Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

This is a newly created role for a senior clinical psychologist to join a well established Children and Young People's Eating Disorder service. The role will require oversight of psychology across the whole of the team (in conjunction with the consultant clinical psychologist/Clinical Lead, and the other psychologists. In addition, there will be a primary focus on the Arfid pathway which requires development along with colleagues.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality specialist clinical psychological services to service users. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on service user's psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines, to patients' families and carers. To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other clinicians involved with these services, working autonomously within professional guidelines, exercising full clinical responsibility, and implementing changes where necessary.

To work co-operatively with multidisciplinary colleagues to achieve service goals. To contribute to service development.

The post holder will be expected to provide clinical supervision to other psychological services staff which may include some or all of the following: qualified psychologists, trainee and assistant psychologists, child psychotherapists and art therapists or other psychological services staff.

The post holder is expected to participate in service development and governance of psychological services practice within Integrated Children's Services.

About us

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), 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.