Clinical Support Assistant | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,392 - £31,157 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2026 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV1 4FS |
| Company: | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8056652/444-7974291B-MH |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Band 4 Clinical Support Assistant to join the Community Mental Health Team in Coventry, working with patients with both psychotic and non‑psychotic presentations. The team operates from a Coventry base, with clinical work carried out in the office and in patients’ homes.
We are seeking a candidate with strong knowledge and experience of working with service users who have a range of mental health difficulties, including psychosis, emotion regulation difficulties, depression, and anxiety. This experience may have been gained through prior learning, clinical placements, or relevant work in mental health services.
This role is diverse and will encompass the delivery of evidence‑based mental health psychoeducation and skills across a range of formats, including individual sessions, home-based work, clinic-based appointments, and occasional group interventions.
Applicants will also hold a defined caseload of appropriate patients, working under indirect supervision, and will provide interventions aligned with best practice and identified patient needs. A key component of the position is also the involvement in routine triage functions for all routine referrals made to the Coventry Community Mental Health Team. This includes assessing referral information, identifying appropriate care pathways, and contributing to the safe and efficient management of waiting lists across a range of interventions within the service.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary team, while also showing confidence and reliability when working independently. An understanding of professional boundaries, scope of practice, and when to seek guidance is essential. Strong organisational skills, effective time management, and the ability to prioritise a varied workload are critical to success in this role.
This team places a huge emphasis on training and ongoing supervision both in a group setting and individual basis.
Applicants should be thorough, boundaried and confident practitioners with a good understanding of Mental Health presentations. It is essential that candidates read the Job Description and Person Spec carefully to ensure they meet both the academic qualifications and experience listed there. Above all, the essential qualities we are looking for are warmth, compassion, empathy and the ability to be relatable.
Detailed Job Description has been attached to this advert
Having a full UK Driving Licence and access to and the use of a vehicle for attending appointments in the community is essential.
It is important for applicants to understand that this vacancy is for a Band 4 role, and as such applicants would need to demonstrate a wider range of skills and experience than would be required for a Band 3 post.
Please be mindful that to support your application, you will need to provide evidence/explanation around the below to help improve your chances of being offered an interview.
- Experience within a Community Mental Health setting. This does not necessarily need to be within a statutory team (though desirable), and could include experience within a charity, local authority or counselling service setting. Evidence of experience or understanding of Community Mental Health working and caseload management in such a setting is essential.
- Knowledge of the application of psychological skills, and if applicable evidence of the application of these in practice. Skills such as anxiety management, graded exposure, emotional regulation, and mood management are especially relevant to this role and a key aspect of this role. This can be through formalised qualifications or comparative clinical experience.
- Good knowledge of Mental Health concerns, symptomology and impact on clients’ lives; with the ability to consider how to gather information around this to inform the clinical triage process which is a pivotal part of this role.
Previous applicants are encouraged to use the above to refocus their applications.
Applications are screened for use of AI software.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Jun 2026