Trainee Forensic Psychologist | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the United Kingdom seeks a Band 6 trainee Forensic Psychologist. This role involves delivering psychological assessments and treatments for individuals with learning disabilities and autism in secure settings. The successful candidate will receive support for skill development through supervision and training. Benefits include generous leave, development opportunities, salary sacrifice schemes, and wellbeing support. This position is integral to a collaborative team, striving to enhance patient outcomes in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee assistance Programme discounts

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Relevant experience working with forensic populations or individuals with intellectual disabilities.
• Ability to deliver psychological assessments and formulations.
• Experience in therapeutic approaches like CBT, EMDR, and DBT.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychological assessment and individual/group treatment.
• Contribute to service development through audit and evaluation.
• Work collaboratively with the psychology and multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Forensic assessment skills

Therapeutic skills

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a developmental Band 6 trainee Forensic Psychologist role with progression into a Band 7 (subject to qualification and HCPC registration) in the Secure Services for people with Intellectual Disabilities. The postholder will work into the secure wards under the supervision of an established team of Clinical and Forensic Psychologists. The secure service ethos is to help and support people who present considerable risk to others (as well as themselves) to return to a less restrictive environment and/or the community as soon as possible. The contribution of psychological services is highly valued within the teams and service management, and it is fully integrated within collaborative multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

The key elements of the role include delivering psychological assessment, (including assessment and monitoring of risk); formulation; individual and group treatment for people with learning disabilities and autism under the supervision of a qualified Forensic /Clinical Psychologist. The role involves working in collaboration with other members of the psychology and multidisciplinary team. The post holder will contribute to service development through audit, service evaluation and research and training and delivery of reflective practice. The psychology department at Brooklands is a well-established and supportive service and the successful applicant will receive support to further develop their skills and knowledge, through good quality supervision and training opportunities. The team works from different therapeutic approaches including CBT, CAT, CFT, EMDR and Schema Therapy. The service offers a range of clinical and offence focused treatment programmes e.g., DBT and structured offence programmes and PBS is embedded in the service.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have relevant experience of working with forensic populations and/or considerable experience of working with people with Intellectual (learning) disabilities who present considerable risk to others. The post holder will be supported to develop their forensic assessment skills and/or therapeutic skills in a model applicable to the service user population. The service has strong links with local clinical and forensic training doctorate courses and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical and forensic psychologists, clinical associate’s in psychology, supervision for research, and teaching on the courses. There are also strong links with community learning disability teams across Coventry, Warwickshire, and Solihull.

Benefits

• 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 group

See the Job Description and Person Specification for further information about the role. This advert closes on Friday 26 Dec 2025