Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in collaboration with Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust are offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, innovative and experienced practitioner psychologist to develop psychology provision to the paediatric diabetes team in East Surrey Hospital. This is a 0.8wte permanent position, you will be employed by SABP and seconded to Surrey and Sussex Partnership NHS Trust. This role will lead the development of a psychology service for children with diabetes, working with a well-established multi-professional team. You will ensure that the team is supported in understanding the psychosocial needs of young people with diabetes and have access to expert consultation. You will have the opportunity to work with CYP aged between 2- 19 years, assessing the psychological needs of newly diagnosed patients, offering evidence based psychological interventions for individuals, groups and families, and building effective transition pathways into adult services. You will offer supervision, teaching and consultation to peer and junior professionals, including 8a Clinical Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists. There will be fantastic opportunities for CPD and the option to attend the quarterly regional Diabetes Psychology and Diabetes professional network meetings. There will also be the possibility to showcase exemplar work at national conferences like the BSPED.

Main duties of the job

• To plan and deliver a highly specialist psychology service for children with diabetes and oversee its clinical governance.
• To develop pathways to ensure children with diabetes have their mental health needs and emotional wellbeing screened and when needed have access to evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, groups and families.
• To ensure children and families who use the service are involved in development of the service.
• To be responsible for the clinical supervision of psychology staff working in the service.
• To work alongside the relevant management and clinical teams to do the above.
• To deliver highly specialist psychology assessments, interventions and consultation to children with diabetes and their families.
• To contribute to service-related activity including research, service evaluation and audit.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Home Working Contract Only - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
• Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees

Desirable

• Additional academic clinical qualification in psychological therapy
• Additional leadership/management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post qualification clinical experience in child mental health
• Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work
• Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies
• Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation
• Demonstrable experience of developing complex formulations drawing on multiple psychological models
• Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk

Desirable

• Extensive post qualification experience in a health setting

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, East Surrey Hospital,

Canada Avenue

Redhilll

RH1 5RH

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325-6312178-CYPS