Central Screening Team Mental Health Clinician in Frimley

Main area: RMN/Social worker or Occupational therapist

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 325-8212933-CYPSE

Employer: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Site: Leatherhead, Chertsey or Frimley

Salary: £51,657 - £58,785 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 22/09/2026 23:59

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:

Band 7 Central Screening Clinician (x4) Mindworks Surrey | Locations across Frimley, Leatherhead & Chertsey

Are you an experienced and passionate mental health professional looking to make a real difference for children and young people? Join our Surrey-wide Central Screening Team and play a pivotal role in ensuring children, young people and families receive the right support, at the right time, through the right service.

We are seeking four Band 7 Central Screening Clinicians to join the innovative and dynamic Mindworks Surrey team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a county-wide service, helping to shape care pathways and improve outcomes for children and young people across Surrey.

We're looking for motivated clinicians who are:

• Experienced in working with children and young people within mental health, health, social care or related services.
• Skilled in assessment, risk management and clinical decision-making.
• Confident communicating with families, professionals and partner agencies.
• Passionate about improving access to support and delivering excellent outcomes.
• Adaptable, resilient and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to offer flexibility.

Main duties of the job:

Currently, this is not an assessment role. You will use advanced clinical reasoning, risk assessment and safeguarding knowledge to make autonomous decisions regarding referral prioritisation and allocation. You will also support Hub Screening Clinicians with routine referrals when required, provide clinical guidance to colleagues, work closely with the Administration Team and the routine partner team to maintain safe patient flow, and contribute to the ongoing development of the county-wide Central Screening Team.

The Central Screening Team provides the Surrey-wide function for urgent and specialist referrals into Surrey Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (Mindworks). Routine referrals are managed by local Hub Screening Teams, which provide local advice, signposting and screening.

The Band 7 Central Screening Clinician is responsible for providing expert clinical screening, telephone triage and clinical decision-making for urgent and specialist referrals across Surrey.

Working within the THRIVE Needs-Led Approach (i-THRIVE Framework), the post holder will gather information from children, young people, families and professionals to determine the level of need, risk and urgency, ensuring referrals are allocated safely and appropriately.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 7 clinician who is resilient, adaptable and committed to delivering high quality, child-centered care within a fast paced and evolving service.

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. Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Provide expert telephone screening and triage for urgent and specialist referrals.
• Assess clinical need, risk, safeguarding concerns and urgency using advanced clinical judgement.
• Make autonomous decisions regarding referral prioritisation and allocation.
• Allocate referrals to the most appropriate Surrey pathway, including:
• Urgent Care
• Community Eating Disorder Service (CEDS)
• Mindworks Hubs (Community Mental Health Teams)
• School-Based Needs Service (SBN)
• Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIIP)
• Children with Disabilities Team (CLD)
• Transfer of Care and Adult Mental Health Liaison
• Voluntary Sector Alliance Services
• Demonstrate knowledge of the Neurodevelopmental pathway, including School Consultation and medication referral processes.
• Develop safety plans and provide advice where appropriate, escalating urgent referrals in line with local guidance.
• Support Hub Screening Clinicians with routine referrals when urgent demand allows.
• Provide clinical advice and consultation to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Promote consistent decision-making through supervision, reflective practice and adherence to local guidance and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Support the induction, supervision and development of junior staff and students.
• Act as a clinical role model, promoting evidence-based practice and Trust values.

Communication:

• Communicate effectively with children, young people, families and professionals.
• Provide timely clinical advice to referrers, GPs, schools, social care, acute hospitals and partner organisations.
• Build effective relationships across the Mindworks Alliance and represent the Access and Advice Team at meetings where appropriate.
• Present complex cases during team meetings, supervision and formulation discussions.

Patient Flow and Administration:

• Support safe and timely patient flow by ensuring referrals are screened and allocated promptly.
• Work closely with the Administration Team to manage referrals, telephone enquiries, and email inbox.
• Provide timely clinical decisions to support referral processing and allocation.
• Ensure all clinical decisions are accurately documented on the electronic patient record.
• Escalate operational or capacity concerns to the Service Manager.
• Support service performance by maintaining accurate records and contributing to KPI reporting.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Registered Mental Health Professional (RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or equivalent)
• Experience: Extensive experience as a band 6 Nurse / Occupational Therapist or Social worker
• Experience of supervising or mentoring others
• Experience of telephone or remote clinical triage, assessment and clinical decision-making within a mental health setting
• Experience of working effectively within multi-agency systems, including schools, social care, GPs, acute services and voluntary sector organisations.

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.

Please note we have the right to close this advert early, once we reach a suitable number of applications.