Senior Clin, Couns or Forensic Psychologist OR Senior Psychotherapist

Go back Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 09 July 2026

Join us for a unique opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership skills across the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP). The service has a focus on enabling progressive and trauma-informed ways of engaging people in difficult situations, to help improve the experience and outcomes for individuals who experience the world as profoundly unsafe (often associated with the diagnostic label of a 'personality disorder') and the staff working with them.

Ideally, you will have experience of working within the criminal justice system or secure mental health care.

The YHPDP team includes psychologists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, housing workers and probation staff. They are a regional service and part of Leeds 'Personality Disorder' services. The team work collaboratively with probation staff to develop risk management plans and support service users to seek the most appropriate treatment for their needs. The aim is to enable thoughtful, compassionate and therapeutic risk management delivered in partnership with colleagues from the Probation Service, with the ultimate aim of reducing reoffending, increasing psychological well-being and developing a workforce with the additional competencies for working effectively with this group.

The team draw on an eclectic range of psychological theory to best enable non-psychological practitioners to understand behaviour which may often challenge working alliances.

To provide a highly specialist psychological service across the consultation and formulation (Core OM) strand of the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership. The YHPDP Core OM service provides a consultation and formulation service across the Yorkshire and Humberside region to support the implementation of the Offender Personality Disorder strategy.

To work across the team in a manner that is formulation-based, trauma-informed, and builds the capacity of the wider team to work in a psychologically- and trauma-informed way.

To provide line-management and/or clinical supervision to members in the multidisciplinary team, including Probation Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists or Trainees.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

This post is a specific role within the team to provide the Core OM consultation service within the Offender Management in Custody model; providing consultation, formulation and workforce development opportunities to Prison Offender Managers and other staff in relation to their OPD caseload specifically within HMP Millsike and HMP Doncaster.

The YHPDP office is in Leeds; there is an expectation that there will be some hybrid working, so the post holder may work remotely for some of the time each week. The post requires regular travel across the region, including to HMP Millsike and HMP Doncaster.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

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