Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 444-6103697A-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Caludon
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Pro Rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Practitioner 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.
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
Are you an experienced psychologist looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and service development skills? Come and join the High Intensity User Service (HIUS), a small but dynamic team who embrace trauma-informed care, putting the service user at the heart of all we do, and striving to cultivate psychologically-informed ways of working for high intensity users of mental health services. You will be able to shape the further development of the service, and will work closely with colleagues in Home Treatment, Liaison Mental Health, Inpatient Mental Health Wards, and Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services.
Main duties of the job
The HIUS Principal Psychologist will offer clinical leadership to the HIUS team, which works intensively with high intensity users of services and the networks around them to better understand people’s needs and collaborates widely to find improved ways of meeting those needs. Working in Urgent Care Mental Health is a fantastic use of a psychologist’s skills and no two days are the same. If you are interested in working at different levels of systems, providing direct clinical work as well as consultation, supervision, and training, as well as getting involved in new initiatives to improve service user experience, then please call us to talk further. We do not have targets for contacts, we do not have waiting lists, and we work closely with our MDT colleagues. We are particularly keen to hear from those people who have a strong recovery ethos.
Working for our organisation
We have a strong focus on looking after our staff and we work hard to ensure that people’s strengths and skills are utilised and nurtured. Psychology is seen as a valuable resource across our Urgent Care teams, and you will receive robust supervision and line management support, from within Acute Psychological Services, as well as support to develop your career and portfolio of skills. Many of our staff are part-time and work flexibly, and CWPT has a supportive flexible working policy.
Specialist areas of interest (and accredited practitioners in some of these fields) within the Acute Psychological Services team include CBT, CFT, ACT, CAT, DBT, and EMDR. We have close links with the Coventry & Warwick D. Clin. Psych and the Warwick Research Masters course, and regularly offer specialist placements. There is a memorandum of understanding with Warwick and Coventry Universities to support the Acute Services Research Hub and there will be opportunities for service development, audit, and research. If you are interested in joining a busy, friendly, and energetic team, please give us a call!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
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.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist within acute / crisis settings
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 Cressida Gaffney
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07741 703599
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