Principle Clinical Psychologist, Band 8b | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2025 |
| Location: | Leamington Spa / Stratford Upon Avon, CV31 1JN |
| Company: | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7446609/444-7446609-MH |
Summary
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Community Mental Health Team in South Warwickshire. This is a key clinical leadership role, supporting the development and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for adults experiencing a range of complex mental health difficulties such as trauma, mood disorders and co-morbid physical and mental health problems.
You will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and consultation to psychological professionals and other multidisciplinary colleagues, alongside offering a highly specialist psychological therapies service to service users. Working closely with senior clinicians and operational managers, you will help to shape services, and embed trauma-informed and formulation-driven practice across the pathway.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions for adults with complex needs predominantly within the non-psychosis pathway.
• Offer consultation, and supervision to psychologists, trainees, and wider MDT colleagues.
• Lead on the safety and governance aspects of the delivery of psychological services in the team, including the management of referrals, ensuring processes around clinical data and information are followed and that staff have the training and development to practice safely within the limit of their competence.
• Take a leading role in service development, innovation, and evaluation, supporting implementation of NICE-concordant care.
• Contribute to workforce development, including leadership of psychology provision across the pathway.
• Develop strong partnerships across local services, community organisations, and voluntary sector partners to improve outcomes and accessibility.
• Champion psychological perspectives within the team, promoting recovery-focused and trauma-informed approaches
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.
Please note: It is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
These are detailed in the job description.
We would welcome somebody who is a dynamic team orientated person who is keen on service development and ensuring that we provide a high quality timely service.
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist you will work alongside colleagues in the Psychology Service and wider MDT to ensure that we are meeting targets and working with the local population health needs.
About You
We are looking for a clinician who is:
• A Clinical or Counselling psychologist who is HCPC-registered
• Experienced in working with adults with severe and complex mental health needs in community settings.
• Skilled in delivering, supervising, and evaluating evidence-based psychological therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CAT, EMDR, schema therapy).
• Confident in service development, leadership, and strategic influence within multidisciplinary teams.
• Committed to reducing health inequalities and promoting co-production with service users and carers.
• Passionate about supervision, reflective practice, and developing others.
We welcome and questions on this rare opportunity.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025