Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

The closing date is 08 June 2026

The post sits within the Coventry Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). This is an exciting opportunity to work in a supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, with people who are experiencing a period of crisis in their lives. This service offers a creative and flexible way for a psychologist to work, with lots of opportunity for direct and indirect client contact, and clinical leadership. A degree of autonomy is expected but the post exists within a very supportive network of psychologists, who you would share office space with.

The CRHTT value psychological ways of understanding and working with service users and you will be able to work closely with MDT colleagues.

The services cover a diverse community and we hope to reflect that in our workforce, therefore we particularly welcome applications from people from minority ethnic backgrounds.

Main duties of the job

You would be working within a multidisciplinary team, with clients with a wide range of presenting difficulties, including complex trauma, co-morbidity and requiring comprehensive safety planning. The focus of the team is to prevent admission to hospital and facilitate timely discharge from hospital, using a trauma-informed approach. Your role includes offering face to face assessments, formulations, and brief interventions (focusing on stabilisation and helping the individual make sense of their experience), and indirect clinical work with the MDT (e.g. consultation, team formulation, helping with care planning, safe discharge planning). There is an experienced Assistant Psychologists in post who can support your work.

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.

• 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 group

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 responsibilities

You would be accountable to the Principal Clinical Psychologist who works across the 3 Crisis teams and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist over the Urgent Care Services. Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification for further details.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or Doctoral level training in Counselling Psychology
• Full registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

Experience

• Experience of working with adults across the lifespan.
• Experience of working psychologically with a range of people presenting with a range of difficulties who are very distressed and who may be engaging in unsafe behaviours.
• Maintenance of professionalism in highly emotive and challenging circumstances.
• Experience of tailoring psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individual needs, drawing on a range of psychological models as indicated.
• Experience of utilising psychological assessment tools appropriate to client group.
• Experience of psychological supervision of others.
• Experience of working in Acute mental health settings
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
• Experience in providing consultancy to colleagues and in provision of group supervision / case formulation.

Knowledge

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job.

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.

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