Job summary
Band 8a. Applicants at Band 7 looking to seek preceptorship opportunity will also be considered.
For IST the base is Coventry. For the South Warwickshire Community Learning Disability Team the base is Leamington Spa. However as part of your role you will be required to travel throughout Coventry and Warwickshire. This role also incorporates remote and agile working.
This is for a full-time post, split between the CLDT (0.4wte) and the Autism IST (0.6wte).
The successful applicant will be required to provide input to both services in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training, service evaluation and supervision of other qualified staff.
- 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?
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 people with Learning Disability and for those with Autism in times of crisis. If you are driven and passionate Clinical Psychologist and want to have the opportunity to make a difference for these two groups of service users then we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Autism Children's and Young Adults Intensive Support Team is a specialist, multi-disciplinary team currently consisting of OT, Clinical Psychology, Counselling, Nursing and Therapy Assistants working across Coventry and Warwickshire. This is a specialist service with a pivotal role in supporting people with autism and mental health needs in the community at times of crisis. The team works to provide additional specialist assessment and therapeutic support for children, young people, families, and adults using a systemic approach, with the aim of reducing the need for admission to tier 4 hospital.
The Community Learning Disability Team in South Warwickshire is a well-established multi-disciplinary team in which the psychology service is highly valued. Successful applicants will be required to offer psychological services to adults with a Learning Disability as part of this specialist service provision. Psychologists in the team receive excellent support and regular, good quality supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development.
Both teams sit within the Learning Disability and Autism Directorate and as such we are part of a large multi-professional group which offers the opportunity for knowledge and skill sharing. Additionally, this role offers the opportunity to diversify and to be able to offer support to people with Autism whose needs fall within Rise (CAMHS) and adult mental health services with whom we also have strong links.
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 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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Both teams offer well-established links with the Coventry and Warwick Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, providing core placements, teaching sessions and supervising doctoral research projects.
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. This includes Brooklands which is a national and regional provider of Learning Disability Forensic Inpatient Services. We also provide community services for the people of Coventry and IAPT and learning disability services in Solihull. There are four Community Teams for adults with a Learning Disability throughout the organisation and two Intensive Support Teams.
The successful applicant will be required to provide input to both services in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training, service evaluation and supervision of other qualified staff.
Both teams work systemically to understand and support the significant impact and challenges experienced by our service users. To do this, we work with the network around the person (e.g., Social Care, Education) and work closely with commissioners. As a Clinical Psychologist you will have experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working as you will need to attend regular MDTs, CETRs and EMDTs.
Your role will entail working directly with the service users and their families or carers and, as such, experience of working with young people who have mental health needs and autism, and adults with Learning Disability is essential.
The people referred to our service have highly complex needs, e.g., enduring behaviour which challenges, self-injurious, aggressive, or violent behaviour, or other risky presentations which could lead to harm to themselves or others. Understanding these needs, risks, and behaviours within the context of our service users lived experiences and their autism and/or learning disability is the foundation of our work and we use Team Formulations and a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework to help us to do this. You will have a key role in these processes, along with specialist assessments, interventions, and evaluations, which will involve working to understand relationships within families. Experience of the clinical application and evaluation of PBS or similar approach would be advantageous.
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 mature and expand and 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.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Both teams offer well-established links with the Coventry and Warwick Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, providing core placements, teaching sessions and supervising doctoral research projects.
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. This includes Brooklands which is a national and regional provider of Learning Disability Forensic Inpatient Services. We also provide community services for the people of Coventry and IAPT and learning disability services in Solihull. There are four Community Teams for adults with a Learning Disability throughout the organisation and two Intensive Support Teams.
The successful applicant will be required to provide input to both services in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training, service evaluation and supervision of other qualified staff.
Both teams work systemically to understand and support the significant impact and challenges experienced by our service users. To do this, we work with the network around the person (e.g., Social Care, Education) and work closely with commissioners. As a Clinical Psychologist you will have experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working as you will need to attend regular MDTs, CETRs and EMDTs.
Your role will entail working directly with the service users and their families or carers and, as such, experience of working with young people who have mental health needs and autism, and adults with Learning Disability is essential.
The people referred to our service have highly complex needs, e.g., enduring behaviour which challenges, self-injurious, aggressive, or violent behaviour, or other risky presentations which could lead to harm to themselves or others. Understanding these needs, risks, and behaviours within the context of our service users lived experiences and their autism and/or learning disability is the foundation of our work and we use Team Formulations and a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework to help us to do this. You will have a key role in these processes, along with specialist assessments, interventions, and evaluations, which will involve working to understand relationships within families. Experience of the clinical application and evaluation of PBS or similar approach would be advantageous.
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 mature and expand and 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.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- DClin Psych or equivalent qualification in clinical psychology Registration with the HPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Registered as an Clinical Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling) with the HCPC
- Pre and post-qualification training in specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people with complex mental health problems, neuropsychological assessment, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post qualification training in one or more evidence based psychological approach with children with complex and severe mental health problems (e.g. CBT or systemic psychotherapy)
- Qualifications or equivalent experience for teaching, training and supervising of doctoral level trainees
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adults with Learning Disability
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
- Experience of working with children and young adults with Autism
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
- Experience in a CAMHS or similar setting
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with ASD, learning disabilities and mental health needs and their families across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of engaging clients who are hard to reach because of their social circumstances and/or because of communication difficulties
- Supervision of assistant psychologists and other multi-disciplinary professionals
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and the legal context. Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job
- Knowledge of the range of young people's mental health problems and mental health Services
- Knowledge of key policy and guidance relating to Children and adult with ASD
Other
Essential
- Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust's services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- DClin Psych or equivalent qualification in clinical psychology Registration with the HPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Registered as an Clinical Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling) with the HCPC
- Pre and post-qualification training in specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people with complex mental health problems, neuropsychological assessment, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post qualification training in one or more evidence based psychological approach with children with complex and severe mental health problems (e.g. CBT or systemic psychotherapy)
- Qualifications or equivalent experience for teaching, training and supervising of doctoral level trainees
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adults with Learning Disability
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
- Experience of working with children and young adults with Autism
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
- Experience in a CAMHS or similar setting
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with ASD, learning disabilities and mental health needs and their families across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of engaging clients who are hard to reach because of their social circumstances and/or because of communication difficulties
- Supervision of assistant psychologists and other multi-disciplinary professionals
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and the legal context. Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job
- Knowledge of the range of young people's mental health problems and mental health Services
- Knowledge of key policy and guidance relating to Children and adult with ASD
Other
Essential
- Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust's services
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
