Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lead/Principal Psychologist - Clinical/Counselling

The closing date is 09 December 2025

Job summary

St Luke's Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey County Hospital are recruiting to a 3 day a week fixed term post (one year duration). The post requires skills in staff consultation, training and MDT work and previous experience of working in cancer services.

The purpose of this post is to work closely with a range of leads in the cancer service and the thriving wellbeing centre and counselling service (The Fountain Centre) to develop a level 4 psychology service that both complements the existing wellbeing offer within the cancer centre.

You will work with clinicians, and clinical and strategy leads to shape the future of level 4 psychology in cancer care locally.

You will be part of a network of around 30 psychologists specializing in physical health who are employed by Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust and work into a range of local physical and mental health services and specialisms. Your supervision and management will be provided through this network.

Main duties of the job

Over the course of the year you will work with clinical leads to:

- Establish and evaluate an MDT focusing on psychological care.

- Provision of level 2 training.

- Psychological consultations to clinicians and teams

- Clinical supervision.

- Level 4 clinical consultations with patients

- Joint working with specialist clinicians

- Work with clinical and data specialists to generate data on the impact of the level 4 service.

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.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

25 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,653 to £77,094 a year Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

325-7520405-SS

Job locations

Royal Surrey County Hospital

Egerton Road

Guildford

GU27XX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description document attached for more information on the requirements for this job.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description document attached for more information on the requirements for this job.

Person Specification

Qualifications required

Essential

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees

Desirable

Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work
Additional leadership/management study

Experience

Essential

Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting
Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work.
Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies
Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation
Demonstrableexperienceofdevelopingcomplexformulationsdrawingonmultiple psychological models
Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk

Person Specification

Qualifications required

Essential

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees

Desirable

Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work
Additional leadership/management study

Experience

Essential

Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting
Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work.
Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies
Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation
Demonstrableexperienceofdevelopingcomplexformulationsdrawingonmultiple psychological models
Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk

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.