Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK seeks a highly motivated Clinical Psychologist to join their Community Mental Health Team. This permanent role offers opportunities to assess and support individuals with complex mental health difficulties. Candidates must have doctoral-level training and HCPC registration, providing a competitive salary between £55,690 and £62,682 pro rata. You'll work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on both individual and group interventions, while partaking in service development and training initiatives.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts through Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Clinical experience with clients presenting a range of clinical severity.
• Experience working with people and their carers in mental health settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions to service users.
• Joint work with colleagues for staff training and consultation on psychological issues.
• Involve in audit, service development, evaluation, and research activities.

Skills

Highly specialist psychological assessment methods

Therapeutic approaches

Collaboration

Compassionate care

Education

Post Graduate Doctoral level training in applied Psychology

Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Job description

Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 20 January 2026

Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Band 8a - Permanent, 0.6 WTE

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.

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.

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 are looking for someone who values and enjoys multi-disciplinary working and has a high level of understanding of the distinct contribution and added value that psychological approaches can make to service provision.

The successful applicant will hold their own caseload. They will receive clinical supervision by an 8B Clinical Psychologist and will have their own supervisory responsibilities for others in the team.

Main duties of the job

With the support and supervision of a Principal Clinical Psychologist you will provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and evidence based psychological interventions (individual and group) to service users accessing the non‑psychosis pathway of the Community Mental Health Team presenting with complex and enduring mental health difficulties.

The role also includes joint work with colleagues in the form of team formulation, staff training, support and consultation around psychological issues and reflective practice.

The department has close links with the local D Clin Course and there is ample opportunity to be involved in the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists. We also have links with local MSc courses and other NHS England funded courses and welcome placement opportunities regularly.

You will also be encouraged to be involved in audit, service development, evaluation and research activities.

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.

These include:

• 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK) as approved by the HCPC.
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

Experience

• Clinical experience of working with a range of clients presenting with a range of clinical severity.
• Experience of working with people and their carers in SCMH, or with people with complex mental health needs in different settings.

Knowledge and skills.

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group and skills in applying this knowledge.
• Skills in applying this knowledge.

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.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a year Per annum pro rata