8B Lead Practitioner Psychologist -Full time, 4 x part time

Job overview

This is an exciting time to join Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as we continue to transform adult community mental health services through our innovative Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. We are seeking experienced and compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who are passionate about delivering high-quality psychological care and shaping the future of community mental health services.

Available Locations and Hours

• Waverley – 0.4 WTE (15 hours per week)
• Elmbridge – 0.4 WTE (15 hours per week)
• Epsom – 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week)
• Reigate – 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week)
• North East Hampshire (NEH) – 1.0 WTE (37.5 hours per week)

Please mention in your supporting statement your first two preference locations

We are recruiting several Lead Practitioner Psychologists across a range of localities within our Complex Needs Service Line. These are influential senior leadership roles for highly skilled Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who are motivated to drive service development, champion psychologically informed care, and support multidisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding outcomes for people experiencing complex mental health difficulties.

These posts will be supported and supervised by the respective place-based Consultant Psychologist.

Main duties of the job

As the senior psychological professional within your Neighbourhood Team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological practice while maintaining a meaningful clinical caseload. Working alongside experienced multidisciplinary colleagues, you will help shape innovative models of care, embed evidence-based interventions and ensure that psychological thinking is at the heart of service delivery.

Please see JD for full key responsibilities, some of them included the following:

Provide professional leadership and governance for a highly specialist psychology service, ensuring safe, effective practice, compliance with legal and professional standards, and high-quality patient care.

Lead and develop the place-based psychological workforce, including supervision, appraisal, recruitment, workforce development, teaching, mentoring, and supporting students and junior staff.

Drive service improvement and strategic development through contributing to partnership working, policy and care pathway development and ensuring equity and inclusion for people with protected characteristics.

Deliver and promote expert psychological practice, including specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation, while leading audit, research, innovation and the implementation of national best practice standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.