Clinical Psychologist – Childrens Diabetes

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Full time
Location: Stevenage
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Job offered by: NHS
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Clinical Psychologist - Childrens Diabetes

We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist - Children and Young Peoples (CYP) Diabetes who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. Your role will be to provide a qualified clinical psychology service to children, adolescents and their families with complex psychological difficulties associated with a diagnosis of diabetes. You will be working within the context of a multi-disciplinary team in the Children's and Young People's Diabetes Service within the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Children's Services enhancing its capacity to assess and meet the psychological needs of the client group. You will offer psychological assessment and treatment for children, adolescents and their families with a diagnosis of diabetes and medically related emotional problems currently under the care of the Children and Young People's Diabetes Service. This is a developmental post for applicants at band 7, and growing to band 8A when competencies are met. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Main duties of the job

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, physiological / medical, social and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including Training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist. Evidence of continuous professional development. Post qualification training in one or more specialised areas of practice Certificates. Post qualification training in one or more specialised areas of practice. Previous Experience

Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Experience of using Cognitive behavioural therapy. Experience of working with children and adolescents. A good working knowledge of the psychological needs of children / young people and families with behavioural, relationship and emotional difficulties. An ability to establish rapport with a wide variety of clients and professionals, both within the service and outside agencies. Post qualifying experience of working with children and adolescents and in particular those with a long term condition. Group work and teaching experience. Knowledge and skills

Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies as applied in a clinical health psychology setting. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to cope with a fast paced work environment, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. Ability to assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Knowledge and awareness of safeguarding issues. Skills in self-management, including time-management. Planning and organising skills for caseload management. Knowledge of facilitating reflective practice groups and/or debriefs. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies relevant to working with families in an acute healthcare environment. Excellent presentation skills. A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a desire to continue to develop expertise in the area. Other requirements

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Role model our Trust values every day. Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff. 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. £46,148 to £60,504 a year (pro rata)

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