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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Principle Perinatal Clinical Psychologist, Band 8b 0.6 WTE
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Principal Perinatal Clinical Psychologist to join our Perinatal Mental Health Team in Coventry and Warwickshire. This is a key clinical leadership role, supporting the development and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for adults experiencing a range of moderate to severe perinatal mental health difficulties such as trauma, mood disorders and co-morbid physical and mental health problems as well as difficulties in the bond with their baby.
You will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and consultation to psychological professionals and other multidisciplinary colleagues, alongside offering a highly specialist psychological therapies service to service users. Working closely with senior clinicians and operational managers, you will help to shape services, and embed trauma-informed and formulation-driven practice across the pathway.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions for adults with moderate to severe perinatal mental health problems.
- Offer consultation, and supervision to psychologists, trainees, and wider MDT colleagues.
- Lead on the safety and governance aspects of the delivery of psychological services in the team, including the management of referrals, ensuring processes around clinical data and information are followed and that staff have the training and development to practice safely within the limit of their competence.
- Take a leading role in service development, innovation, and evaluation, supporting implementation of NICE-concordant care.
- Contribute to workforce development, including leadership of psychology provision across the pathway.
- Develop strong partnerships across local services, community organisations, and voluntary sector partners to improve outcomes and accessibility.
- Champion psychological perspectives within the team, promoting recovery-focused and trauma-informed approaches
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
These are detailed in the job description.
We would welcome somebody who is a dynamic team orientated person who is keen on service development and ensuring that we provide a high quality timely service.
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist you will work alongside colleagues in the Psychology Service and wider MDT to ensure that we are meeting targets and working with the local population health needs.
About YouWe are looking for a clinician who is:
- A Clinical or Counselling psychologist who is HCPC-registered
- Experienced in working with adults with severe and complex mental health needs in community settings.
- Skilled in delivering, supervising, and evaluating evidence-based psychological therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CAT, EMDR, schema therapy).
- Confident in service development, leadership, and strategic influence within multidisciplinary teams.
- Committed to reducing health inequalities and promoting co-production with service users and carers. Passionate about supervision, reflective practice, and developing others. We welcome and questions on this rare opportunity.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Car driver
Knowledge
Essential
- Post-doctoral training relevant to the post
- Experience of team working.
- Experience in providing consultancy to colleagues.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working with people in the perinatal period.
- 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.
- Experience of neuropsychological assessment and therapy
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the HPC in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Further post – doctoral qualification / registration
- A recognised qualification, current training or commitment to undertake training in Perinatal Psychology or other NICE guideline treatment
- Expertise and/or training in Clinical Supervision for doctorate level trainees as may supervise trainee clinical Psychologist
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This advert is for Principle Perinatal Clinical Psychologist with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust in Coventry, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.
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