Job requirements
Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Knowledge
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge
Doctoral level knowledge of clinical, counselling or forensic psychology, including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology.
- Experience
Substantial post-qualification experience working as a qualified psychologist with children, young people and their parents/carers.
- Experience
Substantial experience of contributing a psychological perspective within the context of multidisciplinary and multiagency care for children, young people and their parents/carer
- Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of child and family presentations that reflect the full range of clinical need, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties.
- Qualifications
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996) or a similar psychological field (ie forensic or counselling 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.
- Qualifications
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional attachment focused area of psychological practice, for example, DDP or Theraplay ®.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within SCAYT+. This is a team of emotional health workers, social workers and clinical psychologists.
We support carers, parents and professionals by providing advice about parenting, child behaviour and development, serious emotional, behavioural and relationship problems, past abuse, trauma and neglect.
The focus will be on working out what each individual child needs and enabling that to be incorporated within their overall care plan.
The team also provides an immediate response following any issues raised by the completion of the Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ) questionnaires, a national indicator for the emotional health of children looked after.
Main duties of the job
We will usually start our work together with a consultation. This can be with a single worker or carer or can be a wider meeting with a number of relevant professionals and carers. This may be a one off, or if it is helpful, we might agree a series of meetings.
Although our primary focus is on consultation with carers and professionals we can also engage in direct work with children in conjunction with their parents/carers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
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.
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This advert is for Psychologist Clinical Principal with Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in Preston, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term: 12 months). The application deadline is 26 Oct 2026.
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