Consulting Psychologist
3 days ago
Leeds
Consultant Psychologist Rehabilitation & Recovery Services – Leeds Area Part-time or Full-time | Single or Dual-Site Role We are recruiting a Consultant Psychologist to join established multidisciplinary teams across two Level 2 rehabilitation hospitals in the Leeds / West Yorkshire area. The role can be structured as: • Part-time at one site (approx. 22.5 hours), or, • Full-time across two sites (37.5 hours), with time split between locations Both services provide high-dependency recovery and rehabilitation for adult male patients with complex mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental illness, neuropsychiatry, physical health comorbidities, and community-focused rehabilitation pathways. The Services • Site 1: A 19-bed high-dependency rehabilitation and recovery service, • Site 2: A dual-ward rehabilitation service supporting individuals with increasing physical and mental health needs Both services are recovery-focused and aim to support individuals to build confidence, independence, and skills to progress toward community living. The Role You will play a senior clinical and strategic role within the services, contributing directly to patient care, team development, and service improvement. Key responsibilities include: • Leading psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for patients with complex needs, • Developing and delivering behavioural and psychologically informed interventions, • Working closely with a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to care planning and risk management, • Providing clinical supervision, support, and guidance to psychologists, assistants, and trainees, • Contributing to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives, • Supporting staff teams with psychologically informed approaches to care, • Operating at a strategic level within the service while maintaining strong clinical involvement What We’re Looking For This is a demanding but highly rewarding role. The successful candidate will demonstrate resilience, leadership, and strong clinical expertise. Essential criteria: • Qualified Consultant Psychologist, • Strong working knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, plus at least two additional therapeutic modalities, • Training in an intervention suitable for working with complex and/or location-specific disorders, • Significant experience working with complex service users in rehabilitation or similar settings, • Experience delivering highly specialist psychological interventions, • Training and experience in clinical supervision, • Strong leadership, service development, and strategic working experience, • Willingness to undertake further training where required Why Join • Flexible working options (part-time or full-time), • Opportunity to shape and develop rehabilitation services, • Supportive, compassionate multidisciplinary teams, • Meaningful work with individuals at critical stages of recovery