All members of the psychology team receive excellent support, good supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. There would be support and training provided to the post holder to support the development of their forensic assessment skills and/or therapeutic skills in a model applicable to the service user population. The service has strong links with local clinical and forensic training doctorate courses and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical and forensic psychologists, supervision for research, and teaching on the courses. There are also strong links with community learning disability teams across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
If you do not yet meet the criteria for the Band 8a role, we will also support applications from candidates that meet the criteria for the band 7 role and job description (please see additional documents on the NHS Jobs). In these instances, the successful candidate would be appointed to a developmental post role at Band 7 and provided opportunities and support to progress to the Band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme. It is expected that this process will be achievable within a period of up to two years, although time scales may vary between different staff members in Developmental Posts. In the event that elements of the expected competencies to progress to 8a are not fully met, the role will remain as band 7.
This will be further discussed as part of the interview and recruitment process as appropriate. Applications from newly qualified/soon to qualify clinicians would therefore be welcomed. The job description and person specification for the post are attached for further information.