Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 444-7535044-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Caludon Centre
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/11/2025
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist
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.
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Job overview
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to join CWPT’s Inpatient Mental Health Service which is in the middle of a three year transformation. If you're passionate about working to improve inpatient services and keen to support strategic developments in trauma informed and person centered practice on the wards, please do apply. Having recently redesigned our workforce model, in line with ACP-UK guidelines for inpatient mental health services, we are working towards being able to staff that model fully.
This is a 0.6 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist role across the Mental Health inpatient wards. You will join our supportive Inpatient team which is part of the wider Older Adult Inpatient and Urgent Care sub-directorate. You'll work alongside two Consultant Clinical Psychologists, another Principal Clinical Psychologist who also oversees parts of the inpatient service alongside a team of five senior psychologists, an assistant psychologist and a research assistant. This is a welcoming, supportive, and friendly team.
Main duties of the job
You will involved in assisting the inpatient wards in becoming more psychologically informed, by providing leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with mental health inpatient services . You will be collaborating on the provision of psychological interventions including therapeutic groups, case formulation and ward reflective practice. The role will also involve input into protected learning for the teams and the provision of psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services but also the wider inpatient teams.
Please get in touch to find out more!
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.
- 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 group
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
There has been a wider recognition of the central role of psychological thinking to the development of safe, effective, recovery orientated inpatient mental health services. Psychology is highly regarded and is seen as a valuable catalyst, which has resulted in increased investment into the psychological service allowing for psychologists to be embedded at all levels of service development.
The vision for Acute Mental Health services is of increasing innovation and research, creating recovery oriented and sustainable pathways, with clearly defined interventions which promote optimal functioning for service users. There are some exciting transformation plans in which you would get involved and many workstreams that would benefit from the expertise of the successful candidate; this is a real opportunity to shape services and pathways.
There are innovations within inpatient services which are being developed such as Reflective Practice groups for staff, EMDR provision, Trauma Informed wards and Recovery Focused approaches in which you can get involved. There are many opportunities to develop services so that they incorporate psychological ideas. If you’re interested in joining a supportive, friendly and passionate team, please give us a call!
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 & 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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist within acute / crisis settings/physical health settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, as an individual clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care 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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Helen Platts
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917 277746
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