Job summary
Exciting Bank Opportunities: Psychological Practitioners York and North Yorkshire Trailblazer Resilience Hub (hosted by Nimbuscare)

The Trailblazer Resilience Hub in York and North Yorkshire continues to support people who are out of work due to ill health, helping them return to meaningful employment. Delivered in partnership with Humber and North Yorkshire ICB and hosted by Nimbuscare, the Hub provides trauma-informed mental health and wellbeing services, linking people to local support networks and enabling sustainable outcomes.

We are offering flexible, ad hoc opportunities for Psychological Practitioners and on a zero-hours or locum contractor basis. You can choose to deliver sessions that fit around your existing portfolio, providing high-impact support while maintaining flexibility. We welcome applications from individuals able to commit to half a day, one day, two days, or more per week, depending on your availability.

Join us to make a real difference, while working in a way that suits you.

Main duties of the job
About the Trailblazer Resilience Hub The Hub offers virtual psychological support, acting as a single point of access for timely, confidential, and high-quality care. It delivers trauma-focused interventions while collaborating with regional services, employers, and stakeholders to support people returning to work from long-term mental health sickness.

You will deliver psychological assessments and interventions, contribute to workforce training, and support strategic engagement across the region.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering trauma-focused psychological interventions for anxiety, depression, and trauma across the lifespan
• Supporting outreach and engagement initiatives across the region
• Collaborating with Primary Care Networks, Occupational Health, Mental Health providers, other NHS and independent care providers and other agencies
• Participating in group work, supervision, teaching, and research as required.

Opportunities & Flexibility

• Flexible, remote-working arrangements to suit your availability.
• Work across multiple locations in York and North Yorkshire delivering online therapy.
• We welcome applications from practitioners at different stages of their career. Appointment will be made depending on experience, qualifications and the level of responsibility agreed.

About us
Who are we? Nimbuscare is a not-for-profit, socially driven organisation within the NHS family. Were collaborative, agile and innovative at our core, working with partners across the system to remove complexity, inspire trust and create person-centred solutions that make healthcare better for everyone.

What we do? We work towards making a complex system simpler. Creating better, more seamless care closer to home.

How we do it? By collaborating closely with GP Members, Patient Safety Partners and wider health and care organisations, combining shared insight and expertise to improve outcomes for local people.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for this job are guaranteed an interview

Details
Date posted: 21 September 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £48,054.73 to £54,990.94 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Flexible working
Reference number: B0260-26-0068
Job locations: Nimbuscare Limited, Gateway 1, Holgate Park Drive, Holgate, York, YO26 4GG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please see the supporting documents attached, where a full job descrptioopn with a list of duties can be found.

Person Specification
Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Ability to exercise autonomous professional judgement in complex situations.
• Highly developed communication skills, including the ability to convey complex or sensitive information clearly and compassionately to a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and organise own workload effectively.
• Ability to work collaboratively and contribute specialist expertise within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to supervise, mentor, or support less experienced staff within agreed parameters.
• Competence in record keeping, report writing, and use of relevant information systems.
• Experience and confidence delivering psychological assessment and therapy remotely using digital platforms.

Desirable

• Skills in delivering formal teaching, training, or presentations.
• Skills in data analysis, audit, or evaluation relevant to service improvement.

Qualifications
Essential

• Psychologist -Doctorate Level (or equivalent) qualification in clinical, counselling, or forensic psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
• Psychological Therapist -Relevant professional qualification at post graduate level (or equivalent) appropriate to the role and discipline in CBT or EMDR)
• Registration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC or equivalent), where applicable or accreditation with BABCP or EMDR Europe
• Have a Core Profession recognised by the BABCP or KSA Knowledge of trauma-informed principles and psychologically informed environments.
• Understanding of the impact of trauma, adversity and health inequalities on wellbeing, functioning
• Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Desirable

• Additional post graduate qualification relevant to specialist practice area.
• Formal training in supervision or mentorship.

Knowledge
Essential

• Advanced professional knowledge relevant to the role, including evidence based practice and current professional standards.
• Sound knowledge of risk assessment, risk management, and safeguarding frameworks.
• Knowledge of safeguarding adults and children procedures and responsibilities.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, policy, and ethical frameworks applicable to the role.
• Understanding of clinical or professional governance systems, including quality assurance and accountability.

Desirable

• Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies.
• Awareness of organisational strategy and service priorities relevant to the role

Experience
Essential

• Significant post qualification experience working at an advanced professional level within a complex service environment.
• Experienced Practitioner in the delivery of CBT, DBT, Schema, CFT, ACT, or EMDR.
• Experience of managing a complex workload or caseload with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience of working effectively within multidisciplinary or multiagency teams.
• Experience of contributing to service improvement, audit, or quality initiatives within own area of practice
• Experience of working with individuals presenting with trauma-related difficulties.

Desirable

• Experience of providing supervision, teaching, or training to others.
• Experience of contributing to research, service evaluation, or innovation

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.