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Senior Clinical Psychologist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 1NB

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

4 September 2026

4 days left

Job description

The South Cumbria team is one of our local MDTs and are currently looking for a Clinical Psychologist to join them. If you are a caring and highly com...

  • To undertake appropriate tasks to support the Learning Disability Service (Children), as agreed with Operational Lead and Consultant Clinical Psychologist. To monitor the impact of such work on case and workload, communicating any associated risks to patient care to operational and/or professional leads.
  • To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
  • To ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team(s) have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
  • To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multidisciplinary care.
  • To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

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

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.
  • HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical).

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of working with people who have a learning disability, and their families/carers
  • Keyboard skills sufficient to enter data/write reports
  • Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required.

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 August 2026

Last checked

25 August 2026

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About the employer

LSC
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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