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Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Lead Practitioner Psychologist to provide leadership in Specialist Palliative Care. The role requires significant experience in health psychology and the capability to manage a team, ensuring high-quality psychological care across various settings. This position offers the opportunity to influence and develop psychological services while working within a collaborative multi-disciplinary team.
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The closing date is 16 July 2025
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 17.07.25
Interview expected to take place 04.08.25
We are looking for an experienced psychological professional with considerable adult health psychology and service leadership experience. The post is to oversee the delivery of psychological therapy in Specialist Palliative Care and be embedded as part of a well-respected and valued clinical multi-disciplinary team. Alongside direct clinical work, a key component of the role is to provide leadership, case-consultation, supervision, and training to the wider team. Psychological approaches are highly valued by the multi-disciplinary team and the role provides many opportunities to make a difference to the lives of people who live in Bradford, where significant health and social challenges present.
The successful applicant will also have a strong interest in contributing to the strategic development of palliative care psychology for Bradford but also regionally and nationally, at a time when a great deal of change of innovation is taking place. In Clinical Health Psychology we currently have 36 clinical staff including Clinical and Health Psychologists, Counsellors and Social Workers working across a variety of specialties in our supportive and friendly department. The role will involve some line management and supervision of clinicians who work in the adult service as well a contributing to the leadership activities of the department.
To provide professional psychology leadership and management and strategic development for the Clinical Health Psychology Service in Specialist Palliative Care for Bradford and surrounding areas.
To provide highly specialist clinical care to patients and carers receiving Specialist Palliative Care and to lead a team of psychological therapists in the service. To supervise other psychological and non-psychology staff as required. To work closely with Bradford and District Specialist Palliative Care agencies through attending service and multi disciplinary meetings and through providing teaching, training and consultation to wider teams. To liaise with the relevant regional and national organisations in the strategic development of high quality psychological services for palliative care.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policy and procedures; also utilising research skills to inform practice, and contributing to audit and for research.
To contribute to the strategic leadership and operational management of the broader Clinical Health Psychology service at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team, to carry and out and contribute audit, policy and service developments and research activities. The ensure department-wide Clinical Governance compliance as agreed with the Head of Department.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for more detail.
The post-holder will be a member of the Clinical Health Psychology Department within BTHFT and will be expected to work within the philosophy and ethos of the department which is to work psychologically in a client-centred, flexible and innovative way to improve healthcare.
The post-holder will lead and line manage a team of qualified and training psychological therapists in the delivery of high quality psychological healthcare.
The postholder will be expected to work in a variety of settings throughout BTHFT (both acute and community settings) and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and frameworks and will be required to work with teams under a high degree of stress. Specifically, the post holder will be based at St Luke's Hospital alongside Clinical Health Psychology colleagues whilst working out to other locations in Bradford and surrounding areas. The postholder will deliver the clinical service in Palliative Care in a variety of locations; outpatient clinics at St Lukes Hospital, at the Bradford Marie Curie Hospice, on inpatient wards at the hospitals within BTHFT and in patient's homes. A range of psychological support will be provided including direct psychological assessments and interventions; face to face and remotely, consultation, education, teaching, and training.
The postholder will be expected to provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to individuals, managers and teams, to promote the understanding of psychological approaches, both theoretically and practically, to support high quality psychological care across the service across the healthcare system.
To offer teaching, training and supervision of Clinical Psychologists and other Psychological Therapy professionals.
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 Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust