Band 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Chertsey

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Unither House Town Chertsey Salary £59,798 - £67,020 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata. Salary period Yearly Closing 06/10/2026 08:00

Band 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

Full Time – Band 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Spelthorne Community Mental Health Recovery Service (new Neighbourhood Team)

Bases: Staines and Chertsey

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. We are looking for a senior clinical or counselling psychologist to join our Adult Neighbourhood Community Mental Health Services across Surrey.

About the Role

This role will primarily sit within the Complex Needs, SMI and Recovery pathway, offering psychological assessment and interventions to adults experiencing complex, severe, and enduring mental health problems. The post holder will also contribute across the Integrated Neighbourhood Team, supporting collaborative and flexible working where required. The successful applicant will work closely with partners across the Integrated Neighbourhood Team, including voluntary and community organisations, local councils, and NHS providers, helping to deliver coordinated, person-centred care. The role will support the aims of the Community Mental Health Framework and the Fuller Stocktake report, focusing on prevention, reducing inequalities, and improving access to personalised support.

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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 of post)

Experience

• 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
• Experience of contributing to clinical practice/service development/project work
• Demonstrable interest/skill in a relevant specialist area
• Subject to reasonable adjustments in respect of any disability, candidates must possess a valid driving licence and be able to drive and have the unrestricted use of a car or motorcycle for work at all times including community based work.

Registration

• HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.