Job summary
- Main area
- Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 444-7090416A-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swanswell Point
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 Per Anum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
Candidate Information Pack - final version - digital (canva.com)
Job overview
We are looking for a highly skilled and dedicated Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team and play a key role in leading the provision of specialist psychological services within the secondary care Community Mental Health teams. This role will focus on the non-psychosis provision and the Personality and Complex Trauma Pathway (PACT), providing expert psychological opinion, supervision, and consultancy to both clients and professionals.
You will be part of the community mental health leadership team and will be working with dynamic multidisciplinary teams across Coventry and Warwickshire, offering clinical leadership, supervision, and ensuring the continuous development of psychological professions staff and the implementation of best practices in psychological care. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with significant experience in secondary mental health care to make a real difference in the lives of individuals with complex psychological needs.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical leadership and expert psychological services within the non-psychosis and PACT pathways.
- Offer consultancy, guidance, and supervision to clinicians and other professionals within the Community Mental Health teams, ensuring high standards of care and clinical practice.
- Contribute to service development and innovation, ensuring the systematic provision of psychological services and fostering continuous improvement across services.
- Provide professional advice on clinical formulations, treatment plans, and diagnoses, and facilitate complex case discussions with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Engage in service audits, research, and clinical governance initiatives, contributing to the development and evaluation of services.
- Supervise doctoral trainees, volunteers, and staff, providing professional guidance and facilitating their professional development.
- Play an active role in training and mentoring the next generation of clinical psychologists and mental health professionals.
- Lead the development of psychological services across secondary care, advocating for the integration of psychological knowledge into clinical practice.
Working for our organisation
In Coventry and Warwickshire, we are always seeking to be the best. Our Community Mental Health Transformation Programme has enabled us to seek new and innovative ways to improve the services we deliver in a more holistic, person-centred way, which treats both physical and mental health.
Come and join our expanding team at this time of growth and investment in our staff and our services. You'll have an opportunity to contribute to the development of our services as you and your career develop with us.
Importantly, we have pioneered co-design and co-production of our services with those who have lived experience of mental health care (Experts by Experience).
You will be joining a supportive network of consultant level psychological professionals within our community mental health services. You will receive professional support and line management from the Directorate Lead for Psychological Professions in community mental health, NHS Talking Therapies and Primary Care, and be part of the trust wide consultants group led by the Trust lead for psychological services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology
- Further post – doctoral qualification / registration
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven supervision and management skills
- Post-doctoral training relevant to the post
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group
- Well developed communication skills
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the designated services
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of clinical leadership and service development.
- Extensive experience of delivering highly specialist services
- Experience of working with a range of clients, including those with eating disorder, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Rowley
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775 715336
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