Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
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Exciting Opportunity: Leadership Role in Community Learning Disabilities Service
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the leadership team of our community learning disabilities service, covering the current post holder's maternity leave for 1 year. The Consultant Clinical Psychologist will work alongside the operational and professional leads to support service development. The role includes leadership & governance responsibilities for psychological practitioners in the community learning disabilities service, ensuring safe, effective practice & staff development.
The successful candidate will have experience working with people with complex learning disabilities & mental health needs, including behaviours that challenge, using evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches to reduce distress & promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
Key Dates
- Closing Date: 12th October 2026
- Shortlisting Date: 13th October 2026
- Interview Date: TBC
Job Purpose
To act independently and use own initiative within appropriate operational guidelines and service protocols; deciding where necessary to refer to the Service Manager.
- To act independently and use own initiative within appropriate occupational and clinical guidelines; deciding where necessary to refer to the CPPO.
- Provide specialist evidence-based psychological therapy, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, consultation and advice on psychological therapies and psychological elements of care.
- Provide clinical leadership, lead service/policy review and development, specialist teaching and advice on psychological therapy for a designated service area.
- Take lead responsibility for the development and implementation of NICE compliant psychological therapies within a designated service area.
- To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by leading research and development activities relevant to the service area.
- Provide specialist advice to the Service Manager on service development.
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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:
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- 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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Anita Brewin
- Job title: Chief Psychological Professions Officer
- Email address: anita.brewin@bdct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07738977326
Or please contact Sarah Henry, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead of Psychological Services for people with a Learning Disability on: Sarah.Henry@bdct.nhs.uk.
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