Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.