Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 444-7819164-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swanswell Point
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical / Counselling 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
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to lead psychological care for people with psychosis within our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in Coventry. This is a rewarding role supporting adults living with complex and often long‑lasting experiences such as voices, visions, trauma, depression, and social withdrawal and exclusion.
You will provide specialist intervention, lead on psychologically informed practice, and help shape the development of an enhanced psychosis pathway.
We offer a supportive, values‑driven environment with strong leadership and a commitment to high‑quality, recovery‑focused care. You will have access to excellent training opportunities including CBT for Psychosis (CBTp), Family Interventions (BFT), EMDR, a comprehensive in‑house psychological skills programme and the excellent Bespoke MH training platform.
This role is ideal for a psychologist who is motivated by compassionate care, service development, workforce supervision, and delivering evidence‑based practice for psychosis.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for adults with complex difficulties related to psychosis.
- Lead and shape the psychological offer within the CMHT, ensuring high‑quality, recovery‑focused, person‑centred care.
- Work collaboratively with senior colleagues to support service development across community mental health pathways.
- Promote values that reduce stigma, enhance social inclusion, and support meaningful recovery.
- Offer clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, and training to psychology trainees, Clinical Associates in Psychology, and wider MDT staff using formulation‑led approaches.
- Contribute to the service’s strong research culture through participation in quality improvement, evaluation, or research initiatives.
- Work flexibly across the locality, with the ability to travel between locations during the working day.
- Ensure safe practice through effective risk assessment and management.
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, in-house psychological skills development service, 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling).
- Training or commitment to undertake training in CBT for Psychosis (highly desirable).
- Pre‑ or post‑qualification experience working with people with psychosis.
- Experience delivering psychological interventions for complex mental health needs.
- Experience providing supervision and contributing to MDT working.
- Strong formulation skills and ability to work with complexity.
- Effective risk assessment and management abilities.
- Knowledge/interest in CBTp, ACT, CFT or EMDR.
- Ability to work flexibly and travel between sites.
Please note: It is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level / post qualification 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 / post qualification 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
- High level knowledge and experience of evidence-based psychological therapies for people with psychosis
- 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]
- Telephone number
- 07721 880505
- Additional information
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 or email [email protected]
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