# Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinicalcounselling-psychologist/a72735a4-f66e-4402-90e6-9ff78d18fe44 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinicalcounselling-psychologist/a72735a4-f66e-4402-90e6-9ff78d18fe44.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - **Town:** Coventry - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pa pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (to cover maternity leave) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-08T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-26T11:52:16.923Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Coventry/Coventry_Warwickshire_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Adult_Mental_Health/Adult_Mental_Health-v8023175 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8023175?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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 crisis in their lives. This service offers a creative and flexible way for a 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 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities 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. ## Job Details 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 crisis in their lives. This service offers a creative and flexible way for a 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 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. ## Job Description 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. ## Responsibilities 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - Evidence of continuing professional development. - Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the job. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with adults across the lifespan. - Experience of working psychologically with a range of people presenting with a range of difficulties who are very distressed and who may be engaging in unsafe behaviours. - Maintenance of professionalism in highly emotive and challenging circumstances. - Experience of tailoring psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individual needs, drawing on a range of psychological models as indicated. - Experience of utilising psychological assessment tools appropriate to client group. - Experience of psychological supervision of others. - Experience of working in Acute mental health settings - Experience of multi-disciplinary team working. - Experience in providing consultancy to colleagues and in provision of group supervision / case formulation. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or Doctoral level training in Counselling Psychology - Full registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10324372) - [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) ## 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.