Lead Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

Lead Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

We offer an exciting opportunity to a clinical psychologist or psychological therapist to undertake two distinct roles:

• To work as a Cognitive Therapist in our Staff Support and Therapy Services (0.5wte), supporting the mental health needs and recovery of our employees. The post holder will actively contribute to the whole range of service offers provided and support the service's ongoing development.
• To support the roll out of trauma informed care principles across the trust but with a particular focus on enhancing the trauma sensitive work of our frontline staff across mental health services. This role is a workforce development lead role (0.5wte) and will work alongside our existing post holder.

If you're hardworking and committed to providing and developing quality trauma informed services this role could well be for you. The post holder will be actively supported in both aspects of the role and development opportunities can be made available.

Interview date: TBC

Main duties of the job

1. Provide evidence based psychological therapy (specifically cognitive behavioural therapy), making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
2. Provide clinical supervision, consultation and advice on psychological therapies and psychological elements of care.
3. Assist the Team Manager/Clinical Lead with operational duties and service development, including research and development activities.
4. The post holder will be responsible for supporting the workforce across the Trust, developing and providing high quality Trauma Informed Care training, and learning and development interventions to support the Trust's mission, values, and strategic objectives, including to be recognised as a Trauma Informed Organisation.
5. The post holder will consult with key stakeholders including those with lived experience of adversity & trauma around trauma training requirement; scope learning opportunities, coordinate and facilitate a train the trainer's model and support online event coordination to share learning.

About us

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.

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 > 3500
• 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.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

Right to Work in the UK
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status. Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trust's eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period. As a condition of continuous employment, it is essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctorate level training in clinical or applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies (one of which must be CBT) and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence.
• OR Specialist post graduate training to masters level or equivalent in a psychotherapeutic modality (specifically CBT) AND Accreditation from a recognized Psychological Therapy body e.g. BABCP.
• Leadership training.
• Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Experience in relevant mental health setting (including working with complexity).
• Experience of delivering groups.
• Experience working within a trauma informed framework.

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.

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata