Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

The Department of Clinical Health Psychology (South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust) has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our well established and supportive team based in Stratford upon Avon. This post is offered on a part-time or full-time basis, to include 0.5 WTE work within our specialist Pain Management Psychology service as part of the well-established and highly valued MDT, but with further opportunities to include work within the wider Clinical Health Psychology service up to 1.0 WTE. As a flexible employer we are happy to look at different working arrangements but do ask that you can work either Monday or Wednesday to support the Pain Management MDT Clinics.

There is a wealth of skill and expertise within the team, with team members variously trained in ACT, CFT, EMDR and CAT, and with opportunities for further training and supervision. We are a supportive team with excellent links with local Clinical Psychology training courses. The post holder will be well supported and supervised by senior Clinical Psychologists.

The post will involve both face to face and remote working. Some work will also necessitate travel to Warwick Hospital and other locations across the patch.

Whilst experience of working within physical health is ideal we would love to hear about other relevant experience too.Applications from newly qualified psychologists interested in a band 7 preceptorship are also welcome.

Main duties of the job

Development and provision of high quality specialised clinical psychology input and advice to patients and staff working in the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

To provide specialist clinical health psychology assessment and therapy to patients. To provide advice and consultation on patient care to colleagues and carers. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise individual responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the role. To support workforce development by offering training and supervision as required

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of working within a physical health setting.
• Experience and expertise in developing, facilitating and evaluating patient groups, with awareness of group dynamics.

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and families in a physical healthcare setting.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other Professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Personal

Essential

• Ability to approach the therapeutic work with compassion and empathy.
• Ability through these qualities to form good therapeutic alliance where appropriate.
• Ability to work well within a team

Other

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Must have own transport

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Closing Date: 23 November 2026