Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Learning Disability and Autism
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- 20 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7454366-LD
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brooklands Hospital
- Town
- Marston Green
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical or Forensic Psychologist x 2
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 recruiting two Principal Psychologists within the West Midlands Learning Disability and Autism Community Forensic Service.
This service is being developed as a partnership between Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) and Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT).
We are seeking experienced psychologists with a background in community and forensic work with adults with learning disabilities and/or autistic adults. Applications are welcome from staff who are currently working at Band 8a level or above.
This is a non-recurrent, two-year project funded via the Reach Out Collaborative, with the contract commencing upon appointment. This post is available as a fixed-term contract or 20-month secondment opportunity for internal applicants.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in leading specialist psychological services, providing clinical and professional leadership, and supporting recovery-focused outcomes for individuals across secure and community services.
Main duties of the job
This position will involve taking a lead role in the West Midlands Forensic Community LDA Service for people with learning disability and/or autistic people, as directed by the lead psychologist.
Based on the core functions of the national specification for community forensic LD and autism services, the WM community forensic LDA service is set up to provide:
- In-reach support to inpatient services to support safe and timely discharges
- Forensic risk assessment and management of risk in the community to ensure public safety and safety of the individual
- Delivery of offence specific therapeutic interventions
- Expert advice and training to other agencies
- Consultancy and support
- A West Midlands-wide on-call service – clinical advice and urgent support outside core hours.
The Principal Clinical or Forensic Psychologist will support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. They will be expected to utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/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
Key priorities include:
· Planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating highly specialist psychological services for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism who have forensic needs, including those in inpatient services.
· Ensuring the systematic provision of high-quality psychological assessment and treatment for highly complex cases requiring detailed analysis, formulation, and intervention.
· Providing highly specialist training and consultation to staff from a range of statutory agencies and independent providers to support service users to remain in the community.
· Supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by junior psychologists, assistant and trainee psychologists, and other clinical staff delivering psychologically-based care.
· Adhering to the lone worker policy and ensuring safe practice in line with professional guidelines.
· Being responsible for the governance of psychological practice within the service.
· Working autonomously within professional guidelines while providing clinical and professional leadership to psychologists, psychological therapists, and other relevant clinical staff.
· Planning, organising, and contributing to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, including research, service evaluation, and audit, and advising management on psychological and organisational matters.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Forensic experience within an inpatient or community setting
- Experience of working with autism or learning disability
Desirable criteria
- Experience of partnership & multi agency working
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate information in a clear and sensitive manner
- Ability to adapt written or verbal communication according to need
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or forensic psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HPC.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
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
- Sian Allen
- Job title
- Consultant Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07766 408530
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