Clinical Psychologist - Childrens Diabetes

Clinical Psychologist - Childrens Diabetes NHS AfC: Band 7 Main area: Childrens Diabetes
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 19 hours per week
Job ref: 680-B

Site: Lister Hospital
Town: Stevenage
Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/05/:59
Interview date: 16/05/2025

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities.

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.

Job overview 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. We are happy to receive applications from 3rd year clinical psychology trainees that are due to qualify this year.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Working for our organisation 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.

Detailed job description and main 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.

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.

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include:
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect:
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve:
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community:
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

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