# Senior Practitioner Psychologist & Group Lead

**Company**: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Redhill
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £59,798 to £67,020 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide clinical, strategic, and operational leadership for early intervention and group-based provision across the School Based Needs service. The post holder will ensure children, young people, families, and schools have access to timely, evidence-based interventions that promote resilience and prevent escalation of need.

A key element of this role is to lead on the development, coordination and delivery of early intervention group programmes, embedding best practice across teams and ensuring consistent, high-quality provision. The post holder will use clinical expertise, data, and stakeholder insight to design and deliver high-quality group pathways, supporting improved outcomes, reducing inequalities, and strengthening school-based systems of support.

The School Based Needs Service provide preventative and early intervention low-intensity support, serving schools across Surrey. This post will be based at Gatton Place in Redhill.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide clinical leadership for early intervention and group-based provision across the SBN service ensuring consistency and quality group provision of evidence-based approaches

- Oversee the design, delivery, and evaluation of group programmes (e.g., anxiety, behaviour, emotional regulation, parenting)

- Hold a small specialist clinical caseload, including complex or systemic interventions

- Ensure safe, effective, and evidence-based practice, including safeguarding and risk management

- Provide clinical supervision and consultation to staff delivering interventions

- Work collaboratively with schools and partners to ensure interventions are accessible and contextually relevant

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £59,798 to £67,020 a year Incl 5% HCAS Per Annum, pro rata

- Permanent, full-time position

- Excellent health and wellbeing support

- Free parking

- Flexible working

**Requirements**

- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent

- Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees (or completion within 6 months of commencement in post)

- 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

- Demonstrable post registration/clinical experience and competency relevant to this care group

## Skills

### Required
- Clinical Psychology
- Counselling Psychology
- Leadership
- Group-based provision
- Evidence-based practice

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