Senior Psychological Therapist/Clinical Psychologist
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford, BD1 2EP
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
20 September 2026
17 days left
Job description
Senior Psychological Therapist/Psychologist - Future Focus Team Lead Permanent position, Band 8a Full time. 37.5 hours per week, Future Focus is an in...
- Provide specialist evidence based psychological therapy, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, consultation and advice on psychological therapies.
- Provide clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across all localities.
- Support adherence to relevant NICE guidance and clinical governance arrangements.
- To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
- Lead service development, supporting research and development activities.
- Provide operational management to those in the Future Focus team.
- Meet required clinical outcomes as identified nationally/ by commissioners.
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 partnersWe 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical or applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies 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 - including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Systemic Therapy AND Accreditation from a recognised Psychological Therapy body e.g. BABCP, BACP, UKCP, HCPC via: (a) Professional route; requiring previous mental health qualification e.g. Clin. Psych., RMN, Dip. SW. or (b) where applicable, the KSA (knowledge, skills and attitude) route (e.g. with the BABCP).
Training
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in relevant area of mental health practise
- Application of evidenced based specialist psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.
- Application of specialist psychological therapy within individual and group modalities
- Experience of leadership, teaching, training and supervision
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Significant post qualification experience and training in additional modalities
- Experience delivering psychological therapies to patients with complex difficulties
- Experience of working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Clinical leadership experience, experience in service development and evaluation
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
2 September 2026
Last checked
3 September 2026
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