A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic practitioner psychologist (clinical/forensic/counselling) to join CWPT’s Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) service as Clinical Lead.
Working in this area of mental health is a fantastic use of a psychologist’s skills. If you are interested in utilising your experience in innovative ways that brings psychological thinking to the interface between criminal justice and mental health settings, then please call us to talk further.
This post will be based with the Mental Health Treatment Requirement Service, which works closely with the Liaison and Diversion Team as well as the Forensic Community Mental Health Team. Core functions of the Clinical Lead role include providing information to inform sentencing, ensuring robust oversight of the intervention and delivering successful clinical outcomes and MHTRs in practice. This role and service are key in improving outcomes for clients with mental health support needs who are in contact with the criminal justice system.
This Principal Psychologist role will allow you to develop your skills as a clinical psychologist, leading the delivery of MHTRs, and developing provision in line with an exciting national agenda. This role will be essential in ensuring quality interventions in the MHTR service, working in liaison with colleagues across the health and criminal justice systems, and offering supervision and leadership for Mental Health Treatment Requirement Practitioners (Assistant Psychologists).
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.
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To work as a member of psychology services providing a high quality,specialist applied psychology service to patients and their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations.
To support specialist psychological assessments of service users attending Court to establish the appropriateness of a Mental Health Treatment Requirement. To supervise and support the assessment, formulation and treatment interventions provided by Assistant Psychologists.
In addition to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025