• Job Description

  Req#: C9444-26-0070?language=en&page=80&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist/ Cognitive Behaviour Therapist - Full time

  We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist/CBT to join our Coventry Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). The team works with people with complex and enduring mental health difficulties such as complex trauma, mood disorders, and co-morbid physical and other mental health difficulties.

  Psychological therapists within the CMHT are an exciting and vibrant mix of clinicians who offer a range of interventions including CBT, CBT-PD, EMDR, DBT-informed work, and CFT. The post would provide excellent opportunities in terms of developing specialist skills in psychological models of care.

  Psychological therapists are embedded within the CMHT and we are therefore looking for someone who values and enjoys multi-disciplinary working and has a high level of understanding of the distinct contribution and added value that psychological approaches can make to service provision.

  The job will involve providing specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and evidence based psychological interventions (individual and group) to service users. The role also includes joint work with colleagues in the form of team formulation, staff training, support and consultation around psychological issues and reflective practice, alongside audit, service development, evaluation and research activities as required.

  Main duties of the job

  With the support and supervision of a senior Psychological Therapist you will provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and evidence based psychological interventions (individual and group) to service users accessing the non-psychosis pathway of the Community Mental Health Team presenting with complex and enduring mental health difficulties.

  You will also be encouraged to be involved inaudit, service development, evaluation and research activities.

  For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

  About us

  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.

  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 group

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  18 February 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum / pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

  Reference number

  444-7779844A-MH

  Job locations

  Paybody Building

  Stoney Stanton Road

  Coventry

  CV1 4FS

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • To have undertaken a recognised qualification and to be appropriately regulated in one of the core mental health professions eg. nursing, social work, psychology and occupational therapy, or substantial previous experience as an NHS psychotherapist
  • Qualification in a recognised psychological therapy, to master's level or equivalent.

  Knowledge and skills

  Essential

  • Ability to provide Cognitive Behavioural and/or other psychological therapy to individuals within a CMHT
  • Knowledge of a range of models currently used in Community Mental Health Services
  • Well developed skills in effective communication of highly technical or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS
  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
  • Advanced IT skills, for recording work activity, for searching data bases and the internet, for word processing and preparing presentations, and for using email and intranet systems.
  • Good oral and written skills
  • Awareness and understanding of ethical issues that arise in this area of work

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of legislation and policy as it effects this client group
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups and non-professional groups. This includes the capacity to sensitively advise, support, educate and mentor other professionals regarding therapy with people with complex mental health presentations

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of working with individuals with complex trauma.
  • Relevant experience of working in a mental health setting within a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Experience of the assessment of the suitability of prospective clients for a recognised psychological therapy.
  • Experience of or willingness to contribute to the clinical supervision of less qualified staff and/or trainees utilising both group and individual formats
  • Experience of the application of psychological treatment in different cultural contexts

  Desirable

  • Experience of teaching and training
  • Experience of working with group dynamics and group processes
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of clients across the whole adult life with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
  • Experience of the assessment, formulation and treatment of high risk clients in crisis, who experience high levels of suicidal ideation, and frequently engage in deliberate self-harm.

  Other

  Essential

  • Must hold a current driving licence and have independent means of transport.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • To have undertaken a recognised qualification and to be appropriately regulated in one of the core mental health professions eg. nursing, social work, psychology and occupational therapy, or substantial previous experience as an NHS psychotherapist
  • Qualification in a recognised psychological therapy, to master's level or equivalent.

  Knowledge and skills

  Essential

  • Ability to provide Cognitive Behavioural and/or other psychological therapy to individuals within a CMHT
  • Knowledge of a range of models currently used in Community Mental Health Services
  • Well developed skills in effective communication of highly technical or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS
  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
  • Advanced IT skills, for recording work activity, for searching data bases and the internet, for word processing and preparing presentations, and for using email and intranet systems.
  • Good oral and written skills
  • Awareness and understanding of ethical issues that arise in this area of work

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of legislation and policy as it effects this client group
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups and non-professional groups. This includes the capacity to sensitively advise, support, educate and mentor other professionals regarding therapy with people with complex mental health presentations

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of working with individuals with complex trauma.
  • Relevant experience of working in a mental health setting within a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Experience of the assessment of the suitability of prospective clients for a recognised psychological therapy.
  • Experience of or willingness to contribute to the clinical supervision of less qualified staff and/or trainees utilising both group and individual formats
  • Experience of the application of psychological treatment in different cultural contexts

  Desirable

  • Experience of teaching and training
  • Experience of working with group dynamics and group processes
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of clients across the whole adult life with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
  • Experience of the assessment, formulation and treatment of high risk clients in crisis, who experience high levels of suicidal ideation, and frequently engage in deliberate self-harm.

  Other

  Essential

  • Must hold a current driving licence and have independent means of transport.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

  Address

  Paybody Building

  Stoney Stanton Road

  Coventry

  CV1 4FS

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

  Address

  Paybody Building

  Stoney Stanton Road

  Coventry

  CV1 4FS

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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