Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider is looking for a highly motivated Clinical, Counselling or Practitioner Psychologist. Join a vibrant multidisciplinary team in Stratford-upon-Avon and Royal Leamington Spa, focusing on complex mental health difficulties. Responsibilities include holding a caseload, providing evidence-based psychological interventions, and collaborating with local training courses. Benefits include generous annual leave, flexible working, and excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes for various benefits

Discounts through Employee Assistance Programme

Well-being support services

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• Deliver psychological therapies like CBT, EMDR, CAT, or DBT-informed work.
• Ability to hold caseload and provide clinical assessments.
• Experience in service audit and development.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and group interventions.
• Engage in joint work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate with the local D Clin Course for Trainee supervision.

Skills

Experience delivering psychological therapies such as CBT

Strong understanding of psychological approaches

Experience working in a multidisciplinary mental health team

Education

Clinical, Counselling or Practitioner Psychologist qualification

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, skilled and compassionate Clinical, Counselling or Practitioner Psychologist to join our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) (non-psychosis pathway) based in Royal Leamington Spa and Stratford Upon Avon.

You will be joining a friendly and vibrant multidisciplinary team that offers great prospects for developing a good range of skills in both direct and indirect clinical work.

The psychological therapies team in the CMHT has a vibrant skill mix including Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT therapists, Assistant Psychologists and Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners who offer a range of interventions including CBT, CBT-PD, EMDR, CAT, DBT-informed work, and CFT.

We aim to provide a service to individuals presenting with complex and enduring mental health difficulties such as trauma, mood disorders, and co‑m­orbid physical and other mental health difficulties.

Key Responsibilities

• Hold own caseload and provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence‑based individual and group interventions to service users accessing the non‑psychosis pathway of the Community Mental Health Team presenting with complex and enduring mental health difficulties.
• Receive clinical supervision by an 8B Clinical Psychologist and provide supervisory responsibilities for others in the team under the support and supervision of a Principal Clinical Psychologist.
• Engage in joint work with colleagues, including team formulation, staff training, support and consultation around psychological issues and reflective practice.
• Collaborate with the local D Clin Course to supervise Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and work with local MSc and other NHS England funded courses to welcome placement opportunities regularly.
• Be encouraged to contribute to audit, service development, evaluation and research activities.

Qualifications & Experience

• Clinical, Counselling or Practitioner Psychologist qualification.
• Experience delivering psychological therapies such as CBT, EMDR, CAT, DBT‑informed work, or CFT.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary mental health team.
• Strong understanding of the contribution of psychological approaches to service provision.

About the Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults across many sites in Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire as well as to a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• Flexible working opportunities
• 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
• Well‑being support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more
• Staff networks and support groups

Additional Information

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. 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.