Our teams

Working in the our Mental Health services offers a rewarding and diverse career, with opportunities to make a meaningful impact across all age groups. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, working across both community and hospital settings, alongside a variety of skilled professionals, including nurses, psychiatrists, and therapists. Our teams are further enriched by the expertise of occupational therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists, dieticians, speech and language therapists, healthcare support workers, nursing associates, and staff nurses.

This collaborative approach ensures a holistic, patient-centred model of care that meets a wide range of needs. From urgent mental health crisis support through our First Response team, to providing dedicated services like child and adolescent services (CAMHS) and dementia care for older adults, you’ll be at the forefront of transformative care.

Join us to develop your skills, contribute to innovative services, and make a lasting difference in people’s lives.

Find out more and see our current vacancies.

Join one of our dedicated teams providing learning disability services, where your skills can make a meaningful difference.

Our multidisciplinary teams include allied health professionals, therapists, nurses, healthcare support workers, and many other professionals working in both inpatient and outpatient settings. We also work jointly with Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust to provide one of two inpatient care for people with complex learning disabilities across the region, The Najurally Centre.

Together, we support adults with learning disabilities who have complex physical and mental health needs that cannot be met by other services.

If you’re passionate about delivering high-quality care, collaborating with a dynamic team, and helping individuals achieve their fullest potential, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more and see our current vacancies.

Our corporate teams are vital in supporting our frontline services and are a key part of the team.

Whether it’s booking patient appointments, helping patients to access services digitally, or maintaining our buildings and outdoor spaces, they all have an important role to play.

There’s a broad range of roles and opportunities across a range corporate and support areas including administration, digital, human resources, patient safety, training, finance, clinical support and much more.

Each area offers a range of opportunities and roles.   Find out more about the services, what to expect when you join our team, and see our current vacancies.

If you’re looking for a career rather than simply a job, our forward thinking Community Children’s service aims to support all our staff to develop and progress. We ‘grow our own’, offering community nursery nurses and school nurse support workers the opportunity to train as registered nurses and gain experience for future progression. Once trained as a nurse, many then become a school nurse or health visitor, or complete professional nurse advocate training.

We continually develop and progress our support for communities too, taking our services out into family hubs and local schools, via ‘Healthy Futures’ events, and providing a wide range of advice on our dedicated family health website. We embrace technology – our Children in Care team have introduced electronic health passports for care leavers and our health visiting, Community Infant Feeding Team and School Nursing teams using the Chat Health text service to make it as easy as possible for families to get support.

We were also one of the first to introduce the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting and Infant to School programme for families who need a little more support as part of our work to address health inequalities.

Our School Immunisation team promotes and delivers immunisations in 43 secondary schools and 173 primary schools and to children and young people that are home tutored or in alternative provisions. We also have a specialist Speech and Language Therapy service for children and young people and have been integrally involved in developing the Talking Bradford Speech and Language pathway.

The School Nursing Special Needs and the Children’ and Young People’s Learning Disability team works collaboratively with special schools, so children and young people with complex health needs, physical or learning disabilities, social emotional mental health and SEND have improved quality of life and health outcomes and can safely attend specialist education settings.

There are too many opportunities to summarise here – but please take a look at our vacancies if you’re interested in a career with our Community Children’s service.

Our adult physical Community Health Services team has over 500 staff with a wide range of skills and specialities, serving communities across Bradford, Airedale and Wharfedale. We’re keen to hear from you if you’re interested in a career with us, so please take a look at our vacancies – or read on to find out more about our work, which is divided into five portfolios:

Anticipatory care – supporting individuals and communities to be healthier or more confident in self-care

With a focus on prevention, earlier opportunities and early intervention, our Anticipatory Care teams include the Proactive Care Team (PACT), Homeless and New Arrivals Health team and Falls Prevention Service. We also work to smooth patient flow by, for example, influencing discharge processes, promoting public health initiatives, challenging traditional models of reactive care to develop more anticipatory strategies, promoting self-care, exploring digital innovations and being involved in population health management work.

Planned Care – working with people we know in advance will require our support

Patients whom our Planned Care team works with include those with long-term conditions, such as cardiac and respiratory diseases and diabetes, as well as those requiring wound care and end of life care. We work to improve how conditions are managed and support patients and carers to better self-manage. We aim to optimise interventions and outcomes for patients, increasing the quality of care whilst at the same time reducing duplication and the numbers of people requiring unplanned care. Our Planned Care teams include District Nursing, Continence, Palliative and End of Life Care and Tissue Viability, wound prevention and healing.

Unplanned Care – focused on interventions that are unexpected or required within the next 24-48 hours

To ensure that unplanned work does not prevent anticipatory and planned care being provided to a high standard, our Unplanned Care team provides a thorough assessment for new patients, initiating care plans to support each person’s health to improve more quickly so that care can be ‘stepped down’ to planned care, anticipatory care, or discharge. The team works alongside patients and carers, the other portfolios in adult physical Community Health Services, and wider partners including community partnerships, social care, care homes, voluntary services, and secondary care.

Specialist Care – Podiatry and Speech and Language Therapy.

Our Podiatry foot health team works with children and adults across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven. We liaise closely with other NHS teams including community nurses, GPs and practice nurses, diabetes specialists and orthotist/mobility services, as well as vascular and orthopaedic surgeons and physiotherapy, microbiology and tissue viability specialists. Our Speech and Language Therapy service for adults works across the community in clinics, nursing and residential care homes, patients’ own homes and day centres. We provide support with speech, language, and communication needs, and advice and resources for those with drinking and eating difficulties.

Community Dental Service and Oral Health Improvement

Our Community Dental team are experts in the care, management and understanding of people with learning disabilities, challenging medical conditions and people who are housebound. As well as general dental treatment the team offers treatment with sedation or general anaesthetic for patients with additional needs and has a mobile dental unit. The Oral Health Improvement team is committed to improving the oral health of our local communities, delivering a range of programmes to improve children’s oral health and prevent dental decay as well as offering advice, support and training to promote oral health to key groups.