Lead Psychological Therapist/ Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist inBradford inBradford PUBLISHED 18 AUG 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen with scope for training and development in our Acute Inpatient Service.

As part of this you will provide evidence based psychological therapy, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.

Provide clinical supervision, consultation and advice on psychological therapies and psychological elements of care.Assist the Clinical Lead and Pathway Leads with service development, including research and development activities.

Work with other members of the multi disciplinary team to provide holistic care and understanding for service users through team discussions, formulations, consultations, joint work and training.

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 (including clinical risk), implementation and evaluation of therapy and formulation.
• Supervise and support Assistant Psychologists and other health care professionals.
• Support the delivery of psychological skills based interventions to service users on the wards.
• 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-centered
• 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.
• To complete Routine Outcome Monitoring as required by service area in a timely and meaningful fashion.
• 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.
  

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


Benefits


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.


Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.




For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clea Beanland Job title: Clinical Lead for Inpatient Psychology Email address:

Dr Anita Brewin

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Deputy Director of Professions (Chief Psychological Professions