Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioner to join Community Mental Health Teams across Bradford, AireWharfe, and Craven. The role requires advanced knowledge in complex emotional needs and trauma, working in a trauma-informed, recovery-focused way. You will collaborate across services to ensure individualised, multi-agency care and support for patients. The post involves specialist clinical practice and service development.
Key responsibilities
- Bring a person-centred, trauma-informed approach to ensure appropriate treatment and clinical management of people with complex emotional needs.
- Support the development of multi-agency care plans and challenge barriers to effective care.
- Facilitate the development and enactment of coherent care plans for individuals across various services.
- Provide clinical consultation and advice to healthcare professionals across all localities.
- Support adherence to relevant NICE guidance.
- Maintain clinical skills by delivering direct clinical care in line with evidenced based practice such as DBT or SCM.
Essential criteria
- *BSc or MSc in a core profession (Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Social work). *If BSc - working towards or prepared to undertake a Master's degree programme.
- Registration with Health & Care Professions Council, NMC, Social Work England
- Significant experience in relevant area of mental health practise (CEN & trauma) - at least 3 years post qualification.
- Application of evidenced based specialist interventions relevant to the clinical service - CEN and trauma.
- Experience of Service Development
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- 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.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge and experience in Health & safety, Risk assessment and management
Desirable criteria
- Accreditation in a clinical intervention relevant to people with CEN such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or Structured Clinical Management
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
- Leadership training.
- Supervision (clinical) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
- Experience of working in a CMHT and/or crisis/inpatient services
- Master's level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioner
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of our Complex Emotional Needs Pathway development. We are seeking a Complex Emotional Needs Advanced Practitioners to work across our Community Mental Health Teams in Bradford, AireWharfe and Craven alongside other professionals in the MDT.
The posts are specialist roles requiring an advanced level of knowledge about the development and treatment of complex emotional needs. Working in a trauma-informed recovery focused way, the successful candidates will work in collaboration across services to ensure an individualised, multi-agency approach to care and support.
Closing date: 27th September 2026
Shortlisting date: W/C 28th September 2026
Interview date: 7th October 2026 (Subject to change)
Main duties of the job
To bring a person-centred, trauma-informed and individualised approach toensure appropriate treatment and clinical management of people with complexemotional needs by supporting the development of multi-agency care plans
To ensure that barriers to effective care are challenged, overcome and analysed, options compared and reviewed to agree the best way forward.
To facilitate the development of a coherent care plan for individuals who present across a num
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