Job summary
We are seeking an experienced, innovative and highly motivated Consultant Practitioner Psychologist to provide strategic and clinical leadership within the Community Perinatal and Maternal Loss Pathway across Coventry and Warwickshire.
This senior role offers the opportunity to shape and further develop the delivery of specialist psychological therapies and trauma-informed interventions within a well-established, compassionate, and multidisciplinary service. The postholder will play a central role in driving excellence, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, service innovation, and patient outcomes.
You will work collaboratively across the internal Perinatal services and with key external partners, including maternity services, primary care, social care, and voluntary sector organisations. The role includes professional leadership of psychological staff, contributing to workforce development, and embedding evidence-based practice across the pathway.
As a senior clinical leader, you will provide highly specialist assessment, formulation, and intervention for complex perinatal presentations, including maternal loss and trauma. You will offer expert consultation and supervision to psychology colleagues and the wider MDT, while also contributing to service evaluation, audit, research activity, and strategic service development to continually enhance care for women, babies, and families during the perinatal period.
Main duties of the job
* To act as a specialist perinatal psychology resource to the wider Trust and across the professional community, supporting a team of staff who work with patients with moderate to severe presentations e.g. tokophobia, PTSD/ birth trauma, complex emotional needs).
* Demonstrate strong professional leadership for Psychological Services within our Perinatal Mental Health Services and Loss Pathway across Coventry and Warwickshire.
* Provide highly specialist psychological advice including demonstrating expertise in specialist assessment methods, evidence-based psychological therapies and interventions relevant to the pathway.
* To be responsible for the good clinical governance of the work of psychologists and psychological therapists in the Perinatal Services and the Maternal Loss Pathway
* Work closely with the Operational Service Manager and other leads to interpret and deliver national clinical guidance and key targets in relation to the performance perinatal mental health.
* Ensure that psychological services staff are invited to contribute to business planning, service developments and any programmes of change within Perinatal Mental Health Services.
* Responsibility for monitoring and improving the quality of psychological services and practice offered within perinatal mental health services including routine use of paired outcomes measures and service-user feedback.
* Provide oversight of research, audit, service evaluation and quality improvement activities within the service.
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.
* 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
24 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8c
Salary
£76,965 to £88,682 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
MH
Job locations
Willenhall Primary Care Centre
1 Remembrance Road
Coventry
CV3 3DG
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed description of the main duties of the role. In summary
Leadership & Management
Provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological provision within the Perinatal and Maternal Loss Pathway. You will lead and professionally manage psychological staff, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, workforce development, and effective use of resources. The role includes contributing to service demand management, pathway oversight, business planning, and clinical governance arrangements. You will play a central role in shaping the long-term strategic direction of the pathway and embedding a culture of reflective practice, learning, and continuous improvement.
Clinical Expertise
Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for women and families presenting with complex perinatal mental health difficulties, including trauma and maternal loss. You will hold clinical responsibility for complex and high-risk cases, providing expert consultation and specialist advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, partner agencies, and external stakeholders to ensure safe, effective, and trauma-informed care.
Service Development, Evaluation & Research
Lead on service innovation, quality improvement initiatives, and pathway development to enhance outcomes and reduce inequalities in access to perinatal mental health care. You will design and oversee audit, evaluation, and research activity within the service, ensuring findings inform practice development and commissioning priorities. The role includes contributing to research governance processes and promoting evidence-based, outcome-focused service delivery.
System Collaboration & Partnership Working
Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries, including maternity services, primary care, social care, voluntary sector providers, and commissioning bodies. You will provide psychological leadership within multi-agency forums, supporting integrated care pathways and strengthening system-wide approaches to perinatal and maternal loss support.
Education, Workforce Development & Supervision
Provide high-quality clinical and professional supervision to psychologists, trainees, and other MDT staff in line with professional and regulatory standards. Contribute to recruitment, appraisal, and workforce development processes. The role includes delivering training programmes, enhancing psychological skills within the wider workforce, and contributing to doctoral-level teaching and research supervision in partnership with academic institutions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed description of the main duties of the role. In summary
Leadership & Management
Provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological provision within the Perinatal and Maternal Loss Pathway. You will lead and professionally manage psychological staff, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, workforce development, and effective use of resources. The role includes contributing to service demand management, pathway oversight, business planning, and clinical governance arrangements. You will play a central role in shaping the long-term strategic direction of the pathway and embedding a culture of reflective practice, learning, and continuous improvement.
