8a Practitioner Psychologist -Fixed term till Jan 2026

NHS; Woking; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to provide high-quality psychological services within a pioneering Family Safeguarding model. This role involves working closely with parents facing severe parenting challenges, offering expert psychological assessments and interventions. You will collaborate with a dedicated team of professionals to enhance the wellbeing of families in need. The position promises a rewarding opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals while contributing to service development initiatives. If you are passionate about mental health and committed to improving family dynamics, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration required.
• Experience with adults/parents facing mental health challenges.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions.
• Supervise and support multidisciplinary team members.

Skills

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Psychology

Therapeutic Interventions

Supervision Skills

Service Development

Education

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

HCPC Registration as a Psychologist

Job description

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

My job makes better lives by providing psychological services to parents within Family Safeguarding. To provide clinical expertise to the Family Safeguarding Team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations.

The post will be based within the Family Safeguarding Service of Surrey County Council (permanently seconded from SABP). You will be managed and supervised by the Lead Clinical Psychologist within the Safeguarding service and work alongside a team of social workers and other professionals with parents where there is high risk of severe parenting problems including maltreatment and neglect.

Our ground-breaking family safeguarding model will bring together all the professionals we need, under one roof, to provide intensive support to parents to address the mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse that place children at risk of significant harm.

The candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role.

Please note this is a fixed term till end of January 2026.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• To adhere to professional code of conduct at all times
• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment of adults with mental health difficulties. To undertake the assessment utilising information from a broad range of structured psychometric and semi-structured clinical methods. To administer, score and interpret neuropsychological assessment where appropriate. To integrate all information into a psychological formulation of the client and his/her psychosocial environment, drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.
• To be responsible for the systematic provision of specialist psychology services to adults with complex, severe and enduring mental health difficulties within Family Safeguarding Teams
• To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
• To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking audit, research and service development activities relevant to the service area.
• To supervise and support the psychological therapy provided by other members of the multidisciplinary team

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent.
• HCPC Registration as a Psychologist

Experience

• Proven experience of working with adults/parents with mental health difficulties (can be pre-qualification).
• Working knowledge of the traditional models of psychotherapy and the evidence for their use, with detailed knowledge of two or more models.
• Up-to-date knowledge of key policies and guidelines for adults with mental health difficulties
• Demonstrate experience in the specialist area of practice (adult mental health) and confidence to supervise qualified Psychologists and offer expert consultation to non-psychology colleagues.
• Management of team psychology waiting lists for the sector.
• Engagement in service development initiatives to improve quality within the team, sector or Trust (for example, developing a learning or therapy programme for others to deliver).
• Clinical supervision experience; interest/experience in working within a child and family setting/working with parents/carers/providing consultation to other professionals
• Participation in senior management meetings at a sector level (offering a psychological perspective to shape services/quality).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£55,877 to £62,626 a year (Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata