Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Principal Clinical Psychologist - Older Adults

The closing date is 30 November 2025

Job summary

Base/Location: Brookside Retirement Village, Ormskirk, Lancashire

Up to 26.25 hrs - Band 8b

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist with experience and enthusiasm to work with our friendly, supportive and psychologically minded Older Persons Integrated Mental Health Team in West Lancashire. The postholder will provide the team with highly specialist consultation sessions alongside delivering direct therapeutic interventions to our West Lancashire Older Adult service users.

The postholder will also be integral in providing guidance and direction to the team and other agencies who are working with highly complex older adult service users and will be expected to lead and chair complex case meetings, psychological case formulation forums (CCCF's), professional meetings etc as required.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership to the team and also work closely with the Older Adult Principal Clinical Psychologist within the Central Lancashire locality to ensure a high-quality psychological services are provided and delivered across both West and Central Lancashire.

We are looking for someone committed to multi-disciplinary team working who can provide professional and clinical leadership to our psychology and non-psychology colleagues. The role will also involve taking trainees on placement, supervising non-psychology colleagues, teaching, training, reflective practice sessions and supporting psychological well-being within the team.

Main duties of the job

The post is professionally attached to the locality older adult psychology team and wider network, both of which offer a friendly and supportive space, with a strong commitment to providing quality services for older people in Lancashire.

The Trust is also committed to staff development and have invested in on-going training and development opportunities including funding recent further therapy training and leadership courses. The postholder would receive regular clinical and professional supervision from the 8C Older Adult Locality Lead Clinical Psychologist. There is also an Older Adult 8b peer supervision group that the post holder would be expected to attend.

Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that the postholder has significant experience of working with the Older Adult population. Although not essential, it is also desirable that the post holder has additional qualifications/skills or be willing to complete training in specific psychological interventions, for example, EMDR, compassion-focused therapy; ACT, trauma focused work etc

For further information please contact us using the details provided

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

Date posted

14 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

351-CEN2367-EB

Job locations

Brookside Retirement Clinic

Ormskirk

L39 3BP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

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.
Significant experience of working within Older Adult Psychology or similar at a Senior level

Knowledge

Essential

Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Knowledge of legislation, and its implications in relation to the client group and mental health
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan

Person Specification

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.
Significant experience of working within Older Adult Psychology or similar at a Senior level

Knowledge

Essential

Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Knowledge of legislation, and its implications in relation to the client group and mental health
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brookside Retirement Clinic

Ormskirk

L39 3BP

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brookside Retirement Clinic

Ormskirk

L39 3BP

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)