Clinical Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking a full-time psychologist to join the Community Mental Health Team in the Stratford-upon-Avon locality. The position emphasizes compassionate care and evidence-based interventions for individuals facing psychosis. Successful applicants will collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams, promote recovery-focused practices, and have access to extensive professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Learning and development programs

Salary sacrifice schemes

Wellbeing support

Discounts at retail and entertainment venues

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals experiencing psychosis.
• Ability to deliver evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Commitment to a recovery philosophy of service provision.

Responsibilities

• Work predominantly with people on psychosis pathways.
• Deliver Recovery focused interventions in the community.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to support clients.

Skills

Compassion

Collaboration

Integrity

Flexibility

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

This full-time post is within our Community Mental Health Team (psychosis pathway), based in the Warwick/Leamington or Stratford-upon-Avon locality.

Voices... trauma... visions... stigma... withdrawal... exclusion... depression... substance use. The people we support need a psychologist with a passion for working with people experiencing psychosis and who can work with them and their families to find a way to a meaningful recovery. Is this you?

Compassion... Respect.... Collaboration... Integrity... do you share our values?

Peer workers... multi-disciplinary teams... transformation... new partnerships... organisational change - do these excite you?

If the answer to these is 'Yes', we would love to hear from you.

You will work predominantly with people on our psychosis pathways but may also work with people on our non-psychosis mental health pathways. The work on the psychosis pathway is based on the FACT model and is aligned with a Recovery philosophy of service provision. Compassionate care is at the heart of what we do, and the contribution of psychology and provision of psychological interventions is welcome and highly valued. We have a strong commitment to provide an excellent standard of care and to continually improve, and we are keen see our psychologists flourish and develop through supervision, training and mentoring opportunities., With the support and supervision of a Principal Clinical Psychologist you will work with colleagues to deliver Recovery focused interventions in the community. You will work with people with complex difficulties, their families and the teams who support them, delivering formulation and evidence-based interventions and support. You will be expected to promote values that seek to support recovery in this client group and maximise the potential of individuals with the aim of reducing social exclusion, stigma and the potentially disabling effects of psychosis.

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.

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
• 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.