Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-CEN2496-CL
- Employer
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Eating Disorder Service
- Town
- Lancaster
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist / CBT Therapist
Band 7
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.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
We are pleased to offer this post for a qualified Clinical Psychologist or Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. The post is based at Harvey House, Lancaster; which is the base for the Bay Eating Disorder Team, but the post holder will also be expected to work in the Kendal and Barrow localities. The team is part of the All Age Eating Disorder Service which covers Lancashire and South Cumbria. You will be joining a dynamic multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including psychological therapists, systemic family therapist, specialist mental health nurses, specialist dietitian and medical professionals.
This would be an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to develop skills and knowledge in the area of eating disorders. An interest in acquiring skills in NICE guidelines recommended treatments for eating disorders would be important. A good grounding in CBT is expected and training can be provided for more specialist interventions.
The role will involve delivery of high quality assessments, formulation and specialist interventions to people from all age groups who have an eating disorder. Alongside other duties, the role will also involve providing psychologically informed guidance to other practitioners, provision of consultation, training, supervision and service development.
Main duties of the job
• To provide high quality psychological therapy to adults and also children and young people who present with an eating disorder, including those with a degree of complexity.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including specialist nurses, psychologists/ psychological therapists, specialist GP/ medics and dietitians.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedure.
• To provide clinical supervision and mentoring to other members of the MDT as required.
• To provide psychological therapies for eating disorders in accordance with the evidence base in both 1:1 and group formats.
• To deliver a psychological therapies in accordance with NICE guidelines, meeting key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
• To provide advice and consultation on clients’ care, to colleagues and to non-professional carers.
• To utilise research skills for audit policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.
• To work with the Team Leaders and Senior Clinical Psychologists/Lead Clinicians to support managing waiting times, prevalence and recovery.
• To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
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.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical psychology or counselling psychology, accredited by the BPS. And Professional registration as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
- Or Formally recognised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Post Graduate Diploma CBT full accreditation with BABCP AND Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. RMN or Social Worker OR KSA equivalence
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies including CBT
- Extensive theoretical and clinical knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with eating disorder etc.) and disorder specific treatment models.
- 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
- Evidence of ability to develop and evaluate areas of care and treatment.
- Well developed skills in providing advice to other professionals and non-professionals.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience of assessment and treatment of clients in mental health services.
- A broad range of experience of working with a wide variety of clients 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 and knowledge of providing clinical supervision, utilising appropriate supervision models and safeguarding
- Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion delivering specialist.
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to sit in constrained positions when working with clients.
- 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
- Working to professional guidelines.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sheri Giles
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07483352680
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