Senior Practitioner Psychologist – Inpatient Learning Disability (0.7FTE)

Bidvane; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car

Discounts via NHS schemes

Wellbeing support

Staff networks and support groups

Good quality supervision

Preceptorship programme

Job summary

The Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust is seeking a practitioner psychologist for the inpatient learning disability service at Brooklands Hospital on a 0.7 WTE basis. The role combines clinical assessment, individual and group therapy, supervision, and service development.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, contribute to audits and research, and support staff with psychological interventions, with HCPC registration and doctoral training required.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral training in applied psychology approved by the HCPC, or equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK.
• Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• Experience with learning disability and comorbid conditions; inpatient experience.

Responsibilities

• Carry out psychological assessments and deliver individual and group therapies
• Provide team formulation and reflective practice within multi-disciplinary teams
• Support other staff to deliver psychological interventions
• Provide training and supervision to other staff
• Lead and contribute to service development projects
• Undertake audit and research
• Develop groups and other interventions with other psychologists
• Work as an integrated member of collaborative multi-disciplinary teams

Skills

Specialist assessment methods

Team-based work

Research & audit

Clinical supervision

Education

Doctoral training in applied psychology

Job description

The Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust is seeking a practitioner psychologist for the inpatient learning disability service at Brooklands Hospital on a 0.7 WTE basis. The role combines clinical assessment, individual and group therapy, supervision, and service development.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, contribute to audits and research, and support staff with psychological interventions, with HCPC registration and doctoral training required.