# Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a)

**Company**: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Leatherhead
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time, part-time
**Salary**: £59,798 to £67,020 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Are you passionate about transforming lives and delivering specialist psychological interventions to people with complex emotional needs?

Our specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) team has been established for over 10 years. Recognising the significant benefits to people who access DBT, we are significantly increasing the team's resources, so that it can have a greater impact across the Surrey and North-East Hampshire area.

Due to expansion and service growth, we are expanding our team and are looking for 1 full-time and one part-time Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join us.

**Why Join Us?**

- Be part of a specialist service with over 10 years of DBT expertise.

- Help shape and develop an expanding service with ambitious plans for the future.

- Work alongside skilled, experienced and supportive multidisciplinary colleagues.

- Access regular supervision, consultation and excellent professional development opportunities.

- Make a genuine difference to the lives and opportunities of people with complex emotional needs.

**Main duties of the job**

- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services.

- To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.

- Promoting a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues.

- Work collaboratively with team managers/Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services.

- The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within the service.

- To lead on complex and challenging cases and develop expertise within area of specialism.

- Participating in the recruitment and selection of staff.

**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.

**Benefits**

- Free parking

- Excellent health and wellbeing support

- Wide range of staff networks

- Flexible working

**Requirements**

- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent.

- Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees.

- 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, competencies and an interest in working with people with complex emotional needs.

## Skills

### Required
- Clinical Psychology
- Counselling Psychology
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- DBT
- Supervision
- Leadership
- Risk Formulation
- Management
- Family Interventions
- Trauma Interventions

### Nice to have
- Prior training in DBT

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