Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated Clinical Psychologist/ Psychotherapist/ CBT Therapist. An individual who has experience of working alongside therapists from different modalities providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment to clients across a range of care settings within a multi-disciplinary team. You will be expected to work with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect a full range of clinical severity and supporting adaptations for our diverse population in Leeds.
You will be expected to work collaboratively with the wider team, including primary care and voluntary sector services, collecting outcome measures, and become involved in project work to support ongoing service developments. Within the role we are looking for someone who will play are large role in supporting by helping the team deliver psychological information trauma information psychologically informed treatment. This includes supporting reflective practice, and clinical case discussions, and overseeing psychologically informed interventions.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an individual to support the creative development of the team, with awareness of clinical governance issues and structures and someone who values ensuring that we are providing the highest standard of care for the population we serve. Our expectation is for you to lead, by example, by drawing on your experiences within your psychological approach/ approaches with excellent communications skills that are adaptable clinically to support clients, their families and carers, families and colleagues within our partnership organisations.
Leeds community and wellbeing 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 along with the support.
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 a 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 individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and treatment plans, deliver therapeutic interventions for individual with complex mental health needs for our diverse population of Leeds. You will also play a role in supervising, training other psychologist and mental health professionals, contributing to service development, and promoting psychologically-informed approaches within the team and across the wider service.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and treatment plans, deliver therapeutic interventions for individual with complex mental health needs for our diverse population of Leeds. You will also play a role in supervising, training other psychologist and mental health professionals, contributing to service development, and promoting psychologically-informed approaches within the team and across the wider service.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996) with HCPC registration OR Masters or above in a psychotherapy, and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP, or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) OR Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy AND Accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist AND with either a prior core profession or via KSA route
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing a range of interventions across care settings, including for severe and enduring mental health issues.
Skills
Essential
- Willing to do additional training to provide supervision if not already completed
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 Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996) with HCPC registration OR Masters or above in a psychotherapy, and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP, or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) OR Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy AND Accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist AND with either a prior core profession or via KSA route
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing a range of interventions across care settings, including for severe and enduring mental health issues.
Skills
Essential
- Willing to do additional training to provide supervision if not already completed
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 Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation
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).
