Job summary
Closing date: 10th August 2025.
Shortlisting to take place: Commencing 11th August 2025.
Interviews to be held: 4th September 2025.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative early career psychologist to join our warm and friendly Clinical Health Psychology department in Bradford working in the Cochlear Implant Service.
The post is to lead a regional specialist service under the supervision of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with lots of potential to shape and innovate. This is a highly supportive and active national network of psychologists working in this field of Cochlear Implants. This role provides an opportunity to work directly with patients on difficulties such as preparation for implants and adjustment using evidence-based psychological therapies. As a Clinical Psychologist embedded within the team there will be opportunities to input into psychological informed care with the healthcare team.
There will be regular opportunities to review your needs at work and we actively develop spaces for colleagues to connect and develop. We will consider applications from qualified Clinical Psychologists looking for an 8a role and also trainee Clinical Psychologists looking for Preceptorship positions. We have a budget for CPD and you will have access to regular clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist psychology service to patients under the care of the Cochlear Implant Service. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy and to offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, and to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. Work will be undertaken across a range of care sectors. To utilize research skills to inform practice, contribute to audit, and for research.
The area of service for this post will cover clinical health psychology referrals for pre and post Cochlear Implanted adult region wide.
The Adult psychology service is split into two clusters. The post-holders will report directly to the Consultant Lead. There will also be some day to day reporting into key clinicians within the Cochlear Implant service.
The post holder will work with staff at all levels within the organization and with relevant external agencies.
The post-holder will be a member of Clinical Health Psychology Services within the Trust and will be expected to work within the philosophy and ethos of the department which is to work psychologically in a client-centered, flexible and innovative way to improve healthcare. In order to best meet the needs of the Clinical Heath Psychology services there will be some flexibility around the work undertaken
About us
The successful applicant will also be part of the Clinical Health Psychology Department at St Luke's Hospital in Bradford as part of a multi-professional psychological therapies service for Adult Health, Neuropsychology and Paediatrics.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for a detailed list of the roles and responsibilities of the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for a detailed list of the roles and responsibilities of the post.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide range of people, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and residential care settings.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, exercising full clinical responsibility.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with people with physical health/ disability and/or complex health needs
- Experience of working with people with hearing impairment
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Or in the final year of studies for this qualification.
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or eligible for registration on completion of D.Clin. Psych.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, highly technical, contentious or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- High level of analytical and judgement skills with ability to understand complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison.
- High level ability to form and maintain collaborative professional relationships with colleagues across all levels.
- Skills in planning and organising activities (e.g. groups); skills in planning, organising and managing own workload.
- Ability to work in a complex and changing environment; demonstrable ability to work under pressure and according to changing priorities and service needs.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
- Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues.
- Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
- Understanding of legal and ethical issues relating to clinical practice.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable
- Comprehensive understanding of current NHS issues and context, organisational structures, policy, strategic planning and clinical governance.
- Knowledge of the culture and demographics of the local community
Other Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrable interest in working with people with health conditions including hearing loss
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- The role involves frequent intense concentration, frequent distressing or emotional circumstances, challenging behaviour and occasional exposure to unpleasant conditions.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to undertake research, audit and evaluation activity as necessary to own work and that of the service.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide range of people, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and residential care settings.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, exercising full clinical responsibility.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with people with physical health/ disability and/or complex health needs
- Experience of working with people with hearing impairment
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Or in the final year of studies for this qualification.
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or eligible for registration on completion of D.Clin. Psych.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, highly technical, contentious or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- High level of analytical and judgement skills with ability to understand complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison.
- High level ability to form and maintain collaborative professional relationships with colleagues across all levels.
- Skills in planning and organising activities (e.g. groups); skills in planning, organising and managing own workload.
- Ability to work in a complex and changing environment; demonstrable ability to work under pressure and according to changing priorities and service needs.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
- Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues.
- Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
- Understanding of legal and ethical issues relating to clinical practice.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable
- Comprehensive understanding of current NHS issues and context, organisational structures, policy, strategic planning and clinical governance.
- Knowledge of the culture and demographics of the local community
Other Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrable interest in working with people with health conditions including hearing loss
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- The role involves frequent intense concentration, frequent distressing or emotional circumstances, challenging behaviour and occasional exposure to unpleasant conditions.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to undertake research, audit and evaluation activity as necessary to own work and that of the service.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
