Senior Practitioner Psychologist — Lead in Community Care

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

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