Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

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Job summary

My job makes better lives by providing psychological services to parents within Family Safeguarding. To provide clinical expertise to the Family Safeguarding Team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations.

The post will be based within the Family Safeguarding Service of Surrey County Council (permanently seconded from SABP). You will be managed and supervised by the Lead Clinical Psychologist within the Safeguarding service and work alongside a team of social workers and other professionals with parents where there is high risk of severe parenting problems including maltreatment and neglect.

Our ground-breaking family safeguarding model will bring together all the professionals we need, under one roof, to provide intensive support to parents to address the mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse that place children at risk of significant harm. An important focus of our model is to invest in training all team members to a high standard in motivational interviewing, to engage parents in contributing to their own assessments of risk and change, and to make group interventions and strengthening relationships support part of our everyday work. Our team works in a trauma informed way, and offers trauma-focused and trauma-informed interventions to parents.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

To adhere to professional code of conduct at all times
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment of adults with mental health difficulties. To undertake the assessment utilising information from a broad range of structured psychometric and semi-structured clinical methods. To administer, score and interpret neuropsychological assessment where appropriate. To integrate all information into a psychological formulation of the client and his/her psychosocial environment, drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.
To be responsible for the systematic provision of specialist psychology services to adults with complex, severe and enduring mental health difficulties within Family Safeguarding Teams
To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking audit, research and service development activities relevant to the service area.
To supervise and support the psychological therapy provided by other members of the multidisciplinary team.

About us

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.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

07 June 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

Depending on experience Band 7 with development plan to Band 8a or Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

325-5349154-SS-A

Job locations

St Francis Centre

Family Safeguarding Team, St Francis Centre, Southway, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 8WZ

Guildford

GU2 8WZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent.

Driving Requirements

Essential

Full driving license and access to a vehicle for work-related purposes

Experience

Essential

6 months' experience of working with adults/parents with mental health difficulties (can be pre-qualification).
Working knowledge of the traditional models of psychotherapy and the evidence for their use, with detailed knowledge of two or more models.
Up-to-date knowledge of key policies and guidelines for adults with mental health difficulties
Demonstrate experience in the specialist area of practice (adult mental health) and confidence to supervise qualified Psychologists and offer expert consultation to non-psychology colleagues.
Management of team psychology waiting lists for the sector.
Engagement in service development initiatives to improve quality within the team, sector or Trust (for example, developing a learning or therapy programme for others to deliver).

Desirable

Clinical supervision experience; interest/experience in working within a child and family setting/working with parents/carers/providing consultation to other professionals
Participation in senior management meetings at a sector level (offering a psychological perspective to shape services/quality).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent.

Driving Requirements

Essential

Full driving license and access to a vehicle for work-related purposes

Experience

Essential

6 months' experience of working with adults/parents with mental health difficulties (can be pre-qualification).
Working knowledge of the traditional models of psychotherapy and the evidence for their use, with detailed knowledge of two or more models.
Up-to-date knowledge of key policies and guidelines for adults with mental health difficulties
Demonstrate experience in the specialist area of practice (adult mental health) and confidence to supervise qualified Psychologists and offer expert consultation to non-psychology colleagues.
Management of team psychology waiting lists for the sector.
Engagement in service development initiatives to improve quality within the team, sector or Trust (for example, developing a learning or therapy programme for others to deliver).

Desirable

Clinical supervision experience; interest/experience in working within a child and family setting/working with parents/carers/providing consultation to other professionals
Participation in senior management meetings at a sector level (offering a psychological perspective to shape services/quality).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).