Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Senior Clinician

NHS; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS seeks a Senior Clinician to join their mental health team, located in Chertsey. The successful candidate will lead the supervision of staff, deliver direct interventions, and collaborate with educational institutions. This role offers significant opportunities for growth and aims to enhance mental health services for children and young people within schools.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification therapeutic experience with children and young people.
• Experience in collaborative multi-agency working.
• Experience supervising junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Supervise development of EMHPs and maintain high-quality clinical practice.
• Hold a caseload, delivering direct interventions to children and families.
• Lead consultations and support schools with mental health approaches.

Skills

Therapeutic experience

Clinical supervision

Multi-agency collaboration

CBT informed practice

Education

Professional degree related to mental health

Supervision Qualification

Job description

Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Senior Clinician

The closing date is 30 June 2025

MHST Senior Clinician/Supervisor - Band 7 - Full Time

Elmbridge- base is Unither House, Chertsey or 18 Mole Business Park, Leatherhead.

Colleges - base is Unither House in Chertsey, 18 Mole Business Park, Leatherhead or Gatton Place, Redhill.

We invite you to consider being involved in this exciting opportunity to help to deliver the governments vision and commitment to develop integrated mental health teams in schools.

Building on existing 'whole school approaches' to mental health and wellbeing, Surrey is developing new MHSTs to work with selected primary and secondary schools to increase access to mental health interventions for children and young people up to the age of 18 years.

Our MHSTs have 3 core functions; supporting families and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties by delivering evidence-based interventions in schools; providing timely advice and consultation to schools, and supporting schools to deliver whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. Each MHST is co-located in schools, operating from the four main geographical hubs, with services delivered across the cluster of schools for each area.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Clinician you will be supervising the development of EMHPs in your team, building a culture of high-quality clinical practice. You will grow and nurture trainees and newly qualified EMHPs, utilising your experience and skills to ensure they develop into well rounded clinicians. To facilitate this, Senior Clinicianswill be required to attend a fully funded 1 year Supervision training course (Supervision of Therapeutic Practice) at either Sussex or Southampton University.

You will take the lead in building relationships with senior leaders in schools, providing regular case consultation, support and advice, and be a 'link' to the wider children's mental health services. Together with the Clinical Lead and educational psychologists, you will develop programmes of work to support schools with their whole school approach goals, enabling more sustainable, holistic change. Finally, you will hold a caseload, delivering direct interventions to CYP and families.

We are looking to build a multi-disciplinary team whose strength comes from the variety of skills and experience. Thus, we welcome applications from candidates from range of professional backgrounds.

We are looking for inspiring, motivated, forward-thinking clinicians who are flexible and able to work effectively with partners in education, multiagency partners, children, young people and their families.

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.

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.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

We are a fast growing service, with multiple teams across Surrey, enabling us to draw on a wider variety of skills and clinical experience. We have many opportunities for staff development and training, and welcome staff who are seeking an opportunity to be part of a growing, supportive, exciting and innovative service.

Please note: You will be required to travel between various sites within Surrey for this role so having a driving licence and access to a car is desirable. Although we work in schools, the team operates all year around.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable significant post qualification experience working therapeutically, clinically, or consultatively within a CYP Educational or Mental Health setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families
• Experience of leading on / driving multi-agency collaborative working
• Experience of confidently delivering consultations to other professionals
• Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes to ensure service quality
• Experience of leading clinical practice/ service development / project work
• Experience of Supervising or mentoring junior members of staff
• Experience conducting complex formulation and managing clinical complexity
• Experience of delivering CBT informed practice
• Experience of delivering mental health interventions in education settings
• Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision at low intensity level
• Experience in whole school approaches to mental health in education settings
• Experience of working with and adapting practice to meet the needs of young people who have special educational needs, learning disabilities, language and social communication difficulties, neurodiversity and behaviours of concern

Qualifications

• Professional degree qualification relevant to the specialist field (Including but not limited to Practitioner Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Nurse, Social Worker, OT, Art Therapist etc.)
• Membership/registration of relevant professional body
• Relevant addional post graduate training or qualification (e.g. CBT, systemic therapy, EMDR, leadership)
• Supervision Qualification

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

£48,270 to £54,931 a yearIncl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.