# 8B Lead Practitioner Psychologist -Full time, 4 x part time > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/8b-lead-practitioner-psychologist-full-time-4-x-part-time/9ed955cf-9ddb-43db-bff5-52a49fe7082f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/8b-lead-practitioner-psychologist-full-time-4-x-part-time/9ed955cf-9ddb-43db-bff5-52a49fe7082f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Farnham Road Hospital (Mental Health Unit) - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £68,852 - £79,638 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata. - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, - **Closing date:** 2026-09-07T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-07T09:10:48.173Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Godalming/Surrey_Borders_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Psychology/Clinical_Psychology-v8184500 - **Employer website:** https://www.sabp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting - Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work. - Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies - Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation - Demonstrable experience of developing complex formulations drawing on multiple psychological models - Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk ### Qualifications **Essential** - HCPC Registration - Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees - Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent **Desirable** - Additional leadership/management study - Additional academic qualification relevant to area of work ## Documents - [vacancy links (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2727) - [carers information (pdf, 604.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2716) - [sabp competency profile map (pdf, 672.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2714) - [mindful employer information (pdf, 195.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2715) - [benefits of nhs pension scheme (pdf, 264.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2717) - [lead practitioner psychologist band 8b jd (pdf, 275.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10488277) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.