Children's Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

To lead and develop the psychological care discipline of the paediatric diabetes team. To ensure the psychological needs of the children and young people in the care of the paediatric diabetes team are anticipated, met and supported.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions  within and across teams

• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for individuals and families

• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of patients s and agencies serving the patient group.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
• To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care setting) including patients, their carers referring agents and others involved in the network of care.

• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full responsibilities.

For more details, please contact Mark Weston [email protected]