Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

The Children and Young People's (CYPS) Directorate in Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the well-established multi-disciplinary Children and Young Peoples Learning Disability Team. You will be joining at a very exciting time, as our services transform to adopt the Thrive Framework in close collaboration with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership. The Post is based at Unither House in Chertsey, with the expectation that the postholder will travel to Leatherhead or other bases according to the needs of children and young people., The post-holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering high-quality, specialist interventions for children and young people experiencing complex, chronic and/or severe mental health difficulties. The post-holder will be expected to provide highly-specialist psychological assessments, including using psychometric tools. They will provide evidence-based psychological interventions and will be highly skilled in the adaptation of psychological therapies to meet the needs of the young people with a Learning Disability. They will provide high-quality. clinical supervision to psychology professionals. They will provide expert consultation to the multi-disciplinary team and other services.

This post will be suitable for a passionate and highly motivated psychologist interested in ensuring excellent psychological care is accessible for children and young people with Learning Disability needs from diverse backgrounds, through delivering direct therapeutic interventions, providing supervision to psychology staff, and providing consultations to the MDT and other services. This is a permanent part time (22.5 hours) post. Applications are invited from qualified Clinical, or Counselling Psychologists registered with the HCPC. Being BABCP accredited and/or trained in EMDR will be an advantage.

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.