Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disability
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term/Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-6162567A-RM
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Loft
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist - FTC
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
Learning Disability and Autism Directorate – Band 8a Clinical Psychologist working into the North Warwickshire Community Learning Disability Team. This is a full-time one year fixed term / secondment post.
- Are you looking for a job that can give you a diverse range of opportunities to learn and develop?
- Would you like to work in a service where Psychologists are highly valued?
- Would you like to be offered excellent support and supervision?
- Do you want more opportunities to develop professionally?
Main duties of the job
We are looking to employ Clinical Psychologists to join our well established team already inputting into the CLDT. The Psychology teams include Clinical Psychologists and Art and Music Psychotherapists. There is strong multi-disciplinary working within the service and the contribution of psychological services staff is highly valued. Successful applicants will receive excellent support and regular, good quality supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. We have well-established links with the Coventry and Warwick Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, providing core placements, teaching sessions and supervising doctoral research projects. We are also developing further research links with Warwick University and there will be a variety of opportunities to maintain and develop your research skills.
The Psychologist will provide input to this Learning Disability service in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training and supervision of other qualified staff. There are exciting initiatives underway including involvement in a national trauma-aide trial looking at the use of EMDR in people with learning disabilities, behaviour clinics in line with the STOMP/STAMP agenda and a Community Based DBT programme all of which are demonstrating good outcomes for our clients.
Working for our organisation
A job with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust can provide all these things. As an organisation we provide comprehensive mental health and learning disability services to the population of Coventry and Warwickshire. This includes Brooklands which is a national and regional provider of Learning Disability Forensic Inpatient Services. We also provide community services for the people of Coventry and IAPT and learning disability services in Solihull. There are four Community Teams for adults with a Learning Disability throughout the organisation and an Intensive Support Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The community jobs will require travel across the Trust so car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport arrangements will be required to enable you to undertake the job. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Check.
For further information please contact Sam Larcombe, Principal Clinical Psychologist at [email protected] or Zoe McGovern, Interim Consultant Clinical Psychologist at [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with the HPC in Clinical Psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with adults
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs
- Postgraduate experience / training and skills in supervision including the supervision of doctoral trainees
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
- Sam Larcombe
- Job title
- Interim Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476315867
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