Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work across Primary Care place-based teams in our Coventry area, in both a clinical and leadership role

Are you a dynamic person looking for a psychology post that will provide you with new opportunities and experience? Do you have significant experience of working in mental health services and providing a range of evidence-based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness?

This is a unique opportunity to join the Psychology Service within our Primary Care Mental Health Service, an ambitious service established over the past 18 months. We're passionate about offering the right psychological support early on, and in this role, you'll ensure our patients can access this care at the point of need.

You will be employed by Coventry and Warwickshire and Partnership NHS Trust but be embedded within a group of GP practices (Primary Care Network) with a focus on supporting local patients living in Coventry, offering care at the point of need.You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) environment, within an established Primary Care Psychology Service and contribute to the development of our evolving service.

Main duties of the job

This is both a clinical and leadership role so you will have a meaningful impact on improving the access, experience and outcomes for service users on a daily basis through promoting and offering early psychology assessments, formulations, brief psychological interventions and consultations in a recovery focused way.

Leadership responsibilities may include the clinical supervision of our CWPT junior psychology team members; training; service evaluation; communication with our clinical directors, GPs and wider GP practice colleagues; supporting the Psychology Leads in the coordination of the day-to-day operational management needs and clinical issues arising from mental health service delivery.

You will also contribute to delivering and co-developing the primary care mental health service model. This includes care pathways for the provision of integrated mental health care within the Primary Care Networks and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

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 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.