetes and be an integral member of the Paediatric Diabetes Team for Preston and Chorley. This includes Welcome Calls and newly diagnosed groups, as well as joint work with the Team in the clinics and providing consultations.
We support our staff to deliver high quality and innovative psychological interventions with service-users through individual, systemic/family, and group work.
There will be opportunities to contribute to leadership activities, through indirect work, consultation, MDT meetings, supervision to others and service audit/evaluation activities.
There is specialist clinical supervision provided as well as support from the wider team, which consists of CAMHS Practitioners, Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists, Psychiatrists, Nurse Prescribers, Primary Mental Health Workers, Children & Young People Wellbeing Practitioners and Psychological Therapists.
We regularly take trainees from the North West Clinical Psychology training courses and encourage staff to offer core and specialist placements to trainees.
This is an exciting time to join Lancashire &South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust due to the regional service re-design in line with the ‘Thrive’ modelwww.annafreud.org/what-we-do/improving-help/thrive-framework/. Thrive places service-users at the heart of service-delivery with a focus on needs-led services and shared decision-making.
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 CumbriaFoundation 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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Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role
This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Feb 2024