Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic practitioner psychologist (clinical/forensic/counselling) to join CWPT's Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) service as Clinical Lead.
Working in this area of mental health is a fantastic use of a psychologist's skills. If you are interested in utilising your experience in innovative ways that brings psychological thinking to the interface between criminal justice and mental health settings, then please call us to talk further.
Main duties of the job
This post will be based with the Mental Health Treatment Requirement Service, which works closely with the Liaison and Diversion Team as well as the Forensic Community Mental Health Team. Core functions of the Clinical Lead role include providing information to inform sentencing, ensuring robust oversight of the intervention and delivering successful clinical outcomes and MHTRs in practice. This role and service are key in improving outcomes for clients with mental health support needs who are in contact with the criminal justice system.
This Principal Psychologist role will allow you to develop your skills as a clinical psychologist, leading the delivery of MHTRs, and developing provision in line with an exciting national agenda. This role will be essential in ensuring quality interventions in the MHTR service, working in liaison with colleagues across the health and criminal justice systems, and offering supervision and leadership for Mental Health Treatment Requirement Practitioners (Assistant Psychologists).
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached document
To work as a member of psychology services providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to patients and their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations.
To support specialist psychological assessments of service users attending Court to establish the appropriateness of a Mental Health Treatment Requirement. To supervise and support the assessment, formulation and treatment interventions provided by Assistant Psychologists.
In addition to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached document
To work as a member of psychology services providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to patients and their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations.
To support specialist psychological assessments of service users attending Court to establish the appropriateness of a Mental Health Treatment Requirement. To supervise and support the assessment, formulation and treatment interventions provided by Assistant Psychologists.
In addition to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist within acute / crisis settings/ /forensic settings.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, as an individual clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist within acute / crisis settings/ /forensic settings.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, as an individual clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
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).
