# Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-or-counselling-psychologist-band-8a/982ef590-2e63-4d72-8659-82df41451343 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-or-counselling-psychologist-band-8a/982ef590-2e63-4d72-8659-82df41451343.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Leatherhead - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £59,798 - £67,020 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata. - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-01T15:01:06.473Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Leatherhead/Surrey_Borders_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_MH/Adult_MH-v8100093 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8100093?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sabp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you passionate about transforming lives and delivering specialist psychological interventions to people with complex emotional needs? Our specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) team has been established for over 10 years. Recognising the significant benefits to people who access DBT, we are significantly increasing the team’s resources, so that it can have a greater impact across the Surrey and North-East Hampshire area. Due to expansion and service growth, we are expanding our team and are looking for 2 full time and one part time Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join us. Why Join Us? - Be part of a specialist service with over 10 years of DBT expertise. - Help shape and develop an expanding service with ambitious plans for the future. - Work alongside skilled, experienced and supportive multidisciplinary colleagues. - Access regular supervision, consultation and excellent professional development opportunities. - Make a genuine difference to the lives and opportunities of people with complex emotional needs. Come and Grow With Us This is an exciting time to join a thriving service that values innovation, clinical excellence and teamwork. If you're looking for a role where you can use your expertise to make a real and lasting impact, while being part of a supportive and ambitious team, we'd love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job - To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services. - To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students - Promoting a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues - Work collaboratively with team managers/ Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services - The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within the service - To lead on complex and challenging cases and develop expertise within area of specialism - Participating in the recruitment and selection of staff ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job ## Job Details Are you passionate about transforming lives and delivering specialist psychological interventions to people with complex emotional needs? Our specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) team has been established for over 10 years. Recognising the significant benefits to people who access DBT, we are significantly increasing the team’s resources, so that it can have a greater impact across the Surrey and North-East Hampshire area. Due to expansion and service growth, we are expanding our team and are looking for 2 full time and one part time Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join us. Why Join Us? Be part of a specialist service with over 10 years of DBT expertise. Help shape and develop an expanding service with ambitious plans for the future. Work alongside skilled, experienced and supportive multidisciplinary colleagues. Access regular supervision, consultation and excellent professional development opportunities. Make a genuine difference to the lives and opportunities of people with complex emotional needs. Come and Grow With Us This is an exciting time to join a thriving service that values innovation, clinical excellence and teamwork. If you're looking for a role where you can use your expertise to make a real and lasting impact, while being part of a supportive and ambitious team, we'd love to hear from you. ## Job Description To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services. To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students Promoting a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues Work collaboratively with team managers/ Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within the service To lead on complex and challenging cases and develop expertise within area of specialism Participating in the recruitment and selection of staff ## Responsibilities Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with people from across the life span with a range of mental health issues and cognitive profiles. - Experience across a range of psychological models including systemic, behavioural and individual therapeutic - Demonstrable post registration clinical experience, competencies and an interest in working with people with complex emotional needs. - Experience of contributing to clinical practice/service development/project work. - Experience of supervising assistant psychologists. - Evidence of leadership experience. - Training and/or experience of trauma interventions. - Training and/or experience of family interventions. - Experience of risk formulation and management. **Desirable** - Prior training in DBT (desirable). You will be supported to attend the NHSE funded PG Dip training in DBT ### Qualifications **Essential** - Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent - Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees (or completion within 6 months of commencement in post) ## 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) - [band 8a clinical/counselling psychologist_jd (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10394181) ## 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. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.