Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7375649-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swanswell Point
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 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.’
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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
Band 8b Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – 1.0wte - Community Mental Health Team (Psychosis)
Our Vision: To become an innovative, forward-thinking, and inclusive teaching organisation, enabling us to provide consistently high quality, safe, and compassionate care – do you want to play an important part in this?
Our values: 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… multi-disciplinary teams… transformation… 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/counselling psychologist who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of people experiencing psychosis.
Our Community Mental Health teams are multi-disciplinary and support adults in the community who experience significant mental health problems including those with ongoing difficulties as a result of psychosis. Compassionate care is at the heart of what we do, and the contribution of psychology and provision of psychological interventions is highly valued. We have a strong commitment to provide an excellent standard of care and to continually improve.
Main duties of the job
This is a truly exciting time as we change what we do and how we deliver community mental health services. This newly integrated CMH team is developing a pathway for people with psychosis and an enhanced pathway for people with psychosis where meaningful engagement can be a challenge. You will work closely with senior colleagues across our teams and localities on team and service development whilst providing psychological interventions to people with greatest complexity.
We want you to feel supported within your role and we are keen see our psychologists flourish and develop with training in Family Interventions (BFT), CBT for Psychosis (CBTp) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for example. We also have access to the Bespoke training platform and an excellent psychological skills development team.
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.
Please note: It is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Principal Psychologist, you will join senior colleagues in delivering strong leadership in psychology provision in the team, as well as contributing to the Trust-wide development of our services. You will work principally with people with complex difficulties and their families, delivering recovery focussed interventions in the community. 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. As part of the Psychology team you will also be expected to support Clinical Psychology trainees, Clinical Associates in Psychology and other practitioners in their training and development. Research is also highly valued and we welcome people who support our research vision.
It is essential that candidates have some pre or post qualification experience of working with people with psychosis; have a commitment to and interest in providing psychological interventions for psychosis as well as having good risk management skills. Experience of applying cognitive behavioural models to psychosis and recovery would be advantageous, and interests in ACT, Compassion Focused Therapy and EMDR would be welcome.
You are required to hold a current professional registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist (clinical or counselling), and it would be advantageous to be BABCP accredited or have passed a BABCP accredited CBT training course. A recognised qualification, current training or commitment to undertake training in CBT for psychosis is highly desirable. The ability to travel during the working day over a large geographical area is essential, as is the ability to work flexibly with the needs of the client group.
For further information or an informal chat about this post then please contact:
Dr Gary Willington, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead Psychologist for Community Psychosis Services on 07721 880505
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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