Consultant Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Consultant Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

We are looking for a highly skilled and dedicated Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team and play a key role in leading the provision of specialist psychological services within the secondary care Community Mental Health teams. This role will focus on the non-psychosis provision and the Personality and Complex Trauma Pathway (PACT), providing expert psychological opinion, supervision, and consultancy to both clients and professionals.

You will be part of the community mental health leadership team and will be working with dynamic multidisciplinary teams across Coventry and Warwickshire, offering clinical leadership, supervision, and ensuring the continuous development of psychological professions staff and the implementation of best practices in psychological care. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with significant experience in secondary mental health care to make a real difference in the lives of individuals with complex psychological needs.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical leadership and expert psychological services within the non-psychosis and PACT pathways.
• Offer consultancy, guidance, and supervision to clinicians and other professionals within the Community Mental Health teams, ensuring high standards of care and clinical practice.
• Contribute to service development and innovation, ensuring the systematic provision of psychological services and fostering continuous improvement across services.
• Provide professional advice on clinical formulations, treatment plans, and diagnoses, and facilitate complex case discussions with multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Engage in service audits, research, and clinical governance initiatives, contributing to the development and evaluation of services.
• Supervise doctoral trainees, volunteers, and staff, providing professional guidance and facilitating their professional development.
• Play an active role in training and mentoring the next generation of clinical psychologists and mental health professionals.
• Lead the development of psychological services across secondary care, advocating for the integration of psychological knowledge into clinical practice.

About us

In Coventry and Warwickshire, we are always seeking to be the best. Our Community Mental Health Transformation Programme has enabled us to seek new and innovative ways to improve the services we deliver in a more holistic, person-centred way, which treats both physical and mental health.

Come and join our expanding team at this time of growth and investment in our staff and our services. You'll have an opportunity to contribute to the development of our services as you and your career develop with us.

Importantly, we have pioneered co-design and co-production of our services with those who have lived experience of mental health care (Experts by Experience).

You will be joining a supportive network of consultant level psychological professionals within our community mental health services. You will receive professional support and line management from the Directorate Lead for Psychological Professions in community mental health, NHS Talking Therapies and Primary Care, and be part of the trust wide consultants group led by the Trust lead for psychological services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology
• Further post-doctoral qualification / registration

Knowledge and Skills

• Proven supervision and management skills
• Post-doctoral training relevant to the post
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the designated services

Experience

• Extensive experience of clinical leadership and service development.
• Extensive experience of delivering highly specialist services
• Experience of working with a range of clients, including those with eating disorder, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.

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.