8B Lead Practitioner Psychologist

Sabp; Aldershot; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is transforming adult community mental health care through integrated Neighbourhood Teams. We seek experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologists to provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological practice while maintaining a meaningful clinical caseload.

Join a multidisciplinary team to embed evidence-based interventions, shape innovative care models, and ensure psychological thinking informs service delivery across

Qualifications

• Provide professional leadership and governance for a highly specialist psychology service.
• Ensure safe, effective practice and high-quality patient care.
• Lead and develop the place-based psychological workforce, including supervision, appraisal, recruitment, workforce development, teaching, mentoring.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

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.

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., Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is transforming adult community mental health care through integrated Neighbourhood Teams, delivering person-centred, trauma-informed support in partnership with primary care, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations.

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.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.