Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Clinical Duties:
1. Provide specialist clinical psychology assessments and short-term interventions.
2. Lead the psychological approach to care within the MDT for children with diabetes.
3. Undertake risk assessments and management, offering advice on psychological aspects.
4. Communicate effectively with health and social care staff.
Communication and Relationship Building:
1. Receive managerial supervision from the Professional Lead for Psychology.
2. Establish communication networks within the East of England CYPD Diabetes regional network psychology group.
3. Communicate assessment, formulation, and treatment plans to CAMHS.
Planning and Organisation:
1. Maintain professional standards through CPD and training programs.
2. Participate in MDT meetings, service evaluation, and policy development.
3. Maintain high standards of clinical record keeping and governance.
Research and Development:
1. Conduct clinical audits, service development, and research.
2. Supervise Trainee Clinical Psychologists and utilise evidence-based literature to support practice.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by HCPC, including evidence of continuous professional development.
* Post-qualification training in one or more specialised areas of practice.
Desirable Criteria:
* Formal training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
Knowledge
Essential Criteria:
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatients, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Post-qualification experience in an area relevant to the client group.
* Experience of using cognitive behavioural therapy / Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and systemic therapy with children and adolescents, including group work.
* Knowledge and understanding of the emotional effects and implications of long-term illnesses on children, adolescents and their families.
* Knowledge and understanding of Diabetes in childhood.
* Knowledge of the impact of mental health on physical health conditions.
Desirable Criteria:
* Post qualification experience of working with children and adolescents with a long-term condition.
* Working knowledge of paediatric medicine and the management of children and young people with diabetes.
Experience
Essential Criteria:
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working/ joint work and inter-agency collaboration.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole course of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
Desirable Criteria:
* Experience of managing children and young people with mental health issues in the acute trust setting.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire.
As an employer of nearly 6,000 people, the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.
Applicant Requirements:
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application Numbers:
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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