Job summary
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is excited to welcome an experienced Educator in Psychology to join our dynamic Psychotherapy team. This is a unique opportunity to work autonomously while collaborating closely with our Consultant Medical Psychotherapists to support and train resident doctors in meeting their Royal College of Psychiatrists' Psychotherapy competencies.
As our Educator in Psychology, you will play a key role in shaping the next generation of psychiatry professionals. Your responsibilities will include:
- Deliver high-quality clinical supervision and engaging seminars to Higher Psychiatry Trainees.
- Provide specialist, evidence-based psychological therapies, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Offer expert clinical leadership, consultation, and advice on psychological therapies across all localities.
- Support and guide healthcare professionals through your specialist expertise.
- Promote adherence to NICE guidelines and uphold clinical governance standards.
- Work alongside the Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy to support service development, teaching, research, and innovation.
Closing date: 25th February 2026
Shortlisting: 26th February 2026 onwards
Interviews likely to be early-mid March 2026
Main duties of the job
Some of the main duties will include:
To offer consultation and advice to mental health staff across the Trust with regards suitable referrals of patients for psychotherapy
To offer patients consultations to assess suitability for psychotherapy
To be aware of required levels of competency of Resident doctors and Psychotherapy aspect of Psychiatry curriculum
To work with Consultant medical psychotherapist/s to offer psychotherapy teaching seminars to Resident and Higher trainee grades
To organise and run supervision groups for resident doctors seeing their psychotherapy long cases.
To co- facilitate Balint groups
To be responsible for the timely completion of WPBA for resident doctors.
To ensure high standards of clinical governance practice of resident doctors ie overseeing risk assessments, note keeping, letters.
To recognise resident doctors' who are struggling in their work, professionally and personally and ensure they receive appropriate support.
To highlight to Consultant medical psychotherapist any trainees of concern.
Work with autonomous clinical judgement to manage a designated caseload of patients with responsibility for their assessment (including clinical risk), implementation and evaluation of therapy.
Delegate tasks to staff within their competency and ensure that the delegation/escalation process forms part of the culture of the service.
About us
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
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 > 3500
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.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Right to Work in the UK
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.
As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Right to Work in the UK
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.
As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in relevant area of mental health practise.
- Application of evidenced based specialist psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.
- Application of specialist psychological therapy within individual and group modality.
- Autonomous clinical practice and leadership experience
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
- Experience applying specialist psychological therapy to patients with complex difficulties
- Involvement in the development and provision of clinical teaching programmes.
- Experience of teaching and training novice psychotherapists
- Previous experience training Medical resident trainees
- Experience of attending Balint Society UK meetings
Qualifications
Essential
- Background degree level qualification in health related profession eg OT, SW, Clin psychol, RMN
- Specialist post graduate training to masters level or equivalent in a psychotherapeutic modality - including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Systemic Therapy, Group analytic Therapy AND Accreditation from a recognised Psychological Therapy body e.g. BABCP, BACP, UKCP via: Professional route; requiring previous mental health qualification e.g. (a) Clin.Psych., RMN, Dip. SW. or (b) Where applicable, the KSA (knowledge, skills and attitude) route (e.g. with the BABCP).
Desirable
- Undertaken post-qualification further training in a specialised area of psychological practice e.g. CAT, DIT, DBT, CBT, solution focused therapy, individual or group psychoanalytic psychotherapy; systemic / family work etc.
- Leadership training.
- Balint Society UK Leadership accreditation
- Qualification in teaching and/or clinical psychodynamic supervision
Skills
Essential
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management.
- Ability and experience of assessing psychological competencies in training psychotherapists
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service
- Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff
Desirable
- Knowledge of assessing Psychiatry trainees using Royal College of Psychiatry WPBA's
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in relevant area of mental health practise.
- Application of evidenced based specialist psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.
- Application of specialist psychological therapy within individual and group modality.
- Autonomous clinical practice and leadership experience
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
- Experience applying specialist psychological therapy to patients with complex difficulties
- Involvement in the development and provision of clinical teaching programmes.
- Experience of teaching and training novice psychotherapists
- Previous experience training Medical resident trainees
- Experience of attending Balint Society UK meetings
Qualifications
Essential
- Background degree level qualification in health related profession eg OT, SW, Clin psychol, RMN
- Specialist post graduate training to masters level or equivalent in a psychotherapeutic modality - including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Systemic Therapy, Group analytic Therapy AND Accreditation from a recognised Psychological Therapy body e.g. BABCP, BACP, UKCP via: Professional route; requiring previous mental health qualification e.g. (a) Clin.Psych., RMN, Dip. SW. or (b) Where applicable, the KSA (knowledge, skills and attitude) route (e.g. with the BABCP).
Desirable
- Undertaken post-qualification further training in a specialised area of psychological practice e.g. CAT, DIT, DBT, CBT, solution focused therapy, individual or group psychoanalytic psychotherapy; systemic / family work etc.
- Leadership training.
- Balint Society UK Leadership accreditation
- Qualification in teaching and/or clinical psychodynamic supervision
Skills
Essential
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management.
- Ability and experience of assessing psychological competencies in training psychotherapists
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service
- Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff
Desirable
- Knowledge of assessing Psychiatry trainees using Royal College of Psychiatry WPBA's
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
