Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7853350-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tile Hill Health Centre
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £47,810 - £62,682 per annum Band 8a development role (can start at Band 7)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
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.’
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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
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our newly transformed eating disorders service. The post holder will join a multi-disciplinary team working to provide good quality and compassionate care to people with eating disorders and their carers. The role will focus on the provision of evidence-based psychology pathways across the community service with opportunity to play a key role in the development of a new day service for adults with eating disorders.
If you do not yet meet the criteria for the band 8a role, we will also support applications from candidates who meet the criteria for the band 7 role and job description (please see attached documentation). In these instances the successful candidate would be appointed to a development post role at band 7 and provided opportunities and support to progress to a band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship program. It is expected that this process will be achievable within a period of two years, although timescales may vary between different staff members in development posts. In the event that elements of the expected competencies to progress to 8a are not fully met the role will remain as a band 7.
This will be further discussed as part of the interview and recruitment process as appropriate. Applications from newly qualified/soon to qualify clinicians would therefore be welcomed.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work in collaboration with other members of the Eating Disorders Service as part of the team providing community treatment for people with eating disorders. The postholder will also contribute to the ongoing development of our Trust-wide service for adult patients with eating disorders and their carers; to include the development of a new day service.
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
The post holder will be required to provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention (individual and group), in accordance with the evidence base; to provide clinical supervision for team members; to provide consultation to colleagues in the Trust; to undertake research, audit and service evaluation; to provide training to the eating disorders team and other services; and to participate in personal CPD.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- DClin Psych or equivalent qualification in clinical psychology OR doctorate in counselling psychology.
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to build and sustain relationships with people with psychological problems
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with adults presenting with a range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working with clients with an eating disorder.
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
- Experience of maintaining professionalism in challenging circumstances.
- Experience of team working.
- Experience in providing consultancy to colleagues.
- Experience of supervising other professionals undertaking psychological interventions.
- Experience of running groups.
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Commitment to working collaboratively, as part of a multi-disciplinary team and with other members of Psychological Services
- Evidence of self development, learning from experience and potential for personal growth.
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 Catherine Haynes
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476 232940
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