Clinical Psychologist

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

We would welcome applications from those soon to be or recently qualified seeking a Band7 to 8a preceptorship agreement.
We are enthused by the commitment within the Older People and Frailty Division (OPFD) to the expansion of new psychological provision throughout our mental health and dementia pathways. This started with the appointment of two Consultant Clinical Psychologists, to complement an existing Consultant. The advertised posts have been designed to further service developments and continue to embed psychological ways of working within community teams. These roles provide a real opportunity to significantly shape the service provision and care for the older people of Lincolnshire.
The development in the last 6 months includes: creating trainee placements, establishing reflective practice sessions, registering as a site in national research regarding Compassion Focussed Therapy in Older People, obtaining funded training for existing LPFT staff to increase psychological provision, made cross-divisional links, and strong links with the Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP) wherein we are co-facilitating the 2025 FPOP conference, on top of the clinical endeavours expected from service provision.
If you are innovative, proactive and would like to work to trailblaze new provision, and, importantly, have a passion for working with older people then these new roles will ensure an exciting and satisfying remit and career potential.

Service development: projects, audit and service evaluation to enhance provision including Trauma Informed Care approaches, demonstration of the efficacy of treatment models and creating and maintaining relationships with neighbouring internal and external agencies to ensure psychological elements relevant to older people are constantly considered.

• Recruitment and supervision of growing numbers of psychological staff, and clinical support to non-psychology colleagues.
• Provision of placements for trainees from local DClinPsy, as well as other relevant courses.
• Client care: hold an independent caseload for specialist assessment, formulation and intervention (including augmented therapeutic input), provision of consultation, manage referrals and waiting list, and associated documentation relevant to client care.
• Maintain own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

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 a range 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 . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
Please note this vacancy may close early if there are sufficient applications.
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for complete details regarding this post. When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role requirements.
The CMHTs have not previously had substantive psychologists in post, and therefore these post holders will work with the Consultant leads to establish the remit of the roles and embed psychological ways of working throughout the teams.
This job will involve engaging team members in, and extolling the virtue of what can provided as an applied practitioner psychologist: training, supervision, consultation, reflective practice, formulation groups, joint assessment, as well the tailored provision of specialist psychological therapy where necessary on a 1:1, or group basis. Alongside the clinical work will be an expectation to support the service development activities of the Consultant with a view to further expanding psychological provision for older people with mental health difficulties and dementia throughout the county

Please refer the Job description for details