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Clinical or Counselling Psychologist preceptorship Band 7/8a

£48.2 - £56.8 per hourEstimated
Full-time
Job summary
Shape the Future of Community Mental Health. Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust is undergoing an exciting transformation of community mental health services to develop integrated neighbourhood mental health teams. We are committed to providing robust clinical pathways and ensuring that people using our services have timely access to high quality, evidence-based psychological interventions. To support delivery of our clinical pathways we are investing in a range of psychological roles. We are recruiting to 9 Psychologist posts (Band 7/8a) to join our Adult Neighbourhood Community Mental Health Services across Surrey.

Available Locations
  • North-East Hants - 2 post
  • South-West Surrey - 3 posts
  • North-West Surrey - 3 posts
  • Surrey Downs - 2 posts
  • East Surrey - 3 posts
About the Role
These roles will sit within - and in some cases work across - our new community neighbourhood teams, supporting the delivery of integrated, person-centred care.

Why Join Us?
  • Be part of a major transformation programme shaping the future of community mental health
  • Work within innovative, multidisciplinary neighbourhood teams
  • Access professional development opportunities and supervision
  • Contribute to improving access and outcomes for local communities
Main duties of the job
As a Trust we pride our-selves on our innovative and collaborative approach to providing the highest quality, person-centred care: As part of our transition to a neighbourhood model of care, we are developing integrated clinical pathways across primary, secondary care and crisis and emergency service. Our pathways embody strong partnership working with a wide range of statutory and VCSE providers and people with lived experience. Each of the advertised roles is key to ensuring therapies pathways are high quality, effective and accessible across the adult age range, and that psychosocial interventions are embedded in wider service delivery. Unless 8a competencies are met at the time of application, the successful candidate will commence in post at band 7 and then work towards individualised competencies as discussed with the Sector Manager and Psychology Lead.

About us
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 Trust 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.

Job responsibilities
For a full breakdown of the Job Role and Responsibilities please find the Job Profile attached to this job listing.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent (including pending 2026 qualification).
Experience
Essential
  • Experience of working with people from across the life span with a range of mental health issues and cognitive profiles.
  • Experience across a range of psychological models including systemic, behavioural and individual therapeutic and any model specified in the advert
Desirable
  • Training in supervision and experience of supervising assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, or achieved within the first six months of start post (Band 8a)
  • Demonstrable post registration/clinical experience and competency relevant to this care group (Band 8a)
  • Experience of contributing to clinical practice/service development/project work (Band 8a)
  • Demonstrable interest/skill in a relevant specialist area (Band 8a)
Registration
Essential
  • HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist or current trainee with eligibility in 2026
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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