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Perinatal Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 20 October 2025
Are you a qualified clinical psychologist who would like to join a busy, compassionate and us in an exciting development post? We will provide you with training and support you will need to move from Band 7 to 8A within an agreed time frame.
Our service is at a really important stage, we have received additional funding via the NHS Long-Term Plan meaning we can significantly expand our team. We now have a great development opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist preceptor to join our North Hub, Specialist Community Perinatal Team.
The Perinatal CMHT team is made up of three Hubs and the postholder would work into the North hub, covering the North Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint. They would work closely with psychology colleagues across the Hub teams and within the Mother & Baby Unit. The post would require travel across the Hub and more widely within the service footprint on occasion.
We aim to provide an excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Service for the women of Lancashire and Cumbria. We do this by effective multidisciplinary integrated team working and ensuring effective prevention by:
* Intervening earlier from 32 weeks pregnancy and up to 2 years postnatally.
* On-going training and supervision of professionals from multiple disciplines.
* Improving pathways and processes for mothers, their families and professionals.
* Delivering a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal mental health service
Main duties of the job
We can offer you lots of opportunities for training and the ongoing development of clinical and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment. We would support you to attain the competencies required to transition from Band 7 to the 8a role, within a specified timeframe.
* As this is a significant expansion for the service, you would join us at a key time, meaning you would have a significant influence on our service development. We would welcome applicants who have a special interest in this vulnerable client group and who have the ability to adapt and change to meet the needs of the service and the service users. We are also keen to hear from current trainees due to qualify in 2021 and candidates who may not have worked previously in perinatal, but who feel they have the transferable skills to enable to them to succeed in this role. The successful candidate will receive additional training in areas such as parent/infant interaction and other skills relevant to the role, as appropriate.
Jo Gorry, Lead Psychologist for LSCFT Perinatal Service, on 07971671346 or email jo.gorry@lscft.nhs.uk
About us
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
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* The Graduate Basis for Registration (further to completion of an honours degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, or, in the case of courses that are not accredited or where the first degree is not in psychology, by completion of the Society's Qualifying examination, or completion of a Society accredited Conversion Course).
* Completion of Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology
* Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC
Knowledge
* Well-developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of perinatal clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training and supervised experience.
* Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the psychological formulation and implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems.
* Skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment consistent with doctoral level training.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based intervention with clients across the full range of care settings.
* At least one year's relevant post qualification experience and training, enabling the post holder to provide supplementary supervision to clinical psychology trainees
* Qualified experience in a perinatal or parent-infant service
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts/understanding of under-served groups
* Completion of DClin supervisor training
Skills
* High level interpersonal skills necessary to obtain and complex, sensitive or contentious information in emotionally charged and extremely emotive settings; as well as barriers to understanding arising from cognitive, cultural or linguistic factors.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Keyboard skills sufficient to enter data/write reports
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum (subject to confirmation)
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