Highly Specialist Clinical/Forensic Psychologist
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincoln, LN2 4WHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
28 October 2026
8 days leftJob description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (0.5 WTE) 8b Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join the MHTR service across Lincolnshire. Mental...
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification which detail the duties of this role.
This post is for 0.5 WTE with some opportunity to manage this within a flexible arrangement.
You will be the Clinical Lead for the team and so the role provides opportunities to develop leadership skills, pathway development work, and supervisory skills as well as your own therapeutic skills.
You will provide clinical oversight and supervision of the MHTR team in providing psychological interventions for individuals referred through the court as part of their community sentence. You will be supported through supervision from a Consultant Psychologist, alongside support from the Service Manager and Team Manager. Still a relatively new service, the post offers a real opportunity for shaping and developing the service.
Partnership working is important to the service. you will be required to engage with and maintain relationships with relevant partner agencies. They will also oversee and evaluate the team's screening, assessment and formulation processes and model(s) of intervention (in accordance with the existing CSTR Programme Operating Framework). The Clinical Lead will also hold a small caseload to provide treatment for more complex cases.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology (BPS accredited)
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or forensic psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, psychological therapies and life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable: - Chartered Psychologist Status
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience working with adults/children who access a psychological service, including those with trauma histories and those with psychosis
- Significant experience of supervising professionals who work with offenders or people with mental health problems
- Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with a range of presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience in specialist assessment of autism and intellectual disability
- Interest in and knowledge of the criminal justice system
- Experience of sharing psychological formulation within the MDT and with non-specialists (e.g. police/courts)
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to non-psychologists
Skills
Essential
- Research
- Post-graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
- Legislative Knowledge
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, particularly criminal justice legislation and mental health legislation, and its implications for clinical practice and professional management of the client group
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- IT skills enabling use of e-mail and input of minimum data set
Desirable: - Skilled in generating psychological assessments and formulations that can be understood by the MDT and external agencies such as the Court
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
13 October 2026
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