Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Guildford is seeking a passionate and highly motivated psychologist/CBT therapist to ensure excellent psychological care for children with complex needs. This part-time role (18.75 hours) involves delivering therapeutic interventions, supervising junior colleagues, and collaborating with the MDT. The provider values staff development and offers flexible working patterns alongside support for mental health and wellbeing.

Benefits

Free parking

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering direct therapeutic interventions for children and young people.
• Ability to supervise and teach unqualified staff, including students.
• Experience promoting a psychological perspective in a team setting.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate psychological needs.
• Supervise and teach unqualified staff including students.
• Promote a psychological perspective within the team.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Supervision skills

Team collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

This post will be suitable for a passionate and highly motivated psychologist / CBT therapist interested in ensuring excellent psychological care is accessible for children and young people with complex mental health needs from diverse backgrounds, through delivering direct therapeutic interventions, providing supervision to junior colleagues, and providing consultations to the MDT and other services. This is a part-time (18.75 hours) secondment cover post based in Guildford.

Psychology in SABP has a history of being highly valued and clinicians are well supported to develop their generic and specialist skills in a range of therapeutic models. We encourage staff to be involved in service development, audit and research. We provide regular supervision and access to CPD opportunities.

Responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services
• To supervise and teach unqualified staff, including students
• To promote a psychological perspective within the team and with other agencies
• To support team managers and clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trusts to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.