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
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.
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.
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
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
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 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.
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
Essential criteria
* 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
Essential criteria
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience of using Cognitive behavioral 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 long-term condition
* Group work Teaching experience
Skills
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of a wide range of theoretical approaches and techniques in working with children, and young people
* Ability to apply these in practice in an acute paediatric setting
* Some knowledge and understanding of the emotional effects and implications of long-term illness on children, adolescents, and their families
* Be able to support the planning and organisational skills to initiate and lead developments in the Paediatric diabetes service.
* Ability to coordinate audit, service evaluation, and research activities
* Ability to set priorities and manage workload and requirements of the service accordingly
* Ability to act as an advocate for the service at Department levels
* Ability to chair or facilitate large, multi-disciplinary groups
* The ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team including the planning of specialised programmes of care
* The ability to devise and deliver training for others both inhouse and externally
* The ability to provide specialist advice, training, and consultation for other professionals.
* A willingness to seek help and utilise the skills of others as appropriate
* Awareness of child protection
* IT skills include word processing, designing, and using spreadsheets and databases.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* The ability to engage with children and young people, to develop a trusting therapeutic relationship in highly complex distressing circumstances at a time when illness and pain are the primary focus
* Ability to facilitate the learning of others in didactic or experiential teaching sessions or formal presentations
* Ability to develop a strong working relationship with members of the paediatric staff. Interview Case presentation References
* Ability to contain and hold organisational stress e.g., engaging therapeutically with members of staff (individually or in a group) at times of work-related stress
* The ability to adapt emotionally and physically to the requirements and needs of the primary medical context.
* Ability to establish and maintain professional boundaries with staff, children, adolescents, and their families
* Ability to think clearly and express self both verbally and in clear, concise clinical reports
* Ability to work and communicate effectively with others.
* A willingness to seek help and utilise the skills of others as appropriate. This includes the use of clinical supervision and promoting mutual support in a multi-disciplinary team context
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion
* Role model our Trust values every day