Job overview

We are excited to be offering this opportunity for a clinical psychologist/ lead psychological therapist to join the Bradford District and Craven Integrated Rehabilitation Pathway.
 
The Integrated Rehabilitation Service is an experienced, supportive multidisciplinary team leading the way in complex rehabilitation delivery. We provide a holistic service putting self-management and rehabilitation at the centre of the care, supporting people with management of Fatigue, Breathing Pattern Disorders, Stress, Pain, Symptoms of Dysautonomia. We support a mixture of home, virtual and out-patient clinic-based working with a personalised approach to patient care, providing individual and/or group sessions.
 
As a team we are consistently striving to innovate and improve to achieve the best for people using our services. We welcome and encourage staff at all levels to contribute to service development. We are committed to supporting you to build your clinical rehabilitation skills in symptom-based management and Vocational Rehabilitation.
 
You will have the opportunity to run and continue the development of group-based interventions alongside 1:1 work with patients for a more individualised psychological assessment and formulation based on a biopsychosocial model where required.

Closing date: 13/06/2025

Shortlisting date: 17/06/2025

Interview date: TBC

Main duties of the job

·       Work with autonomous professional judgement, together with other psychological therapists, to deliver evidence-based therapy to individual and groups of patients.

·       Manage a designated caseload of patients with responsibility for their assessment, implementation and evaluation of therapy. 

·       Supervise and support Lead/Psychological Therapists.

·       Proactively contribute to the achievement of positive clinical outcomes. This will include conducting evaluations using clinical outcome measures and satisfaction surveys.

·       Communicate effectively with patients, relatives/carers and colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a manner that is sensitive, open, welcoming and person-centred.

- Act as a mentor to students, support newly qualified staff and be responsible for implementing the appraisal process.

- Use IT systems effectively.

- Maintain accurate, up to date clinical records in accordance with Trust policy.

- Provide clinical leadership to the Psychological Therapists.

- Support the Team Manager with operational duties, including appraisal,  caseload management and providing cover in the absence of the Team Manager.

- Delegate  tasks  to   staff  within  their  competency  and   ensure  that the delegation/escalation process forms part of the culture of the service.

Flexible working patterns will be considered for the role and can be discussed on an individual basis.

Working for our organisation

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 partners
 
We 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.