Job overview

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the job description and job overview:
• To plan and deliver a highly specialist psychology service and to oversee its clinical governance.
• To be responsible for the professional leadership and continued development of a team and/or service area.
• To be responsible for the development and implementation of appropriate policies, protocols and care pathways.
• To ensure that the needs of people with protected characteristics are addressed within local services and future developments.
• To demonstrate highly specialist expertise and specialist psychological skills such as specialist formulation and consultation to support people with complex needs
• To act as supervisor/teacher in teaching, facilitating and supporting members of the multidisciplinary clinical team, as well as pre-registration students and junior personnel and to participate in the audit of educational placements. To participate in new staff induction.
• To research national best practice and enable services to benchmark practice against nationally recognised standards - in partnership with people who use services and carers.
• To lead in developing and conducting clinical audit and research, maintaining current knowledge of research findings and development within the relevant area of practice.

Working for our organisation

We prioritise career development and encourage participation in leadership and quality improvement programmes across the system. We are connected into the wider SABP Clinical Health Psychology network, which consists of a community health psychology service and specialist applied psychology in neighbouring acute hospitals. We are affiliated with the University of Surrey PsychD course, offering placements for trainees across the programme, and accessing CPD such as supervisor training. 

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 provide support to a population of 1.3 million across 140 services.

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.

We look forward to receiving your application!