Principal Clinical Psychologist | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Salary:	£66,582 - £77,368 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Whalley, BB7 9PE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Aug 2026
Closing date:	11 Sept 2026

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Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Principal Clinical Psychologist to join the team/service within Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT). We require a motivated and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to join our growing team offering input to adult mental health inpatient facilities within Pennine Lancashire locality.

Opened in early 2023, the Woodview Unit is a recently refurbished building on the Whalley site which has a total of 32 beds including 12 Male, 12 Female and an 8 bedded Male PICU unit. These additional beds complement those on the Pendleview Unit, Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Woodview Unit was designed with extensive input from service users and clinicians and is based on ‘safety by design’ to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the unit is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person-centred and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence.

We want people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute to the demonstrated effectiveness and acceptability of our service.

The post holder will be responsible for providing confident, experienced clinical and managerial input. This will include the following within a multi disciplinary team. To provide a qualified and experienced Clinical Psychology Service to service users of the Whalley, Woodview Unit including the provision of enhanced specialist psychological assessment and intervention with complex cases.

To offer advice and consultation on service user’s psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. To provide wider clinical leadership across both Woodview site and reaching into Pendleview site. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area in which the post holder works.

You would be joining a wider team of Pennine Lancashire clinical psychologists that includes, Senior Psychologists, and a Consultant Psychology Lead. Assistant psychologists are also employed on a fixed term basis and the post would be required to contribute to professional leadership of these posts. In addition to the direct input, consultation and wider clinical leadership, as a Principal Psychologist there would be expectation for the post holder to deputise for the Consultant Psychology Lead as appropriate.

We are committed to providing the best development opportunities for our staff and the post holder would have the option to pursue their Continuing Professional Development (CPD), agreed post qualification development and training in their desired area of specialism or theoretical approach which the Trust would actively seek to support.

There are also opportunities to build research interests within this dynamic and forward thinking service. The organisation has good links with local Doctorate courses and there would be an expectation of supporting trainees as part of this role.

We are very willing to consider funding training in development of skills and further qualifications in relevant treatment approaches that will benefit inpatient psychology service provision.

LSCFT is an organisation that recognises and values the contribution of clinical psychology in the provision of high quality services as evidenced by the expansion of the profession within in patient services. Psychology provision within inpatient services is established, well regarded and highly valued.

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

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 26 Aug 2026

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