Clinical Psychologist (7-8a preceptorship considered)


Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Preston, PR3 2JH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	4 Aug 2026
Closing date:	3 Sept 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

We are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an 8a Clinical Psychologist to work across the Forensic Outreach Service (FOS) and the Forensic Community Mental Health Team (FCMHT). Both of these teams form part of the Community Business Unit at Guild Park. The Forensic Outreach service provides a consultancy service to local services who manage cases where there are significant risk concerns. The FCMHT is a multi-disciplinary team whose task is to ensure safe and lasting transitions for service users moving on from secure inpatient care into the community. The post holder would be joining experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary teams as well as a supportive group of psychology colleagues.

The role requires the post holder to have the ability to work with clients who present with the full range of clinical needs and risk behaviours, and the ability to engage with, and respond to, highly complex clinical, professional and ethical challenges, and demands on clinicians and services. There will also be opportunities to use audit and evaluation to inform and develop practice and service provision.

Other aspects of the psychology role would include:

• Providing risk formulation based psychological advice to the team

• Implementing direct psychological intervention with service users managed by the team

• Providing formal consultation and reflective space to MDT practitioners

• Undertaking joint working with other key stakeholders including the Community Mental Health Teams and inpatient services within LSCFT’s Adult Mental Health Network in managing high risk and complexity of need.

• Consulting with referrers in order to work towards building comprehensive risk formulations with which to guide recommendations to the referring team;

• Providing psychologically informed guidance to other FOS team practitioners that are from Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Social Work disciplines

• Model alternative approaches and solutions through direct working with service users that have been referred.

As part of the wider Psychological Services Team, the post holder will be supported to and expected to develop expertise in all aspects of forensic/clinical practice across the different services within Guild Park.

We would welcome applications for individuals considering taking up this post as the preceptorship/development post at band 7-8a. The post holder will be expected to reach the set of competencies expected of a Clinical/Forensic/ Counselling Psychologist working at 8a within an agreed time frame in order to make the transition to the higher grade.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

Should you be interested in this role or wish to discuss aspects of the role further we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact either Rebecca Brockhouse – Rebecca.Brockhouse@lscft.nhs.uk or Rabia Zeb – Rabia.Zeb@lscft.nhs.uk for more information.

This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Aug 2026

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