Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join Leeds Community and Wellbeing services. We have already embarked on the first phase of service transformation in line with the NHS long-term plan. Successful evaluation of this phase has meant that we can progress citywide rollout to ensure full transformation of community services in 2025.
We are investing significantly in psychological profession utilising interventions and how we strengthen a system of care which is psychologically informed. We have a range of opportunities for training and development, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Our collective aim is to achieve greater integration between secondary and primary mental health services, along with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector to provide better and more equitable care. We're passionate about having people who use our services, their families and carers more involved in the care provisions we deliver.
This post offers a hybrid working model, with a maximum of 1-2 days working from home, working on site regulally is encouraged.
Main duties of the job
Leeds community mental health services are multi-disciplinary groups of professionals working together to provide specialist community-focused mental health services to working age adults. Psychological practitioners are a much valued and integral part of this work, providing specialist assessment and interventions, and also contributing to the clinical thinking and decision making of the teams. Alongside direct clinical work, a key component of their role is to provide supervision, consultation, and training tothe wider team.
Please see our Therapies Strategy for Transformation of Community Services.
We are keen to recruit people with experience, knowledge and skills of working with severe and enduring mental health difficulties such as complex trauma, psychosis, interpersonal difficulties, and self-harm. Equally important are leadership skills and the ability to develop innovative practice. We are looking for people who can contribute to the vision for the service, working closely with colleagues in different parts of the system, including primary care and our valued voluntary sector partners. A key part of this role is to provide clinical supervision to other psychology professionals within the team.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To deliver evidence based psychological therapies with community and wellbeing service settings.
To be a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering psychological thinking and consultation.
To deliver clinical and therapy supervision to other psychological professions.
To be part of a developing, trauma informed community mental health care for service users (SUs) and carers accessing Adult Community & Wellbeing Services. This includes;
Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and delivering evidence based psychological therapies.
Contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings offering advice and consultation on SUs psychological care to clinical colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, and facilitating case formulation and discussion groups.
To contribute to service development by utilising research skills for audit, service development and research within the service area.
To provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility working towards the delivery of clinical supervision to other psychological professionals.
To deliver supervision to other psychological professionals.
This is an exciting time to be joining this service as we develop significant service expansion, in line with the NHS long-term plan and the national programme of community mental health transformation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To deliver evidence based psychological therapies with community and wellbeing service settings.
To be a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering psychological thinking and consultation.
To deliver clinical and therapy supervision to other psychological professions.
To be part of a developing, trauma informed community mental health care for service users (SUs) and carers accessing Adult Community & Wellbeing Services. This includes;
Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and delivering evidence based psychological therapies.
Contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings offering advice and consultation on SUs psychological care to clinical colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, and facilitating case formulation and discussion groups.
To contribute to service development by utilising research skills for audit, service development and research within the service area.
To provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility working towards the delivery of clinical supervision to other psychological professionals.
To deliver supervision to other psychological professionals.
This is an exciting time to be joining this service as we develop significant service expansion, in line with the NHS long-term plan and the national programme of community mental health transformation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- For Clinical & Counselling Psychologists: 1. Doctorate Level Training in Counselling or Clinical Psychology (or M.Sc if qualified prior to 1994). 2. HCPC registration. For CBT Therapists/ Psychotherapists: 1. At least Post Grad Diploma level qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy with Accreditation with BABCP and with a prior core profession or via KSA route. 2. Masters or above in a psychotherapy; accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience in relevant clinical practice, including assessment of risk.
- Formal training and experience in the supervision of psychological professionals
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- For Clinical & Counselling Psychologists: 1. Doctorate Level Training in Counselling or Clinical Psychology (or M.Sc if qualified prior to 1994). 2. HCPC registration. For CBT Therapists/ Psychotherapists: 1. At least Post Grad Diploma level qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy with Accreditation with BABCP and with a prior core profession or via KSA route. 2. Masters or above in a psychotherapy; accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience in relevant clinical practice, including assessment of risk.
- Formal training and experience in the supervision of psychological professionals
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
