Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Non Medical Clinical Lead in Wakefield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Non Medical Clinical Lead

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate, motivated Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join the leadership triumvirate for Assessment & Treatment Services across West Yorkshire and Barnsley, delivering specialist inpatient care for people with a learning disability.

Our ambition is to develop a West Yorkshire Centre of Excellence, delivering high-quality specialist inpatient care through a collaborative, trauma-informed approach, supporting people as close to home as possible.

As the non‑medical clinical lead, the Consultant Clinical Psychologist will work alongside the Programme Lead & Medical Lead to support service development at local and strategic levels. The role includes leadership & governance responsibilities for psychological practitioners and the wider MDT, 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.

Job Purpose Includes

• Provide specialist, evidence-based psychological therapies, making autonomous clinical decisions within own scope of practice.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, consultation and specialist advice on psychological therapies and psychological aspects of care.
• Lead service and policy review, development and specialist teaching in psychological therapies across the West Yorkshire Assessment and Treatment Unit (WY ATU).
• Take lead responsibility for the development and implementation of NICE-compliant psychological interventions within the WY ATU.
• Ensure clinical effectiveness by leading audit, service evaluation, research and service improvement activities relevant to the WY ATU.
• Provide specialist psychological advice to the Programme Lead on service development.
• Act as an Approved Clinician for identified service users and/or work towards Approved Clinician status.
• Work as part of the WY ATU leadership triumvirate to influence strategic direction, ensure clinical engagement, and deliver high-quality services with robust governance, reporting to the WY ATU Strategic Partnership Group.

As Non-Medical Clinical Lead, The Post Holder Will Also

• Lead the non-medical workforce in relation to the strategic direction of inpatient and community learning disability services across West Yorkshire.
• Work alongside triumvirate colleagues to embed quality, safety and continuous improvement across the clinical pathway.

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

Flexible working arrangements, increased mileage rates for >3500, wide range of health and wellbeing support packages, internal and external development and learning opportunities, and more.

BDCFT is proud to pledge support to the Armed Forces and holds a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

Application Details

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.

Closing Date: 31st January 2026

Shortlisting Date: Week commencing 2nd February 2026

Interview Date: TBC

For further details / informal visits contact: Dr Anita Brewin, Chief Psychological Professions Officer, Email: anita.brewin@bdct.nhs.uk, Tel: 07738977326. Or please contact Suzanne Hall, Programme of Programme, Email: suzanne.hall@bdct.nhs.uk.