8B Lead Practitioner Psychologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Godalming; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High Cost Area Supplement

5% fringe included in salary

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior psychologist to lead a place-based psychology service within Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. The role combines strategic leadership with a clinical caseload to shape community care and drive service development.

Applicants must have HCPC registration and a doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, with extensive post-qualification experience and supervision qualifications.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
• Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to supervise trainees.
• HCPC registration.
• Extensive post-qualification clinical experience in a relevant setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership and governance for a specialist psychology service, ensuring safe, effective practice and compliance with legal and professional standards.
• Lead and develop the place-based psychological workforce, including supervision, appraisal, recruitment, workforce development, teaching and mentoring.
• Support students and junior staff.
• Maintain a meaningful clinical caseload.
• Help shape innovative models of care and embed evidence-based interventions.
• Ensure psychological thinking is central to service delivery.
• Drive service improvement and strategic development through partnership working, policy and care pathway development.
• Ensure equity and inclusion for people with protected characteristics.
• Deliver expert psychological practice, including specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation.
• Lead audit, research and innovation, and implement national best practice standards.

Education

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Job description

A senior psychology post in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams, within the Waverley Complex Needs Service Line at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, with several posts across different localities. It combines leadership of psychological practice with a clinical caseload, shaping community models of care and driving service development across multidisciplinary adult mental health teams. Open to Clinical or Counselling Psychologists, with each post supervised by its place-based Consultant Psychologist. Applicants need HCPC registration and a doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.

What the job involves

• Provide professional leadership and governance for a specialist psychology service, ensuring safe, effective practice and compliance with legal and professional standards
• Lead and develop the place-based psychological workforce, including supervision, appraisal, recruitment, workforce development, teaching and mentoring
• Support students and junior staff
• Maintain a meaningful clinical caseload
• Help shape innovative models of care and embed evidence-based interventions
• Ensure psychological thinking is central to service delivery
• Drive service improvement and strategic development through partnership working, policy and care pathway development
• Ensure equity and inclusion for people with protected characteristics
• Deliver expert psychological practice, including specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation
• Lead audit, research and innovation, and implement national best practice standards

What’s required

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or equivalent
• Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to supervise trainees

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration

Experience

• Extensive post-qualification clinical experience in a relevant setting
• Leading in clinical practice, service development or project work
• Supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified psychologists and others providing psychological therapies
• Implementing change following audit and service evaluation
• Developing complex formulations drawing on multiple psychological models
• Advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk

Checks & eligibility

• Right to work in the UK for the duration of the role

Nice to have

• Additional leadership or management study
• Additional academic qualification relevant to the area of work

What’s offered

• High Cost Area Supplement and 5% fringe included in the stated salary