Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in Paediatric Diabetes

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a fixed term Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist to join the Paediatric Psychology at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a split post across our 2 hospitals - Denmark Hill and The Princess Royal University Hospital.

This role would suit an existing 8a psychologist (looking to develop and enhance their skills working within paediatric psychology) or an enthusiastic and capable band 7 psychologist (looking to progress to an 8a role in an exciting area of clinical practice).

Established support structures are in place with the post holder benefitting from clinical and professional supervision, close working relationships within the multi-disciplinary teams within King’s College Hospital and peer support from a friendly and innovative group of psychologists, working in a busy hospital setting serving a diverse inner city population.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a highly specialist psychology service to the Paediatric Diabetes Service at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Denmark Hill and Princess Royal Hospital sites) including specialist screening, assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate to a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner inputting into the service. To
• undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles, policies and procedures of the employing organisation (King’s College Hospital), partner organisations (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) and the Paediatric Psychology Service at KCH.
• As part of the maternity leave cover job planning process; to agree outcomes/results with clinical supervisor/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a specialist psychology service to paediatric diabetes psychology patients; assessment, formulation, evidence-based treatment and implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• Together with senior colleagues, to ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service, responsible for screening, assessing and monitoring development, cognition and associated learning and neurodevelopmental outcomes, and onwards referrals according to local pathways.
• