Senior Psychological Therapist

We are seeking a highly motivated Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join our Intensive Home Treatment Team (IHTT) at Airedale Centre for Mental Health. You will be passionate about supporting people experiencing acute mental health crisis, as well as their carers & support networks. The successful candidate will lead the development of psychological therapies within the team, supporting the Care Closer to Home agenda & national guidance for psychological therapies in acute services. You will promote psychologically informed care through formulation-based approaches to care planning & risk management. As part of a supportive network of psychologists, psychological therapists & psychotherapists working across Acute Community Services, you will contribute to improving access to trauma-informed & neuroaffirmative care and reducing health inequalities across Bradford & Craven. Working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will provide reflective practice, consultation & clinical supervision, while helping strengthen co-production with Involvement Workers & Experts by Experience. You will deliver a range of adapted, time-limited, evidence-informed interventions. Previous training or experience in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) would be advantageous. The role includes providing specialist advice & consultation to staff supporting people in mental health crisis.

• Provide specialist evidence based psychological assessment, formulation & therapy, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, consultation and advice on psychological therapies
• Provide clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across all localities.
• Support adherence to relevant NICE guidance and clinical governance arrangements.
• To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
• Work with the Team/Clinical Manager on service development, leading research and development activities Closing Date: 15th October 2026 Shortlisting Date: w/c 19th October 2026 Interview Date: TBC 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: Laura Turner Job title: Team Leader Email address: Laura.Turner@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07525885303 For Further Details / Informal Visits Contact Laura Turner - IHTT Airedale Team Leader Laura.Turner@bdct.nhs.uk Faye Pilling - Clinical Manager faye.pilling@bdct.nhs.uk Ina Ashworth - Clinical Psychologist Ina.Ashworth@bdct.nhs.uk