Clinical Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider located in Royal Leamington Spa is seeking a qualified psychologist for their Community Learning Disability Team. The role includes providing specialist assessments, therapy, and supervision of staff. Candidates must have a Doctorate in Psychology and proven experience in clinical settings. The position offers diverse responsibilities aimed at developing psychological services across various teams while ensuring high service standards and supporting the wellbeing of clients and families. Comprehensive benefits include generous leave and training opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Wellbeing support

Employee discount schemes

Qualifications

• Proven experience in providing psychological assessment and therapy.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly to multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in supervising junior psychology staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
• Communicate assessment results and outcome data to colleagues.
• Contribute to service development and clinical governance activities.

Skills

Specialist psychological assessment

Clinical supervision

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Psychology

Job description

Overview

The post holder will provide input to this Community Learning Disability Team in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training and supervision of other qualified staff. Clinical work will often involve working with the wider system around a client through supporting families, carers and other agencies in their psychological understanding. We also offer systemic and consultancy working in the form of group work and specialist team work.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data from a variety of sources.
• Ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including prioritising work appropriately.
• Communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients, both within and outside the Trust.
• Contribute to the development of services, reviewing service outcomes, designing and participating in audit, research and clinical governance initiatives, and working cooperatively with colleagues to achieve service goals and maximise service effectiveness. This will involve communication with a wide range of clinical and managerial colleagues, within and outside the Trust.
• Provide supervision to less senior qualified psychology staff, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other colleagues.
• Provide clinical placements to doctoral level trainee psychologists.
• Travel across the Trust as required; car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport arrangements will be required.

Additional requirements

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.

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About CWPT & Benefits

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. 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.