The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 11 July 2025

Job summary

Mid Yorkshire NHS Teaching Trust has been awarded new funding to develop a specialist obesity service and extend the existing bariatric service to provide an improved, evidence-based service across Wakefield. It will also reduce inequalities by targeting priority groups in line with NICE guidelines.

The new Specialist Obesity and Bariatric Service will replace previous T3 and T4 services to provide a patient-centred, needs based service, which will allow seamless and more timely care for patients who require specialist interventions like bariatric surgery, injectable drugs and non-surgical weight-management programmes.

Non-surgical and surgical pathways will include clinical psychology, dietetic and physiotherapy interventions. Patients will be able to access all parts of the service that are appropriate for them, following multidisciplinary team (MDT) assessment and recommendations.

The service has been commissioned on a permanent basis, so we are looking to expand capacity in all areas of the service.

The Specialist Obesity and Bariatric Service has been commissioned to process 310 referrals annually with the aims of contributing to a long-term healthy weight strategy, reducing obesity in the Mid Yorkshire Region, and to improve health outcomes by lowering obesity-related disease risks and support increased life expectancy in Wakefield and North Kirklees.

Main duties of the job

Duties and responsibilities as laid out in the Job Description and determined via the annual Job Planning process. Please see Supporting Information.

Duties include:

-Clinical

- Teaching, training, support and supervision

- Service Development

- Research and Evaluation

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

24 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, Annualised hours

Reference number

000445

Job locations

Dewsbury District Hospital

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

WF13 4HS

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key requirements are described in the Person Specification. Please see Supporting Information.

Good Honours Degree (min 2:1) in Psychology

Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS

HCPC registration (or within six months of achieving HCPC registration) as a Clinical Psychologist with Chartered Status.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key requirements are described in the Person Specification. Please see Supporting Information.

Good Honours Degree (min 2:1) in Psychology

Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS

HCPC registration (or within six months of achieving HCPC registration) as a Clinical Psychologist with Chartered Status.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full job description (there is no obligation to submit an application)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full job description (there is no obligation to submit an application)

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.