The Children and Young People’s (CYPS) Directorate in Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Mindworks East Community Hub. You will be based at Leatherhead, with the expectation of travelling to Redhill or other Surrey locations.
This post will be suitable for a highly motivated psychologist interested in ensuring excellent psychological care is accessible for children and young people with complex mental health needs from diverse backgrounds. This is a permanent full time (37.5 hours) post. Applications are invited from Clinical or Counselling Psychologists registered with the HCPC and from Clinical Psychologists currently in training who expect to become registered in 2026.
The post-holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering specialist interventions for children and young people experiencing complex, chronic and/or severe mental health difficulties. The post-holder will provide evidence-based interventions and will be highly skilled in the use of CBT and at least one other psychological therapy. The post-holder will contribute to service-development through service evaluation and audit, taking into consideration service-user participation.
- Carry out comprehensive psychological assessments and formulation, plan, implement and evaluate delivery of psychology interventions to support children and young people with complex mental health needs.
- Actively involve people in developing and agreeing their own care plan, acting as an advocate and ensuring proper regard for their dignity, choice, self‑esteem, racial, cultural, sexual and religious needs and preferences.
- Work creatively to adapt verbal and written communication to meet the needs of people who use our services.
- Undertake comprehensive risk assessments and develop effective risk management plans.
- Positively contribute to divisional and team developments in relation to all aspects of psychology practice.
All our staff have regular supervision and access to a wide variety of CPD opportunities. We have well established links with the Surrey Clinical Psychology doctorate.
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 also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
For further details or informal visits contact: Name – Tinisha Kennedy, Job title – Principal Clinical Psychologist, Email – Tinisha.kennedy@sabp.nhs.uk
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