Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

B7 Adult Psychotherapist - part time 2.5 days

The closing date is 26 January 2026

Job summary

We are looking for applicants who are interested in taking up Band 7 adult psychotherapy post in our friendly and welcoming psychotherapy services in Surrey. The vacancy is in our Psychotherapy Service based at Leatherhead, Surrey.

You will be expected to have experience working with people who have severe and enduring mental health presentations and in offering assessment as well as individual and group psychotherapy. Experience in delivering MBT is desirable but for those candidates with no training in this modality training is available as part of career development.

Alongside MBT we offer excellent opportunities for you to develop your skills clinically and offer opportunities to train in CAT.

Please contact Sara Daniels on 01372 216444 who can arrange a discussion/meeting with Dr Sean Fernandez about the position.

We positively welcome visits to the service and encourage you to meet with the team.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 18th February 2026 at the SABP Headoffice, 18 Mole Business Park, Leatherhead.

Main duties of the job

To undertake psychotherapeutic consultations and provide individual psychodynamic psychotherapy.

To liaise with professionals, carers and relatives as required about referrals of patients to the service.

Maintaining up to date risk assessments on patients that are directly involved in your care.

To involve patients in their personal care plans taking their individual needs and preferences into account.

To conduct both group analytic and mentalization based treatments following appropriate training and with ongoing supervision.

To help advise other professionals and trainees engaged in mental health work about the role and suitability of Psychoanalytically informed interventions.

Please check the job description for more information.

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.

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.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

09 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£50,008 to £56,908 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

325-7648590-COMM

Job locations

18 Mole Business Park

Randalls Road

Leatherhead

KT22 7AD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and profile document for more information on the requirements for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and profile document for more information on the requirements for this role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

In depth understanding and training in the delivery of individual psychoanalytic therapy is mandatory.
In depth knowledge and experience of conducting psychotherapy consultations for individual therapy.

Qualifications

Essential

UKCP accreditation with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College or BPC accreditation in psychoanalytic psychotherapy or other substantive recognised psychoanalytic psychotherapy training can be considered.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

In depth understanding and training in the delivery of individual psychoanalytic therapy is mandatory.
In depth knowledge and experience of conducting psychotherapy consultations for individual therapy.

Qualifications

Essential

UKCP accreditation with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College or BPC accreditation in psychoanalytic psychotherapy or other substantive recognised psychoanalytic psychotherapy training can be considered.

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.