Principal Clinical/Practitioner Psychologist Young Adult Diabetes

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking an enthusiastic practitioner psychologist to join the Young Adults Diabetes Service in London. This innovative role involves working with young adults (ages 16-25) living with diabetes, providing psychological assessments, individual and group interventions. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop the service, ensuring high-quality care and support during their transition to adult services. The position is based at Mile End Hospital and involves collaboration across multiple Trust sites.

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people with long-term health conditions.
• Qualified applied psychologist with HCPC registration.
• Training in clinical supervision for Doctoral trainees.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive psychology assessment and support for young people with diabetes.
• Work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and develop new working methods.
• Supervise other members of the Young Adults Diabetes Service.

Skills

Communication

Psychological assessment

Management of distress

Research skills

Ability to work in multidisciplinary settings

Education

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Eligibility for BPS Chartered Status

Tools

Statistical packages

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated practitioner psychologist to join the innovative Young Adults Diabetes Service. This mobile service will comprise a Dietician, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Social Worker and Youth Worker.

This exciting new post has been developed to improve diabetes care and outcomes for young people (age 16-25) with diabetes across North East London. The post holder will support young adults who may be struggling with a range of difficulties related to living with diabetes, as they make the transition to adult services. The work will mainly be with young adults living with Type 1 diabetes but there will also be scope to develop a pathway for young adults living with Type 2 diabetes.

As this is a new post, the post holder will have scope to develop the service, with the support of more senior colleagues and in collaboration with service users, and to take a leading role in the future of diabetes services for young adults across North East London.

The post will have a base at Mile End Hospital, but will involve working across all of the Barts Health sites, and ensuring that standardised, high quality care is delivered across the Trust.

This varied post will involve psychological assessment and formulation, individual work, group work and consultation. There is also scope to supervise other members of the Young Adults Diabetes Service.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the core young adults diabetes team across Barts Health to improve diabetes care and outcomes to all young people (age 16-25) with diabetes in North East London.

To work with the wider diabetes care pathway across primary care and mental health services in Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, City & Hackney and Newham, in order to provide joined up and effective psychological care to people with diabetes locally.

To provide a comprehensive psychology assessment and intervention service for young people with all type 1 or type 2 diabetes and support their transition from paediatric care to adult diabetes care and there on up to the age of 25.

The role will include working across all of the Barts Health sites and ensuring that standardised, high quality care is delivered across the trust.

Across all sites, to take the developmental lead, and be accountable for the direct provision of an autonomous and systematic specialist clinical service comprising specialised assessments, a range of psychological interventions appropriate to individuals who have Type 1 diabetes and support to the MDT, individuals, couples, careers and families, as appropriate.

To develop new ways of working, which could include group based psychological interventions. There will therefore be opportunities to develop leadership skills, as well as teaching and training skills.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Person Specification

Experience

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist
• Experience of working specifically with young people with long term health conditions
• Experience of working in a physical health setting, providing highly specialist health psychology assessment and treatment through 1:1 and group interventions with adults.
• Experience of working within MDT settings and providing consultation.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of teaching and training other professionals and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of working in a multi- cultural setting, including working with interpreters. Experience of working in an outpatient multi-disciplinary clinic
• Experience of working in the clinical field of diabetes
• Experience of working with clients to help facilitate and modify eating behaviours and relationship with food

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals and colleagues.
• Ability to contain, assess and mediate in situations with clients where they may be distressed and/or at risk to themselves and others.
• Ability to formulate complex clients' presenting difficulties within a theoretical framework, to plan and deliver an appropriate specialist treatment intervention, and to evaluate the efficacy and outcome of treatment.
• Doctoral level research skills and experience of both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Computer literacy. Including the use of databases, word processing, excel, powerpoint and statistical packages.
• Ability to concentrate within a complex therapeutic framework for up to 3-4 hours at a time.
• Ability to travel between different sites within the Trust and in the community for clinics, meetings, and other work- related responsibilities, as well as use virtual and telephone methods of communication.
• Able to independently manage own caseload, including auditing demand and supply, communicating with all stakeholders and adjusting caseload criteria accordingly.

Knowledge

• Awareness of confidentiality policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of the workings/structure of NHS organisations.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and Health Care Professionals Council.
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
• Eligible for BPS Chartered Status and membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology.
• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.

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.

£61,927 to £68,676 a yearper annum inc (pro rata)