Consultant Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 27 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 April 2026 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV1 4FS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9444-26-0168 |
Summary
Leadership & Management Provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological provision within the Psychosis and Early Intervention (EI) Pathway. You will lead and professionally manage psychological staff, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, effective caseload and demand management, workforce development, and optimal use of resources. The role includes oversight of pathway performance, contributing to business planning, and ensuring robust clinical governance processes. You will play a central role in shaping the longterm strategic direction of the psychosis and EI pathway, embedding a culture of reflective practice, learning, coproduction, and continuous quality improvement. Clinical Expertise Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidencebased interventions for people experiencing first-episode psychosis or complex psychosisrelated presentations. This includes working with highrisk and highcomplexity cases, trauma-informed practice, and supporting individuals and families to understand and manage psychosis. You will hold clinical responsibility for complex cases within the pathway, providing expert consultation, formulation support, and specialist advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, partner agencies, and external stakeholders to ensure safe, effective, recoveryfocused care. Service Development, Evaluation & Research Lead on service innovation, pathway development, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance outcomes and reduce inequalities in access to psychological interventions for individuals affected by psychosis. You will design and oversee audit, evaluation, and research activity within the pathway, ensuring findings inform practice development and align with national EI and psychosis standards. The role includes contributing to research governance and promoting evidence-based, outcomefocused, NICErecommended psychological therapies across the service. System Collaboration & Partnership Working Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries, including acute care, community mental health services, primary care, social care, voluntary sector providers, and commissioning bodies. You will provide psychological leadership across multiagency forums, supporting integrated psychosis care pathways and contributing to effective transitions between services. The role involves strengthening system-wide approaches to early detection, relapse prevention, and holistic support for individuals and families affected by psychosis. Education, Workforce Development & Supervision Provide high-quality clinical and professional supervision to psychologists, trainees, CBT therapists, and wider MDT staff in line with professional and regulatory standards. Contribute to recruitment, appraisal, and workforce development processes across the psychosis and EI pathway. The role includes delivering training programmes, enhancing psychological and formulation skills within the wider workforce, and contributing to doctoral-level teaching, training, and research supervision in partnership with academic institutions.