Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioner

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioners to work across Community Mental Health Teams in Bradford, AireWharfe and Craven, in collaboration with MDT colleagues. These specialist roles demand advanced knowledge and trauma-informed, recovery-focused practice to manage complex emotional needs with a multi-agency approach.

Closing date 27 September 2026; interviews 7 October 2026.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of development and treatment of complex emotional needs.
• Trauma-informed recovery approach to care.
• Ability to work collaboratively across services in a multi-agency context.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across localities.
• Support adherence to NICE guidance.
• Develop and implement multi-agency care plans for individuals across services.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of our Complex Emotional Needs Pathway development. We are seeking a Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioners to work across our Community Mental Health Teams in Bradford, AireWharfe and Craven alongside other professionals in the MDT.

The posts are specialist roles requiring an advanced level of knowledge about the development and treatment of complex emotional needs. Working in a trauma-informed recovery focused way, the successful candidates will work in collaboration across services to ensure an individualised, multi-agency approach to care and support.

Closing date: 27th September 2026

Shortlisting date: W/C 28th September 2026

Interview date: 7th October 2026 (Subject to change)

• To bring a person-centred, trauma-informed and individualised approach to ensure appropriate treatment and clinical management of people with complex emotional needs by supporting the development of multi-agency care plans
• To ensure that barriers to effective care are challenged, overcome and analysed, options compared and reviewed to agree the best way forward.
• To facilitate the development of a coherent care plan for individuals who present across a number of different services (Community Mental Health Teams, crisis services, Police, Ambulance and voluntary services etc.) are enacted as agreed
• To provide clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across all localities.
• To support adherence to relevant NICE guidance
• To maintain clinical skills by delivering direct clinical care in line with evidenced based practice such as DBT or SCM

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increase mileage rates for > 4500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eva Costoya Job title: Programme Manager Clinical Support Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07739627807