Psychological Therapist | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Coventry seeks a Band 7 Psychological Professional to join their Primary Care service. Responsibilities include psychological assessments and therapy within a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring patients receive timely psychological support. The ideal candidate will have a registered therapeutic qualification and strong communication skills. The role offers excellent professional development opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience as a CBT therapist or registered psychological professional.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong communication skills for assessments and consultations.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
• Communicate assessment results and recommendations.
• Develop Primary Care Mental Health Services.

Skills

CBT therapy

Psychological assessment

Communication skills

Education

Registered therapeutic qualification

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Band 7 Psychological Professional working across Primary Care place-based teams in Coventry. We welcome and encourage applications from CBT therapists, registered psychological therapists, registered counsellors, clinical and counselling psychologists. This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025.

This is a unique opportunity to join the Psychology Service within our Primary Care-based Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, an ambitious service established over the past 2 years. We’re passionate about offering the right psychological support early on, and in this role, you’ll ensure our patients can access this care at the point of need.

You will be employed by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust but embedded within a group of GP practices (Primary Care Network) with a focus on supporting local patients living in Coventry, offering care at the point of need. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) environment and within an established Primary Care Psychology Service that is integrated within this MDT. This is a patient facing post with a meaningful impact on improving access, experience and outcomes for service users through early psychology assessments, formulations, brief psychological interventions and consultations in a recovery-focused way.

We recognise that placing specialist Psychology staff in GP practices will help people with mental health problems achieve the best possible outcomes. This is a clinical role with some development opportunities which may include supporting our CWPT junior psychology team members; communication with our clinical directors, GPs and wider GP practice colleagues; supporting the Psychology Leads in the coordination of day-to-day operational management needs and clinical issues arising from mental health service delivery. You will also contribute to delivering and co-developing the primary care mental health service model, including care pathways for integrated mental health care within the Primary Care Networks and CWPT.

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

Role responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data gained from a variety of sources.
• To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
• To communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form in order to support the work of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients, both within and outside the Trust.
• To contribute to the development of Primary Care Mental Health 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.
• To provide supervision to assistant psychologists, clinical associates in psychology, volunteers and other colleagues, as required.

Please see attached job description for full details of this role.

Advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025.