Principal Clinical Psychologist (Community Rehabilitation Team)

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Principal Clinical Psychologist with expertise in neuropsychology to join our newly developed Community Rehabilitation Team. This innovative service supports Community Mental Health Services across Bradford and Craven, with a particular focus on individuals living with complex psychosis.

You will provide specialist, evidence-based psychological assessment and therapy, making autonomous clinical decisions while offering strong clinical and professional leadership. Working as part of a diverse, supportive, and developing multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to service development, supervision, consultation, teaching, and research, helping to shape high-quality, trauma-informed and culturally responsive care.

The successful candidate will hold a doctoral qualification in clinical or applied psychology, be HCPC registered, and have significant post-qualification experience, including specialist training in neuropsychology or a related therapeutic modality. You will bring a commitment to NICE guidance, clinical governance, reflective practice, and reducing health inequalities, alongside a passion for developing staff and services.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping a growing community service and improving outcomes for people with complex mental health needs.

Closing Date: 11th May 2026

Shortlisting Date: W/C 12th May 2026

Interview Date: TBC

The successful candidate will be experienced working with adults with complex mental health needs (particularly those experiencing psychosis) and familiar with working through a trauma informed and culturally sensitive lens to understand what has happened to people and ways to alleviate their distress. The Clinical Psychologist (with neuropsychological expertise, ideally evidenced by a Masters degree or PG Dip/PG cert in clinical neuropsychology) will form a key component of the Community Rehabilitation Team, providing consultation, specialist assessment, formulation & intervention as well as training, supervision & reflective spaces for the wider team and teams supporting CRT's clients, wherever they are based. We welcome innovation, creativity and holistic ways of working to meet the needs of our diverse communities.

We welcome your application and any questions you may have.

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 > 4500

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: Anita Brewin Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist/CPPO Email address: anita.brewin@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07738977326