# Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/eca5689d-266d-4118-aa5b-ee607fa51feb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/eca5689d-266d-4118-aa5b-ee607fa51feb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Pennine Inpatient Psychology Service - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pa - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Backfill for maternity leave) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T15:00:40.168Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8225718 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8225718?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview LSCFT is an organisation that recognises and values the contribution of clinical psychology in the delivery of high quality services. Psychology provision within inpatient services is established, well regarded and highly valued. This is demonstrated by the considerable investment into inpatient psychology provision. An opportunity has arisen for a WTE band 7 psychologist to join our Whalley site for one year to offer backfill for a maternity leave. We require a motivated and dynamic Clinical Psychologists to join our team offering input to adult mental health inpatient facilities within Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. This post is based at our Whalley site in the Pennine Locality. Lancashire and South Cumbia is a diverse geographical area to live and work. We have good motorway and rail links, vibrant urban cities, rolling countryside and beautiful coastline all within easy travel distance. We believe it is a great place to live and has something for everyone. Here at LSCFT we are a dedicated and passionate community of psychological professionals. We are committed to staff support and CPD and encourage opportunities for colleagues to undertake innovative work where appropriate to their job roles. There are Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and peer support groups for a range of therapy models and presentations. ### Main duties of the job You will also have access to individual clinical supervision and CPD in-line with professional requirements, and will be supported to develop your own supervision skills. As an organisation, we are passionate about contributing to research and evidence-based practice as well as developing the next generation of clinicians and leaders, you will be supported to develop a specialist interest in an area relevant to your work. We would love to hear about this in the application process. You will therefore have opportunities for research, teaching, training and supervising clinical psychology trainees on placements and completing theses/ service research projects. We have an annual psychological professionals’ conference as well as Trust support for innovative psychological practice as supported by our psychological professionals’ governance group. We aim to provide a culture of unity and joined up working with colleagues and we feel there is a strong sense of community and psychological identity here. If you are considering a psychological profession’s post here at LSCFT we encourage you to contact us and we would be very happy to talk further about this available opportunity – we look forward to hearing from you! ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings. - Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems 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. ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - 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, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. - Keyboard skills sufficient to enter data/write reports ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - 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. ### Work Related Circumstances **Essential** - Ability to teach and train 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. ## Documents - [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.