Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Psychotherapist
The closing date is 25 May 2026
We are excited to invite compassionate and dedicated applicants for opportunities as a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist/CBT Psychotherapist or Psychotherapist post our Community Adult Mental Health Services, within which we have established membership from the psychological professions. The team works closely with other providers to ensure service users are accessing the right level of treatment and support.
This position is a part time (30 hours) temporary post for 12 months covering maternity leave within the South Locality, this could be appointed to as a fixed term or secondment opportunity.
Main duties of the job
The team supports service users with complex mental health presentations associated with a high level of intersectional difficulties.
We are looking for a motivated and skilled candidate, who is passionate to make a difference for our service users with complex mental health needs, is looking forward to work closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team, families and services users and is using a trauma informed approach to working with service users. The work involves working directly with service users as well as indirectly with other team members and agencies to support formulation driven care.
Care and interventions are mainly delivered via face-to-face appointments on site or in people's homes, as such some travel is required; however, some remote working will be required which can be done from site or from home if agreed.
We have excellent connections with the regional the D. Clin psych course, regularly providing placements to trainees. There is opportunity to develop skills through supported CPD activity, including further skills in supervision.
About us
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
- Working closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to provide psychological perspective and thinking to support care planning and trauma informed care approaches.
- Providing supervision and reflective spaces within and across the multidisciplinary team.
- Contributing to and supporting training initiatives to enhance psychological and trauma-informed approaches within the team, sharing your knowledge and best practice.
- Providing specialist evidence based psychological assessment, formulation and psychological therapy, whilst making autonomous clinical decisions about your own professional practice.
- Providing clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across the team where indicated.
- Supporting adherence to relevant NICE guidance and clinical governance arrangements.
- Ensuring the clinical effectiveness of your own practice and to support service functioning by contributing to relevant research and development activities relevant to the service area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) and HCPC registration; or postgraduate diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy and accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist, with either a prior core profession or via KSA route; or masters or above in a psychotherapy and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council).
Experience
- Experience of providing a range of intervention across care settings, including for complex or severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary.
Skills
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Values
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
£49,387 to £56,515 a yearPer Annum Pro Rata
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Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Psychotherapist
The closing date is 25 May 2026
We are excited to invite compassionate and dedicated applicants for opportunities as a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist/CBT Psychotherapist or Psychotherapist post our Community Adult Mental Health Services, within which we have established membership from the psychological professions. The team works closely with other providers to ensure service users are accessing the right level of treatment and support.
This position is a part time (30 hours) temporary post for 12 months covering maternity leave within the South Locality, this could be appointed to as a fixed term or secondment opportunity.
Main duties of the job
The team supports service users with complex mental health presentations associated with a high level of intersectional difficulties.
We are looking for a motivated and skilled candidate, who is passionate to make a difference for our service users with complex mental health needs, is looking forward to work closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team, families and services users and is using a trauma informed approach to working with service users. The work involves working directly with service users as well as indirectly with other team members and agencies to support formulation driven care.
Care and interventions are mainly delivered via face-to-face appointments on site or in people’s homes, as such some travel is required; however, some remote working will be required which can be done from site or from home if agreed.
We have excellent connections with the regional the D. Clin psych course, regularly providing placements to trainees. There is opportunity to develop skills through supported CPD activity, including further skills in supervision.
About us
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
- Working closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to provide psychological perspective and thinking to support care planning and trauma informed care approaches.
- Providing supervision and reflective spaces within and across the multidisciplinary team.
- Contributing to and supporting training initiatives to enhance psychological and trauma-informed approaches within the team, sharing your knowledge and best practice.
- Providing specialist evidence based psychological assessment, formulation and psychological therapy, whilst making autonomous clinical decisions about your own professional practice.
- Providing clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across the team where indicated.
- Supporting adherence to relevant NICE guidance and clinical governance arrangements.
- Ensuring the clinical effectiveness of your own practice and to support service functioning by contributing to relevant research and development activities relevant to the service area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) and HCPC registration; or postgraduate diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy and accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist, with either a prior core profession or via KSA route; or masters or above in a psychotherapy and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council).
Experience
- Experience of providing a range of intervention across care settings, including for complex or severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary.
Skills
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Values
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
£49,387 to £56,515 a yearPer Annum Pro Rata
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