Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a or 7)

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Job description

Employer Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Tile Hill Health Centre

Town: Coventry

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 25/04/2025 23:59

Interview date: 09/05/2025

Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a or 7)

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services.

‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’

Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.

PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.

Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.

Are you passionate about supporting people with eating disorders? Would you like to make a difference to people's lives and support them to recover and thrive?

We are looking to employ a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our newly transformed Trust-wide community eating disorders service. You will be joining existing psychologists in a team where there is true multi-disciplinary working and where the contribution of psychological services staff is highly valued.

If you do not yet meet the criteria for the band 8a role, we will support applications from candidates that meet the criteria for the band 7 role and job description (please see additional documents on NHS jobs).

In these instances, the successful candidate would be appointed to a Development Post role at band 7 and provided opportunities and support to progress to the band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme. It is expected that this process will be achievable within a period of up to two years, although timescales may vary between different staff members in Development Posts. In the event that elements of the expected competencies to progress to 8a are not fully met, the role will remain as a band 7.

This will be further discussed as part of the interview and recruitment process as appropriate. Applications from newly qualified/soon to qualify clinicians are therefore welcomed.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in collaboration with other members of the Eating Disorders Service as part of the team providing community treatment for people with eating disorders. The post holder will contribute to the development of our newly transformed Trust-wide outpatient service for adult patients with eating disorders and their carers.

The post holder will be required to provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention (individual and group), in accordance with the evidence base; to provide clinical supervision for team members; to provide consultation to colleagues in the Trust; to undertake research, to provide training to the eating disorders team and to the wider service and participate in personal CPD.

Working for our organisation

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.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached job description and person specification.

As this role can be applied for as a development post, job descriptions and person specifications for both the Band 8a role and its Band 7 counterpart are attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

• DClin Psych or equivalent qualification in clinical psychology OR doctorate in counselling psychology.
• Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge and awareness of a range of psychological models and how they may apply in clinical practice.
• Well-developed ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance and combines appropriate assertion and diplomacy.
• Able to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.

Experience

• Experience of working with adults presenting with a range of clinical severity.
• Experience of working with clients with an eating disorder.
• Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.