Principal Clinical Psychologist - £7k Incentive* inBlackpool inBlackpool PUBLISHED THU 23 JAN 2025

Principal Clinical Psychologist (Band 8b, 26.25 hours available, 0.7wte)

Available as a preceptorship progressing from 8a to 8b

Service: Children and Young People’s Psychological Service (CYPPS), Blackpool

Base: Whitegate Drive Health Centre.

We are delighted to share this opportunity to join our expanding team. This post is available at 8b for a suitably experienced clinician, or as a preceptorship (8a to 8b) for a clinician with relevant experience, but who would benefit from a preceptorship programme to develop fully into the 8b role. The preceptorship route would be completed over a period of 12-24 months depending on development needs; you would be joining a service with experience of supporting successful preceptorships and established governance around the process.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with children, young people and their families. You will have an area of specialist interest that is relevant to the clinical area and which they wish to develop further. We are particularly keen to hear from candidates who have interest and therapeutic experience in areas including attachment and developmental trauma or neurodiversity.

The Children and Young People’s Psychological Service (CYPPS) Blackpool is a multidisciplinary service offering highly specialist psychological therapies. We aim to deliver high quality, creative and innovative psychological intervention through consultation, parent workshops, individual, systemic/family intervention and group work. We offer a range of psychological therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (and third wave), Eye movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Video Interactive Guidance (VIG), Theraplay®, Family Therapy. As a standalone specialist psychological therapy service, we work closely (and are co-located) with neighbouring services for children and young people (including CAMHS, Primary Mental Health Services, School Nurses), in addition to working closely with external agencies including Children’s Social Care and Education.

As a senior clinician in our service, you will lead an area of clinical provision and develop and evaluate that aspect of the service. You will also identify areas for future development and quality improvement. You will be well supported in this work - our service has an excellent track record of supporting clinicians in their development; we have a robust pathway for supervision in place locally, in addition to peer support/supervision groups across the network for more specialist therapies and interests (e.g. EMDR, neuropsychology).

• The £7k Welcome Bonus package applies to this role.
  
  

The Welcome Bonus is only available to candidates who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider Trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria (LSC) Integrated Care System (ICS) in a like-for-like role or core profession. For example, a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner Role that requires the same profession.

These Trusts Are

• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust
• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  
  

Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met).

These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 6 months of employment. This bonus is applicable from 1st July 2024 – 31st January 2025.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr. Sarah Collinge Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number: