Overview
Contract Type: Part time – 22.5 hours per week
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and profile document for more information on the requirements for this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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.
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
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.
