Senior Clinical or Forensic Psychologist (band 8a)

This position will involve working as part of the newly formed Community FASTER (Forensic Autism and learning disability Support, Training and Enhanced Risk management) team in the West Midlands, as directed by the lead psychologist. Community FASTER is a pilot project (running until September 2027), and is a Forensic Community LDA Service for people with learning disability and/or autistic people. It is a psychology-led service. Based on the core functions of the national specification for community forensic LD and autism services, Community FASTER is set up to provide:

• In-reach support to inpatient services to support safe and timely discharges
• Forensic risk assessment and management of risk in the community to ensure public safety and safety of the individual
• Delivery of therapeutic interventions
• Expert advice and training to other agencies, including health services, probation, police, and prison service.
• Consultancy and support
• A West Midlands-wide on-call service - clinical advice and urgent support for staff working with service users in the cohort outside core hours (Monday- Friday 8am-8pm)., The Clinical or Forensic Psychologist will support the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist Psychological Service to a wide range of patients who are referred to the service
They will:
• support other services (in line with the service model) in consultation, supervision, formulation and training. This will involve Face-to-Face psychological interventions.
• work within a multidisciplinary team in these services to achieve service goals.
• develop, within the MDT ways of providing efficient and effective services.
• provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions to patients and carers, as required.
• supervise and support psychological assessment, formulation and therapy provided by other clinicians involved with these services, working autonomously within professional guidelines, exercising full clinical responsibility, and implementing changes where necessary.
• supervise and give day to day management to junior psychological/therapist staff, as required.
  
  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.
• 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.