Consultant Practitioner Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

The closing date is 02 March 2026

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.

• 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.

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.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed description of the main duties of the role. In summary

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…