Job summary

The post sits within the Coventry Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). This is an exciting opportunity to work in a supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, with people who are experiencing a period of mental health crisis in their lives. This service offers a creative and flexible way for a clinical psychologist to work, with lots of opportunity for direct and indirect client contact, and clinical leadership. A degree of autonomy is expected but the post exists within a very supportive network of clinical and counselling psychologists, who you would share office space with. The CRHTT value psychological ways of understanding and working with service users and you will be able to work closely with MDT colleagues. The services cover a diverse community and we hope to reflect that in our workforce, therefore we particularly welcome applications from people from minority ethnic backgrounds.

Main duties of the job

You would be working within a multidisciplinary team, with clients with a wide range of presenting difficulties, including complex trauma, co-morbidity and requiring comprehensive safety planning. The focus of the team is to prevent admission to hospital and facilitate timely discharge from hospital, using a trauma-informed approach. Your role includes offering face to face assessments, formulations, and brief interventions (focusing on stabilisation and helping the individual make sense of their experience), and indirect clinical work with the MDT (e.g. consultation, team formulation, helping with care planning, safe discharge planning). There is an experienced Assistant Psychologists in post who can support your work.

About us

Candidate Information Pack Dec 24

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.

• 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.

Date posted: 09 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 9 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 444-8137095-MH
Job locations: Caludon Centre, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2TE, United Kingdom

Job description

You would be accountable to the Principal Clinical Psychologist who works across the 3 Crisis teams and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist over the Urgent Care Services. Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology registered by the HPC, specifically including models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.

Knowledge

• Essential: Excellent written communication skills

Experience

• Essential: Experience in Mental health care settings
• Essential: Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
• Essential: Experience of tailoring psychological services to individual needs.

Other

• Essential: Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address: Caludon Centre, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2TE, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Dr Eleanor Carpenter
eleanor.carpenter@covwarkpt.nhs.uk
07956898405

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