Principal Practitioner Psychologist

Job summary

Are you an experienced psychologist looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and service development skills? Come and join the High Intensity User Service (HIUS), a small but dynamic team who embrace trauma-informed care, putting the service user at the heart of all we do, and striving to cultivate psychologically-informed ways of working for high intensity users of mental health services. You will be able to shape the further development of the service, and will work closely with colleagues in Home Treatment, Liaison Mental Health, Inpatient Mental Health Wards, and Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services.

Main duties of the job

The HIUS Principal Psychologist will offer clinical leadership to the HIUS team, which works intensively with high intensity users of services and the networks around them to better understand people's needs and collaborates widely to find improved ways of meeting those needs. Working in Urgent Care Mental Health is a fantastic use of a psychologist's skills and no two days are the same. If you are interested in working at different levels of systems, providing direct clinical work as well as consultation, supervision, and training, as well as getting involved in new initiatives to improve service user experience, then please call us to talk further. We do not have targets for contacts, we do not have waiting lists, and we work closely with our MDT colleagues. We are particularly keen to hear from those people who have a strong recovery ethos.

About us

We have a strong focus on looking after our staff and we work hard to ensure that people's strengths and skills are utilised and nurtured. Psychology is seen as a valuable resource across our Urgent Care teams, and you will receive robust supervision and line management support, from within Acute Psychological Services, as well as support to develop your career and portfolio of skills. Many of our staff are part-time and work flexibly, and CWPT has a supportive flexible working policy.

Specialist areas of interest (and accredited practitioners in some of these fields) within the Acute Psychological Services team include CBT, CFT, ACT, CAT, DBT, and EMDR. We have close links with the Coventry & Warwick D. Clin. Psych and the Warwick Research Masters course, and regularly offer specialist placements. There is a memorandum of understanding with Warwick and Coventry Universities to support the Acute Services Research Hub and there will be opportunities for service development, audit, and research. If you are interested in joining a busy, friendly, and energetic team, please give us a call!