Consultant Practitioner Psychologist
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
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Job overview
We are seeking a Practitioner Psychologist with a commitment to inclusion, equity, and culturally responsive care, to provide clinical leadership to a service supporting the mental health and well-being of migrant and refugee communities.
This Band 8c Practitioner Psychologist role offers a rare and exciting opportunity to serve as Clinical Lead for our Migrant Mental Health Service.
As Clinical Lead, you will hold overall responsibility for the strategic leadership, clinical quality, ensuring the service is accessible, culturally informed, and trauma-aware. You will play a central role in shaping the future of migrant mental health provision in Coventry and Warwickshire.
What We’re Looking For
You will be a highly experienced and compassionate Practitioner Psychologist with strong leadership skills, understanding of trauma in relation to sanctuary seeking communities, and a commitment to co-production and culturally responsive practice ,where your expertise will help build a service that is responsive, compassionate, and transformative.
You will be confident in leading complex services, providing effective support to staff, and influencing systems to reduce inequalities and improve access to care. The service works with both individuals and families, the ideal candidate will bring experience of working therapeutically with both adults and children and young people, and will be able to integrate this across a whole-family approach to care.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities- Provide clinical leadership for the Coventry and Warwickshire Migrant Mental Health team.
- Lead the ongoing development of the service, including referral pathways and the evolution of the clinical offer, actively incorporating the views and lived experience of service users.
- Develop the staffing structure for the Migrant Mental Health Service and develop clear, robust job plans that support high-quality, sustainable care.
- Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is provided to the psychological professions staff working in the team.
- Ensure the delivery of a culturally appropriate service, including the effective use of mental-health-trained interpreters.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary partners and colleagues to achieve agreed service outcomes and targets.
- Contribute actively to policy development, service improvement, and strategic planning across the wider system.
Working for our organisation
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 group
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registration with the HCPC in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or equivalent. Further post – doctoral qualification / registration
Experience
Essential criteria- Substantial experience of working with migrant and refugee communities
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
- Experience of a senior clinical leadership role, with evidence of leading a team and working with internal and external system partners.
- experience of working therapeutically with both adults and children and young people, and will be able to integrate this across a whole-family approach to care.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group.
- Well developed communication skills, suitable to the specialty.
- Experience in providing consultancy to colleagues.
- Knowledge of research and service evaluation methodology.
- Skills in the application of models of clinical supervision within the context of individual and team approaches.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
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