Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £51,657 – £58,785 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Are you passionate about transforming lives and delivering specialist psychological interventions to people with complex emotional needs?
Our specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service has been establish for over 10 years. Recognising the significant benefits to people who access DBT, we are significantly increasing the team’s resources, so that it can have a greater impact across the Surrey and North-East Hampshire area.
Due to expansion and service growth, we are expanding our team and are looking for 3 x Band 7 Psychologists or DBT Therapist to cover
West Surrey
East Surrey
Trust wide
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a specialist service with over 10 years of DBT expertise.
- Help shape and develop an expanding service with ambitious plans for the future.
- Work alongside skilled, experienced and supportive multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Access regular supervision, consultation and excellent professional development opportunities.
- Make a genuine difference to the lives and opportunities of people with complex emotional needs.
Come and Grow With Us
This is an exciting time to join a thriving service that values innovation, clinical excellence and teamwork. If you’re looking for a role where you can use your expertise to make a real and lasting impact, while being part of a supportive and ambitious team, we’d love to hear from you.
Join us and help shape the future of DBT provision across Surrey and North East Hampshire.
Main duties of the job
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services.
- To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students
- Promote a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues
- Work collaboratively with team managers/ Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services
- Supporting specific service development projects
- The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within the 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.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description document for more information on the requirements and main responsibilities for this job.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or DBT Therapist – PG Dip in DBT and core professional training (e.g. Nursing, Social work, OT), registered with appropriate professional registration body
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people from across the life span with a range of mental health issues and cognitive profiles.
- Experience across a range of psychological models including systemic, behavioural and individual therapeutic
- Candidates should demonstrate experience of working with individuals with complex emotional needs
- Experience of supervising assistant and trainee clinical psychologists (Psychologists)
- Demonstrable post registration/clinical experience and competency relevant to this care group.
- Ability to manage difficult situations with service users that have complex presentations and/or behaviours that challenge, and to manage a demanding and complex caseload
- Demonstrable ability to remain calm and compassionate when faced with highly distressing situations.
- Knowledge and Experience of delivering DBT (DBT Therapist)
- It is essential to have a driving license and access to a vehicle for all community-based post where travel across sites and/or client visits are a significant part of the role
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Psychologist – Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology OR DBT Therapist – PG Dip in DBT and core professional training (e.g. Nursing, Social work, OT), registered with appropriate professional registration body
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.
Gender Pay Gap Action
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
Applicant requirements
Documents to download
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
