Job summary
- Main area
- West/ NorthWest Community Mental Health Service
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 173-40425-COMM
- Employer
- Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Marys Hospital
- Town
- Leeds
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/10/2025
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist or Senior Psychotherapist/ CBT Therapist
Band 8A
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Clinical Psychologist/ senior Psychotherapist/ CBT Therapist. We are looking for 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 including community, outpatient and inpatient 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, providing support, collecting outcome measures utilising leadership skills whilst continuing to develop yourself. This will also include provision of supervision, teaching, supporting audits, providing space for reflection via clinical case discussion, having knowledge of mental health legislation in the relevant area, and taking a lead on specific areas of the team/ service development.
Main duties of the job
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.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 a wide range of theoretical approaches from at least two specialised psychological 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 to the wider team.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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 criteria
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology (or equivalent prior to 1995) and registration as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC OR Doctorate level training in Forensic Psychology with HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist. OR At least Post-Graduate diploma qualification in Cognitive behavioural therapy with practitioner accreditation / Full accreditation audit status by the BABCP as a CBT therapist and with a prior core profession or through the Knowledge skills and attitude portfolio route. OR Masters Level qualification in Psychotherapy (Systemic, Psychoanalytic, integrative ) and accreditation with the UKCP as a Psychotherapist, or by the British Psychoanalytic council.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing a range of interventions across care settings, including for severe and enduring mental health issues.
- Training and experience in the supervision of psychological professionals
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills and experience in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least 2 specialised psychological therapies used to treat working age adults. Leadership experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Squires
- Job title
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- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07790891936
- Additional information
Helen Jenkinson - 07980957048 - [email protected]
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