Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - Principal Clinical or Educational Psychologist (MHST)

Job summary
Are you an experienced psychologist with a strong belief in the importance of prevention and early intervention? Can you work well within a friendly team with a variety of professions, making the most of the different skills and knowledge of your colleagues? Are you passionate about what psychology offers to support and develop a strong service?

The Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) is part of our Early Help offer, supporting children and young people through direct 1-1 work and working with parents/carers and schools and colleges. This new role is designed to ensure that the clinical delivery is consistent with the national MHST model, and is clinically excellent.

We are seeking a Principal Psychologist who is excited at the prospect of developing the service through the evaluation of practice, and with reference to the evidence-base. We need a forward-thinking Applied Psychologist, and we are therefore open to applications from Clinical or Educational Psychologists with the right experience. This role will be exciting for a confident psychologist with experience of working in an education setting because the service is delivered in schools and colleges.

Our next step is to design and execute internal research projects and contribute our learning to the practice of MHSTs across the country. This will require excellent communication and presentation skills so we can share our findings through conferences, publications and dissemination to the communities of practice for MHST.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the clinical delivery of prevention and early intervention within the MHST model of service delivery.
• Represent psychological professions within the leadership team and work with the Service Manager to ensure that the team's need for CPD and training are met. This will be responsive local and national directives and developments for MHST practice.
• Working with the Service Manager, ensure that individual clinicians are able to perform their role effectively. This will include ensuring that recruitment, support and training are creating a confident, vibrant and forward-thinking staff team.
• Oversee the provision of high-quality specialist clinical psychological interventions and services delivered in MHST.
• Provide support for psychological assessment and therapy delivered by other clinicians, working autonomously within professional and ethical guidelines, exercising full clinical responsibility, and implementing changes as required.
• Provide clinical supervision to other psychological services staff.
• Develop a research-friendly clinical service, actively seeking opportunities to design and execute small research projects.
• Participate in projects and meetings in the Children's Services directorate to ensure that the MHST is represented in developments.
• Hold a small caseload of clinical work within MHST's boundaries.

About us
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
• flexible working opportunities
• 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. 

How to apply 
Apply via the link. You will also find the full job description and person specification.

For questions about the job, contact Heather Moran, Consultant Clinical/Educational Psychologist: heather.moran@covwarkpt.nhs.uk

Additional information 
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration (HCPC). For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Applicants should note that this post is not on Soulbury Pay and Conditions.