Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Part time)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 444-7110579-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Oaks
- Town
- Warwick
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist, Band 8b
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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.
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Job overview
Band 8b Clinical Psychologist 0.6 (3 days) Fixed-term for 12 months - Early Intervention in Psychosis Team – South Warwickshire, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust.
Compassion … Respect …. Excellence… Collaboration… Integrity... do you share our values?
Voices… trauma… visions… stigma… withdrawal… exclusion… depression… substance use – the people we support need psychologists who can help them find a way through these experiences and make a meaningful recovery – are you ready to work alongside them and their families?
Peer workers… true multi-disciplinary teams… service development… new partnerships… organisational change – do these excite you?
If the answer to these is ‘Yes’, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of people experiencing early psychosis or ARMS to join our Early Intervention Team in South Warwickshire on a 12-month fixed-term basis.
The post is funded as 0.6 wte but there is some flexibility if people wish to work fewer hours.
Main duties of the job
As a Principal Clinical Psychologist, you will be expected to provide strong leadership in psychology provision in the team, as well as contributing to the Trust-wide development of our Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. You will also be expected to provide leadership and oversight around service development, and you will need to work collaboratively with your peers and the leadership team across the Early Intervention Service. You will work with people with complex difficulties and their families. You will be expected to promote values that seek to support recovery in this client group and maximise the potential of individuals with the aim of reducing social exclusion, stigma and the potentially disabling effects of psychosis.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
· generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
· excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
· salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
· discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
· wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
· staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity, and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
It is essential that candidates have post qualification experience of working with people with psychosis. Experience in delivering CBT, CBTp and family interventions with people with first episode psychosis, including those with complex presentations and trauma, is highly desirable. Experience of using trauma-focused interventions is also highly desirable. You are required to hold a current professional registration with the HCPC, and it would be advantageous to be BABCP accredited or have passed a BABCP accredited CBT training course. A recognised qualification or to be currently training in CBTp is also desirable. The ability to travel over a large geographical area may still be necessary on occasion. The ability to work flexibly with the needs of the client group is essential.
We support our psychologists to develop their skills, particularly in developing specialist skills in working with psychosis, trauma, and family work. We welcome people with an interest in research, particular areas of clinical practice or particular types of intervention, and will give dedicated time for this. All of these can be considered within the parameters of the number of hours of the post and the duration of the fixed term.
Please note: It is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Other
Essential criteria
- Requirement to travel throughout the Trust
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
- Dr Gary Willington
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information or an informal chat about this post then please contact:
Dr Gary Willington, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead Psychologist for EI and CMH Psychosis Specialism on 07721 880505 or [email protected]
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