Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Perinatal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
The closing date is 27 July 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our service in our South West Perinatal locality team.
This full time role involves providing individual and systemic support to women and their families within the community. The focus will be on delivering formulation based and NICE recommended psychological interventions to women with moderate to severe mental health difficulties who are pregnant or within 12 months of the postnatal period. We offer a range of therapeutic modalities including CBT, EMDR, Systemic Couples therapy, IPT, CFT, and ACT, and this role would be suitable for anyone interested in transgenerational patterns of trauma, attachment and parent and infant mental health.
You will contribute to the supervision, consultation and training of the MDT who consist of highly skilled, and psychologically minded professionals including Psychiatrists, perinatal mental health nurses, social worker, occupational therapist, peer support workers and nursery nurses.
All candidates should be registered with the HCPC, and eligible for BPS chartered Status. The ability to work across South West Surrey is essential and a car is required.
Please do get in touch to discuss the role and find out more.
Main duties of the job
* To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the psychological needs of people using our services.
* To supervise and teach unqualified staff including students.
* Promoting a psychological perspective both within teams and sharing with other colleagues.
* To support team managers/ Clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services.
You will receive regular management and clinical supervision, and reflective practice, and will have support and supervision from the senior psychologist within the team. You will be one of a team of Psychologists who work in the three teams, we regularly meet for reflective practice and specialist supervision and have excellent training opportunities including opportunities to access specialist training such as EMDR, to develop an area of specialist interest and one's own style of working.
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!
Job responsibilities
The job description is attached. Please see attached job description for further information for main roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
* 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
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
* HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist
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.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
£50,008 to £56,908 a yearincludes 5% Fringe HCAS
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