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Job summary

Main area
Clinical Health Psychology Service
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (monday-friday)
Job ref
444-6268808-BL
Employer
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Newfield House
Town
Coventry
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust logo

Principal Clinical Psychologist 8B

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services

We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’

Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.

PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.

Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team.   If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.

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Job overview

Would you enjoy joining with colleagues from multiple statutory agencies in designing and developing truly integrated ways of working in the community to deliver the best possible care to people with physical health conditions in Coventry.

Are you looking to work with people at a point when you can make a significant impact on their quality of life and that of the people that matter to them? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with your multidisciplinary colleagues to support delivery of psychological approaches? Would you enjoy the opportunities that working in community physical health services offer?

We are a growing and very friendly clinical health psychology team. The Out of Hospital Clinical Health Psychology Service works very closely with our multidisciplinary colleagues to enable to best possible outcomes for the persons physical and mental wellbeing. Our work is community based allowing us the privilege of meeting the person in their own home or providing clinic-based work. Meeting the psychological needs of people with physical health difficulties has national focus and you would be encouraged to work internally and externally to the trust, to ensure clinically robust provision is available to all who need it. We encourage and support professional development opportunities and would look to embed this learning across the Trust’s Directorate.

Main duties of the job

To lead the development of psychological provision to specific elements of the new integrated care approach being developed across Coventry.

To provide consultation to colleagues, and specialist assessment and treatment to patients and their families receiving care from multi-disciplinary colleagues across all teams working within Coventry Out of Hospital Services. Coventry Out of Hospital Services provide emergency, acute and planned nursing care and allied health professional therapy within the community for house bound patients or people receiving specialist care such as Parkinson’s Disease, wound care, and palliative care

Contribute to the development of psychological practice across all Out of Hospital teams through teaching, collaboration and supervision.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling
  • Psychology registered by the HPC, specifically including models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job.
  • Assessed post-qualification experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist., including neuropsychological experience, sufficient to have completed Band 7 preceptorship requirements
  • Experience of working with people and their carers in a physical health setting
  • Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust’s services, and to work in the agile model

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jane Everett
Job title
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
024 76 237034
Additional information

Jane Everett 

Tel: 02476 237034/07879694717

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