Job summary
- Main area
- Directorate of Psychology - working into cardiac care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (remote working)
- Job ref
- 382-NBC170-26
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- BTH
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We are seeking a senior clinical psychologist with an interest in working with cardiac patients to join the Directorate of Psychology. If you have experience of working remotely to effectively deliver psychological interventions and a demonstrable ability to adapt your practice to changing service needs we would be interested in your application.
Main duties of the job
To support the vision and aims of the Directorate of Psychology at BTH.
As a member of the Directorate of Psychology you will deliver psychological interventions with patients and where appropriate carers and staff to further the psychological wellbeing of patients.
To undertake 1:1 and group based psychological interventions with patients under the care of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre.
To deliver reflective practice and consultation sessions as required.
To take part in clinical supervision as both supervisor and supervisee relevant to service need.
Working for our organisation
You will be joining a welcoming Directorate of Psychology and work with the Cardiac Psychology service Lead and Head of Directorate to develop provision into a context where we have developed new ways of working, such as the Psychological Integration and Triage meeting model which supports excellent liaison and Team working with Talking Therapies colleagues, while ensuring specialist psychological provision can be accessed as effectively as possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for a detailed breakdown of the responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- D.Clin.Psy or equivilent
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- achieved
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working remotely with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Post-qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist (or equivalent) within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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
- Ability to plan and prioritise own clinical workload and research programmes.
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration, responding and participating as required.
- Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
- Ability to cope with unpleasant working environments or conditions
- Ability to cope in, and deal with, highly distressing emotional circumstances.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach, train & supervise others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Computer literate, familiar with word, PowerPoint and other relevant software packages such as SPSS.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lyn Sutcliffe
- Job title
- Head of the Directorate of Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 955713
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
BTH
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