Consultant Clinical/ Forensic/ Counselling Psychologist, Guild Lodge, Regional Secure Unit, Specialist Services Network, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Base/Location: Secure Services, Guild Lodge, Regional Secure Unit, Guild Park, Whittingham, Preston PR3 2JH
Band/Salary: 8c
Hours / Pattern of work: 1 WTE (37.5 hours)
Type of contract: Permanent
We are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an 8c Consultant Psychologist to be the Psychology Lead for Inpatient Psychology Services at Guild Lodge Secure Mental Health Inpatient Hospital.
Guild Lodge is a regional secure unit and provides medium secure, low secure and step down provision for both men and women with complex mental health difficulties, as well as a specialist pathway for men with acquired brain injury.
An experienced candidate is required to provide psychological leadership and clinical supervision into the inpatient psychology service, and to work closely with their counterpart in the community service to ensure continuity in the application of psychological input across the transition. The successful applicant will work alongside a well established large psychology team to ensure a high standard of psychological service.
Qualifications and Experience Required
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic person with a range and depth of experience of working in secure care. Relevant experience would include expertise in risk assessment and formulation, management of personality disorder, interventions for psychosis, accreditation/ expertise in at least one model of a relevant therapy, and a track record of delivering supervision and other aspects of clinical leadership to psychology and non-psychology staff.
Responsibilities
* Work as a senior member of the service to assist in providing clinical leadership, supervision and strategic service development to the forensic inpatient service.
* Work closely with other senior clinical and managerial staff within Guild Lodge to provide a psychological perspective to service planning, service development and clinical service transformation.
* Hold a clinical case load within the Inpatient forensic service.
* Contribute to LSCFT wide discussions regarding Forensic inpatient services.
* Provide supervision.
* Provide consultation to colleagues and other services.
* Provide governance/ oversight for interventions, referrals, waiting lists and clinical delivery.
* Provide psychological leadership which will be a core part of the job role.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages 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, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
This opportunity comes at an exciting time for the service where psychology is taking a lead role in transformation, hence candidates should also be able to demonstrate experience in service development.
The post will be supported via clinical supervision and managerial supervision with the Associate Director of Operations for Forensic services and professional supervision from the Associate Director of Psychological Professions for Specialist Network.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Oct 2025
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