Job summary

We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling psychologist to Join our innovative EIIP service.

This would be an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified psychologist or current band 7 looking to move into Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIIP). The role offers excellent professional development; including the opportunity to supervise junior colleagues, provide teaching and consultation to MDT colleagues and develop skills in providing psychological opinion and knowledge within a friendly MDT. This is alongside the opportunity to provide individual and group psychological interventions including CBT for psychosis and an ACT for psychosis group.

The post is based in our East Surrey Team based at Horizon House in Epsom with a satellite base in Redhill. The psychologist would be seeing clients largely from the Reigate, Redhill area.

You will be involved in assessment of clients and will provide psychological therapy to clients. You will assist the Lead Psychologist in coordinating referrals to Psychology. You will also have the opportunity to provide family interventions and support the team in the provision of this treatment.

You will be supervised by a Senior Psychologist within EIIP and you will join part of the therapies team which includes a psychologists and a CBT Therapist.

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!