Higher Level Assistant Clinical Psychologist - Band 5 Coventry, England
Job description
Assistant Clinical Psychologist - Adult inpatient mental health services
BRAND NEW ROLE!
Are you currently working in an inpatient setting and interested in supporting service users and staff to ensure mental health wards are as therapeutic and recovery focussed as possible? Do you want a varied role? Are you organised and interested in clinical data? Do you thrive on challenge? If so, please get in touch to talk about working in our adult inpatient mental health services in CWPT!
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We are a growing group of psychologists (particularly Assistant Psychologists) with psychology provision expanding across our service. There are robust clinical leadership structures in place, with Senior and Principal Psychologists in role, and all Psychologists supported by one of four Consultant Psychologists - one for each broad service area. We are a friendly group, that meets regularly, and there is much opportunity for both formal and informal contact with peers. We have a strong ethos of looking after our staff and we work hard to ensure that people’s strengths and skills are evident, and nurtured, and people feel happy to come to work. Psychology is seen as a valuable resource across our Inpatient and Urgent Care teams and wards, and you will receive robust supervision and line management support, from within Inpatient and Urgent Care Psychological Services.
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.
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
Inpatient psychological practitioners are an integral part of the team, engaging in co-production with staff, as well as people who use our service. We are keen to hear from those people who have a strong recovery ethos, have experience of working in inpatient services, are car drivers, and have worked across adult and older adult services (all essential); experience of writing complex reports and/or for publication is also desirable.
Please note at all sites car parking is free.
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.
