Principal Clinical Psychologist (Mental Health in Schools Teams)

at  Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

The post holder will support the governance, leadership and delivery of the MHST model within identified school and colleges. This will include considering outcomes and caseload flow so as to ensure as a service we are delivering a robust and continually improving approach, in order to promote the development, welfare and secure the wellbeing of children and young people and their families. The post holder will support the team in developing whole school and college approaches to mental health. The post holder will have oversight of the supervision requirements and delivery to the team members ensuring that the MHST model is adhered to.
The post holder will deliver services that are responsive to local and national directives and need, promoting a learning culture that leads to improved service delivery and robust clinical governance. The post holder will oversee the provision of high-quality specialist clinical psychological interventions and services to service users. The post holder will provide specialist psychological formulation, assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines to patients families carers and school staff. The post holder will support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other clinicians involved with these services, working autonomously within professional guidelines, exercising full clinical responsibility, and implementing changes where necessary.
The post holder will work co-operatively with multidisciplinary colleagues, operational and transformational leads to contribute to service development and to achieve service goals. The post holder will be expected to provide clinical supervision to other psychological services staff which may include some or all of the following: qualified psychologists, trainee and assistant psychologists, CBT Therapists, Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), or other psychological services staff

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