Clinical Psychologists, Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Coventry

We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate clinician to join our Early Intervention and Community Mental Health Team Psychosis Pathway. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to high‑quality, evidence‑based care for individuals experiencing first episode psychosis and those with ongoing psychosis‑related needs within the community. The post‑holder will play a key role in delivering psychologically informed interventions, supporting multidisciplinary colleagues, and contributing to service development within the psychosis pathway. The role will be central to strengthening psychological practice across the pathway, providing formulation, consultation, and supervision to support staff and enhance patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Active involvement in shaping and implementing our new Enhanced Psychosis Pathway, ensuring it reflects best practice, emerging evidence, and the needs of our local population.
• Help lead on developing structures, processes and innovative approaches that improve access, quality, and continuity of care for service users and their families.
• Act as a specialist psychology resource for the Early Intervention and Community Mental Health Psychosis Pathway, providing expert support to multidisciplinary staff working with service users who present with moderate to severe and often complex psychosis‑related needs.
• Demonstrate strong professional leadership for Psychological Services within the Psychosis Pathway across Coventry and Warwickshire, supporting the development of psychologically informed practice and promoting high‑quality, evidence‑based care.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, including expertise in specialist assessment methods, psychological formulations, and evidence‑based therapies relevant to psychosis.
• Take responsibility for the clinical governance of psychologists and psychological therapists working within the Early Intervention and Community Mental Health psychosis services, ensuring safe, ethical, and effective practice aligned with national standards.
• Work closely with the Operational Service Manager and clinical leads to interpret and deliver national psychosis‑related clinical guidance, quality standards, and performance targets, supporting the service to meet local and national expectations.
• Lead on monitoring and improving the quality of psychological practice and service delivery.
• Provide professional oversight of research, audit, service evaluation, and quality‑improvement activity within the psychosis pathway.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological provision within the Psychosis and Early Intervention (EI) Pathway, managing psychological staff, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, effective caseload and demand management, workforce development, and optimal use of resources.
• Oversee pathway performance, contribute to business planning and ensure robust clinical governance processes.
• Shape the long‑term strategic direction of the psychosis and EI pathway, embedding a culture of reflective practice, learning, co‑production and continuous quality improvement.
• Lead on service innovation, pathway development and quality improvement initiatives to enhance outcomes and reduce inequalities in access to psychological interventions for individuals affected by psychosis.
• Design and oversee audit, evaluation and research activity within the pathway, ensuring findings inform practice development and align with national EI and psychosis standards.
• Collaborate across organisational boundaries, including acute care, community mental health services, primary care, social care, voluntary sector providers and commissioning bodies, providing psychological leadership across multi‑agency forums and supporting integrated psychosis care pathways.
• Strengthen system‑wide approaches to early detection, relapse prevention, and holistic support for individuals and families affected by psychosis.
• Provide high‑quality clinical and professional supervision to psychologists, trainees, CBT therapists and wider MDT staff in line with professional and regulatory standards.
• Contribute to recruitment, appraisal, and workforce development processes across the psychosis and EI pathway.
• Deliver training programmes, enhance psychological and formulation skills within the wider workforce, and contribute to doctoral‑level teaching, training and research supervision in partnership with academic institutions.

Recruitment and Safeguarding

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safe recruitment practice requires, where appropriate, that all newly appointed staff be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.

Equal Opportunities

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation.

Data Protection

For more information on how our Trust handles your data please view the 'Privacy Notice - Staff - V1.0 May 2018.pdf' at https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/privacy.

About the Trust

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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Well‑being support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support group.

Why Join Us

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.