Job Description
Clinical Psychologist - Development Post
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Band 8a. Applicants at Band 7 looking to seek preceptorship opportunity will also be considered. Part time 0.6
Base: For IST the base is Coventry. However, as part of your role, you will be required to travel throughout Coventry and Warwickshire. This role also incorporates remote and agile working.
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?
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.
Main duties of the job
Job overview:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Psychologist to be part of our Children's Intensive Support Team for Coventry and Warwickshire.
The Children's Intensive Support Team is a specialist, multi-disciplinary team currently consisting of OT, Clinical Psychology, speech and language therapists, and Nursing working across Coventry and Warwickshire. This is a specialist service with a pivotal role in supporting people with autism/learning disability and mental health needs in the community at times of crisis.
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to grow our passionate teams across these innovative specialist services and we are looking for an individual who also wants to join us in making a difference in improving outcomes for Children with Autism and/or Learning Disability in times of crisis.
About us
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. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be required to provide input in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training, service evaluation, and supervision of other qualified staff.
Your role will entail working directly with the service users and their families or carers, and experience of working with young people who have mental health needs, autism, and Learning Disability is essential.
Other responsibilities include providing consultation within the MDT and externally, joint working with other agencies, participation and involvement in service development, research and business meetings, and providing supervision (where appropriate) to other psychology staff or team members providing psychologically informed interventions.
This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to look for innovative ways to support the people we work with. If you are passionate and motivated to work with people with Learning Disability and Autism, then we want to hear from you.
Applicants who do not meet the criteria for the band 8a role will also be considered for the band 7 role and job description (available under additional documents on NHS Jobs). If appointed to the band 7 role, this will be a development role with progression to the band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme.
Person Specification
- Good honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for Graduate Membership of the BPS PhD or DClinPsych or equivalent in Clinical Psychology (Clinical/Counselling).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with Autism/learning disabilities and mental health needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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