8B Lead Practitioner Psychologist - Part time
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation TrustEpsom, South East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust based in Epsom. The advertised salary is £68,852 to £79,638. Applications close on 26 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Lead Practitioner Psychologist (Band 8b)Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (Complex Needs Service Line) in Epsom. This is an exciting time to join Surr...
As the senior psychological professional within your Neighbourhood Team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for psychological practice while maintaining a meaningful clinical caseload. Working alongside experienced multidisciplinary colleagues, you will help shape innovative models of care, embed evidence-based interventions and ensure that psychological thinking is at the heart of service delivery.
Please see JD for full key responsibilities, some of them included the following:
Provide professional leadership and governance for a highly specialist psychology service, ensuring safe, effective practice, compliance with legal and professional standards, and high-quality patient care.
Lead and develop the place-based psychological workforce, including supervision, appraisal, recruitment, workforce development, teaching, mentoring, and supporting students and junior staff.
Drive service improvement and strategic development through contributing to partnership working, policy and care pathway development and ensuring equity and inclusion for people with protected characteristics.
Deliver and promote expert psychological practice, including specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation, while leading audit, research, innovation and the implementation of national best practice standards.
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is transforming adult community mental health care through integrated Neighbourhood Teams, delivering person-centred, trauma-informed support in partnership with primary care, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations.
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.
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.
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.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Essential: - HCPC Registration; - Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees; - Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
Desirable: - Additional leadership/management study; - Additional academic qualification relevant to area of work
Essential: - Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting; - Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work.; - Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies; - Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation; - Demonstrable experience of developing complex formulations drawing on multiple psychological models; - Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk
How this role compares
We hold 1,107 NHS vacancies in South East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays more than about 89% of them.
There are 12,320 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,870 of them in South East.
You have 4 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 48 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has 47 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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