Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Community Mental Health Team in South Warwickshire. This is a key clinical leadership role, supporting the development and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for adults experiencing a range of complex mental health difficulties such as trauma, mood disorders and co-morbid physical and mental health problems.
You will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and consultation to psychological professionals and other multidisciplinary colleagues, alongside offering a highly specialist psychological therapies service to service users. Working closely with senior clinicians and operational managers, you will help to shape services, and embed trauma-informed and formulation-driven practice across the pathway.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions for adults with complex needs predominantly within the non-psychosis pathway.
- Offer consultation, and supervision to psychologists, trainees, and wider MDT colleagues.
- Lead on the safety and governance aspects of the delivery of psychological services in the team, including the management of referrals, ensuring processes around clinical data and information are followed and that staff have the training and development to practice safely within the limit of their competence.
- Take a leading role in service development, innovation, and evaluation, supporting implementation of NICE-concordant care.
- Contribute to workforce development, including leadership of psychology provision across the pathway.
- Develop strong partnerships across local services, community organisations, and voluntary sector partners to improve outcomes and accessibility.
- Champion psychological perspectives within the team, promoting recovery-focused and trauma-informed approaches
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.
Please note: It is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
These are detailed in the job description.
We would welcome somebody who is a dynamic team orientated person who is keen on service development and ensuring that we provide a high quality timely service.
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist you will work alongside colleagues in the Psychology Service and wider MDT to ensure that we are meeting targets and working with the local population health needs.
About YouWe are looking for a clinician who is:
- A Clinical or Counselling psychologist who is HCPC-registered
- Experienced in working with adults with severe and complex mental health needs in community settings.
- Skilled in delivering, supervising, and evaluating evidence-based psychological therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CAT, EMDR, schema therapy).
- Confident in service development, leadership, and strategic influence within multidisciplinary teams.
- Committed to reducing health inequalities and promoting co-production with service users and carers.
- Passionate about supervision, reflective practice, and developing others.
We welcome and questions on this rare opportunity.
Job description
Job responsibilities
These are detailed in the job description.
We would welcome somebody who is a dynamic team orientated person who is keen on service development and ensuring that we provide a high quality timely service.
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist you will work alongside colleagues in the Psychology Service and wider MDT to ensure that we are meeting targets and working with the local population health needs.
About YouWe are looking for a clinician who is:
- A Clinical or Counselling psychologist who is HCPC-registered
- Experienced in working with adults with severe and complex mental health needs in community settings.
- Skilled in delivering, supervising, and evaluating evidence-based psychological therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CAT, EMDR, schema therapy).
- Confident in service development, leadership, and strategic influence within multidisciplinary teams.
- Committed to reducing health inequalities and promoting co-production with service users and carers.
- Passionate about supervision, reflective practice, and developing others.
We welcome and questions on this rare opportunity.
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.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Other
Essential
- Requirement to travel throughout the Trust
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.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Other
Essential
- Requirement to travel throughout the Trust
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address
St Marys Lodge / Stratford Healthcare
St Marys Road / Arden St
Leamington Spa / Stratford Upon Avon
CV31 1JN
Employer's website
https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
