# Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinicalcounselling-psychologist/c874e9e7-93bd-4d5c-bca4-30c6a2084b90 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinicalcounselling-psychologist/c874e9e7-93bd-4d5c-bca4-30c6a2084b90.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - **Town:** Coventry - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Closing date:** 2026-07-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-17T15:42:58.189Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Nuneaton/Coventry_Warwickshire_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Principal_Clinical_Counselling_Psychologist/Principal_Clinical_Counselling_Psychologist-v8165123 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8165123?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist- North Warwickshire Early Intervention Service - hours An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Clinical or Counselling psychologist to join our North Warwickshire Early Intervention Service. The service provides biopsychosocial interventions for individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis or at risk mental state (ARMS). The service also provides carers support and Behavioural Family Therapy for families of individuals experiencing first episode of psychosis or ARMS. ### Main duties of the job You will join a multi-disciplinary team and be responsible for leading and overseeing psychological provision provided by others in the service. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments and formulations and the delivery of evidence based therapies for individuals with psychosis or ARMS and supervising others delivering therapies in the service. The other psychological professionals in the team consist of a Senior Psychologist, CBTp Therapist and an Assistant Psychologist. The service has strong links with the Coventry and Warwickshire Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course. Therefore you will also be expected to support clinical psychology trainees and other psychological professionals in their training and development. Research is also highly valued and we welcome people who support our research vision. You will also be expected to provide leadership and oversight around service development. You will need to work collaboratively with your peers and the leadership team across the Early Intervention Service to support with the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP) standards. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The psychological professionals’ team are dedicated to delivering evidence based therapies of CBT for psychosis and trauma focused therapies. Therefore for the post holder a recognised qualification, current training or commitment to undertake training in CBT for psychosis is highly desirable. In addition to holding a current professional registration with the HCPC as a clinical or counselling psychologist it would also be advantageous for the post holder to be BABCP accredited or willing to work towards accreditation. Staff from the North Warwickshire Early Intervention Service have close links with other psychological professionals within the Trust though service development meetings, specialist interest groups, CPD events and our Annual Psychological Services Conference. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the main responsibilities of the post. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust’s services ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial experience of working with people in Secondary Care Mental Health Services - 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for work - Experience of teaching, training, and supervising of qualified staff and doctoral level trainees ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registration with the HCPC in Clinical or Counselling Psychology ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Post-doctoral training relevant to the post - Experience of team working - Evidence of continuing professional development - Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 436.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10466826) - [flexible working policy (pdf, 347.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1155) - [application guidance notes (pdf, 157.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1157) - [terms and conditions nhs jobs (pdf, 19.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1158) - [equality and diversity leaflets (pdf, 838.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1159) - [the prince's trust help 16-30 year olds into work (pdf, 192.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2706) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.