Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Mental Health Urgent Care

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization seeks a Consultant Clinical Psychologist for their Urgent Care service in Coventry. This role involves providing leadership, supervision, and governance for psychological services while also managing a clinical caseload. The position offers extensive experience in a fast-paced environment aimed at improving client support throughout mental health crises. Competitive salary package offered alongside generous leave and development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee Assistance Programme discounts

Wellbeing support services

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• Highly developed communication skills and authenticity.
• Ability to engage with multi-professional teams.
• Experience with adults facing mental health crises.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and consultation for colleagues.
• Responsible for governance of psychological interventions.
• Manage a clinical caseload while supervising others.

Skills

Expert knowledge of psychological assessment methods

Team working

Continuing professional development

Education

Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Mental Health Urgent Care

The closing date is 10 December 2025

Are you a Clinical Psychologist with experience working in Mental Health Urgent Care settings? Do you thrive in fast paced, high energy, and multidisciplinary settings? Are you committed to helping people recover when experiencing a mental health crisis? If you've answered yes to all please get in touch!

We're excited to advertise this Consultant Clinical Psychologist role to provide strategic oversight and governance of psychological professions and interventions in an expanding Mental Health Urgent Care service. This is an exciting role in which you will have opportunity to contribute to innovations aimed at improving people's experiences when they first need support from mental health services and when experiencing a period of acute distress. There is opportunity for direct clinical work as well as influencing psychological thinking at levels of the system.

This 1.0 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist role across Mental Health Urgent Care will be based with the supportive Inpatient and Urgent Care Psychological Services team which is part of the wider sub‑directorate. There are other Consultant Clinical Psychologists in service already covering inpatient wards for older people and inpatient wards for adults of working age. While your role will be working into Urgent Care, there is opportunity for working with other psychological practitioners, developing areas of special interest, and nurturing a team of psychological practitioners.

Main duties of the job

Using your expert knowledge and skills you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with people experiencing mental health crisis. You will be responsible for the governance of psychological interventions and provide expert psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services, and also the wider Urgent Care pathway. You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties as well as managing your own clinical caseload. There is much opportunity for work at different levels of the system and this is an excellent role if you like variety in your work life.

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
• 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.

Job responsibilities

This role requires highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi‑professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offers back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of people experiencing mental health crisis. Mental Health Urgent Care services are currently engaged in a significant transformation programme focusing on improving access, outcomes, and experience for those using Urgent Care services. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate pathways of care.

This role is a key member of the senior clinical leadership team within Mental Health Acute Services. Under the professional leadership and operational management of the Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions, and working closely with operational leads in the service, this role will provide clinical leadership and governance for parts of Mental Health Urgent Care services.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the designated services
• Post‑doctoral training relevant to the post.
• Extensive experience of team working.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience

• Extensive experience of clinical leadership and service development.
• Extensive experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties and those experiencing mental health crises.
• Extensive experience of delivering highly specialist services.
• Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.

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

£76,965 to £88,682 a year per annum pro rata