8B Lead Practitioner Psychologist -Full time, 4 x part time

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Godalming; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting Lead Practitioner Psychologists in the Complex Needs Service Line within Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. These senior roles will provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological practice, supporting multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care.

You will shape innovative models of care,embed psychological thinking in service delivery and supervise a regional psychological workforce across

Qualifications

• Experience as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
• Proven ability to lead service development and drive psychological practice.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological practice within Neighbourhood Teams.
• Lead the place-based psychological workforce: supervision, appraisal, recruitment, development, teaching and mentoring.
• Drive service development, partnership working, policy and care pathway development with emphasis on equity and inclusion.
• Deliver expert psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation; lead audit, research and implementation of best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Workforce development

Teaching & mentoring

Education

Clinical Psychologist

Counselling Psychologist

Job description

Lead Practitioner Psychologist (Band 8b)

Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (Complex Needs Service Line)

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.

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.

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.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.