Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Mental Health Urgent Care
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £76,965 - £88,682 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Coventry, CV2 2TE |
| Cwmni: | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7524339/444-7524339-MH |
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A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
Are you a Clinical Psychologist with experience working in Mental Health Urgent Care settings? Do you thrive in fast paced, high energy, and multidisciplinary settings? Are you committed to helping people recover when experiencing a mental health crisis? If you've answered yes to all please get in touch!
We're excited to advertise this Consultant Clinical Psychologist role to provide strategic oversight and governance of psychological professions and interventions in an expanding Mental Health Urgent Care service. This is an exciting role in which you will have opportunity to contribute to innovations aimed at improving people's experiences when they first need support from mental health services and when experiencing a period of acute distress. There is opportunity for direct clinical work as well as influencing psychological thinking at levels of the system.
This is a 1.0 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist role across Mental Health Urgent Care. You will join our supportive Inpatient and Urgent Care Psychological Services team which is part of the wider sub-directorate. There are other Consultant Clinical Psychologists in service already covering inpatient wards for older people and inpatient wards for adults of working age. While your role will be working into Urgent Care, there is opportunity for working with other psychological practitioners, developing areas of special interest, and nurturing a team of psychological practitioners.
Using your expert knowledge and skills you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with people experiencing mental health crisis. You will be responsible for the governance of psychological interventions and provide expert psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services, and also the wider Urgent Care pathway. You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties as well as managing your own clinical caseload. There is much opportunity for work at different levels of the system and this is an excellent role if you like variety in your work life.
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.
This role requires highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi-professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offers back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of people experiencing mental health crisis. Mental Health Urgent Care services are currently engaged in a significant transformation programme focusing on improving access, outcomes, and experience for those using Urgent Care services. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate pathways of care.
This role is a key member of the senior clinical leadership team within Mental HealthAcute Services. Under the professional leadership and operational management of the Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions, and working closely with operational leads in the service, this role will provide clinical leadership and governancefor parts of Mental Health Urgent Care services.
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025
Are you a Clinical Psychologist with experience working in Mental Health Urgent Care settings? Do you thrive in fast paced, high energy, and multidisciplinary settings? Are you committed to helping people recover when experiencing a mental health crisis? If you've answered yes to all please get in touch!
We're excited to advertise this Consultant Clinical Psychologist role to provide strategic oversight and governance of psychological professions and interventions in an expanding Mental Health Urgent Care service. This is an exciting role in which you will have opportunity to contribute to innovations aimed at improving people's experiences when they first need support from mental health services and when experiencing a period of acute distress. There is opportunity for direct clinical work as well as influencing psychological thinking at levels of the system.
This is a 1.0 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist role across Mental Health Urgent Care. You will join our supportive Inpatient and Urgent Care Psychological Services team which is part of the wider sub-directorate. There are other Consultant Clinical Psychologists in service already covering inpatient wards for older people and inpatient wards for adults of working age. While your role will be working into Urgent Care, there is opportunity for working with other psychological practitioners, developing areas of special interest, and nurturing a team of psychological practitioners.
Using your expert knowledge and skills you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with people experiencing mental health crisis. You will be responsible for the governance of psychological interventions and provide expert psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services, and also the wider Urgent Care pathway. You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties as well as managing your own clinical caseload. There is much opportunity for work at different levels of the system and this is an excellent role if you like variety in your work life.
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.
This role requires highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi-professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offers back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of people experiencing mental health crisis. Mental Health Urgent Care services are currently engaged in a significant transformation programme focusing on improving access, outcomes, and experience for those using Urgent Care services. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate pathways of care.
This role is a key member of the senior clinical leadership team within Mental HealthAcute Services. Under the professional leadership and operational management of the Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions, and working closely with operational leads in the service, this role will provide clinical leadership and governancefor parts of Mental Health Urgent Care services.
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025