# Psychologist Clinical Principal

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Guild Lodge
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Psychologist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term: 12 months)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12T14:00:54.136Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8360377
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8360377?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical, counselling or forensic psychology, including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Substantial post-qualification experience working as a qualified psychologist with children, young people and their parents/carers.
- Substantial experience of contributing a psychological perspective within the context of multidisciplinary and multiagency care for children, young people and their parents/carer
- 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

**Essential**

- 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.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional attachment focused area of psychological practice, for example, DDP or Theraplay ®.

## Documents

- [jdps (pdf, 440.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10686912)
- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)

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