Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-CEN2620-CC
- Employer
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chorley Health Centre
- Town
- Chorley
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - CMHT
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
Due to the promotion of the current post-holder, a vacancy has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist in the Chorley Adult CMHT. The Post is within Central and West Lancs. locality, which has a Team of 11 Clinical Psychologists and CBT Therapists. We offer Placements to Trainees from the Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster University Training Courses.
Main duties of the job
The Post Holder will be supported with good Professional and Clinical Supervision, and we actively encourage CPD. The Post is suitable for a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist.
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
For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Eligibility for registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical )
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Skills in the use of and interpretation of Neuropsychological Testing e.g WAIS V etc
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both inside and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of Adults across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with Adults presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Skills
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 in, and deal with, highly distressing emotional circumstances.
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
- [email protected]
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For more Information contact: [email protected] Consultant Clinical Psychologist, [email protected] Principal Clinical Psychologist Or [email protected] Service Manager
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