Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide evidence based (see NICE CG 82 & CG 178) Psychological Therapy to individuals aged 18 - 35 and deemed to be 'vulnerable to' or 'at risk of' developing psychosis, across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven districts
• Making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation and advice on psychological therapies.
• Assist the Team Managers and Clinical Lead with service development, including research and development activities

For full details read the job specification

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Formal qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Clinical Psychology (including a substantial training component in cognitive behavioural therapy).
• Accreditation (or working towards accreditation) with the relevant professional body, including through non-professional route (the position would be offered at a band 6 until accredited).

Experience
Essential criteria

• Experience of working with adults with mental health problems, including psychosis and/or experience of Early Intervention in Psychosis.
• Experience of utilising the Care Program Approach & risk management.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of taking lead roles in clinical practice/service development.
• Experience delivering psychological therapies to groups of patients.
• Experience in applying specialist psychological therapies.
• Experience in service development and/or research.

The Covid-19 vaccination remains the best line of defence against Covid-19 to protect individuals, colleagues, patients, and communities, and the Trust encourages staff to take up the offer of being fully vaccinated. Please note all staff members who are working in healthcare premises, working with patients/service users and/or undertaking patient/service user visits will be required to take a twice weekly Lateral Flow Test, and to produce evidence of their negative test result on request.

If you have any concerns about whether this affects your eligibility to undertake a role with the Trust, you may wish to contact the recruiting manager to discuss this further. Staff are able to order LFT kits through the Government website free of charge.

Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual's needs.

The Trust's purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: - We Care, We Listen, We Deliver

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 would welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and in particular Bradford District Care Trust is keen to reflect the population we serve, we are currentlyunderrepresentedin terms of black and minority ethnic staff. Applications are encouraged from thesegroups,but it must be stressed that selection will be solely on merit and in accordance with the Trust recruitment policy.

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and homes lives and support staff by