Clinical Expertise
Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for women and families presenting with complex perinatal mental health difficulties, including trauma and maternal loss. You will hold clinical responsibility for complex and high-risk cases, providing expert consultation and specialist advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, partner agencies, and external stakeholders to ensure safe, effective, and trauma-informed care.
Service Development, Evaluation & Research
Lead on service innovation, quality improvement initiatives, and pathway development to enhance outcomes and reduce inequalities in access to perinatal mental health care. You will design and oversee audit, evaluation, and research activity within the service, ensuring findings inform practice development and commissioning priorities. The role includes contributing to research governance processes and promoting evidence-based, outcome-focused service delivery.
System Collaboration & Partnership Working
Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries, including maternity services, primary care, social care, voluntary sector providers, and commissioning bodies. You will provide psychological leadership within multi-agency forums, supporting integrated care pathways and strengthening system-wide approaches to perinatal and maternal loss support.
Education, Workforce Development & Supervision
Provide high-quality clinical and professional supervision to psychologists, trainees, and other MDT staff in line with professional and regulatory standards. Contribute to recruitment, appraisal, and workforce development processes. The role includes delivering training programmes, enhancing psychological skills within the wider workforce, and contributing to doctoral-level teaching and research supervision in partnership with academic institutions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or other relevant Doctoral-level Practitioner Psychologist training pathway) as accredited by the BPS. To including models of Psychopathology, Clinical Psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct Psychological Therapies and lifespan Developmental Psychology
* Post-doctoral training and ongoing CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the post and/or as specified in the job advert
* Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Formal training and experience in supervision of qualified Psychological Practitioners
* Leadership training and experience relevant to the delivery of NHS psychological services
Knowledge
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies within the speciality
* High level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology.
* Knowledge of legislation for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
* Assessed substantial experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist including within the speciality
* Training and experience of adapting therapy protocols to meet the needs of new parents/carers
* Substantial post qualification experience of working with complex mental health difficulties, including experience of safeguarding procedures and risk assessment and management.
* Training and experience of providing and disseminating evidence-based practice within the speciality
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and stressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
* Experience of exercising full psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
* Experience of teaching and training psychological theory and approaches.
* Experience of supervising trainees and qualified practitioners.
* Experience of professional leadership of pre-qualified and qualified Psychological Practitioners.
* Experience of multiprofessional leadership of NHS teams or services within the designated speciality.
* Experience of multiprofessional leadership of NHS teams or services within the designated speciality.
* Experience of the application of psychology across different cultural contexts.
Other
Essential
* Must be a car driver with access to a car, insured for business use
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or other relevant Doctoral-level Practitioner Psychologist training pathway) as accredited by the BPS. To including models of Psychopathology, Clinical Psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct Psychological Therapies and lifespan Developmental Psychology
* Post-doctoral training and ongoing CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the post and/or as specified in the job advert
* Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Formal training and experience in supervision of qualified Psychological Practitioners
* Leadership training and experience relevant to the delivery of NHS psychological services
Knowledge
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies within the speciality
* High level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology.
* Knowledge of legislation for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
* Assessed substantial experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist including within the speciality
* Training and experience of adapting therapy protocols to meet the needs of new parents/carers
* Substantial post qualification experience of working with complex mental health difficulties, including experience of safeguarding procedures and risk assessment and management.
* Training and experience of providing and disseminating evidence-based practice within the speciality
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and stressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
* Experience of exercising full psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
* Experience of teaching and training psychological theory and approaches.
* Experience of supervising trainees and qualified practitioners.
* Experience of professional leadership of pre-qualified and qualified Psychological Practitioners.
* Experience of multiprofessional leadership of NHS teams or services within the designated speciality.
* Experience of multiprofessional leadership of NHS teams or services within the designated speciality.
* Experience of the application of psychology across different cultural contexts.
Other
Essential
* Must be a car driver with access to a car, insured for business use
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
Willenhall Primary Care Centre
1 Remembrance Road
Coventry
CV3 3DG
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Employer details
Employer name
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address
Willenhall Primary Care Centre
1 Remembrance Road
Coventry
CV3 3DG
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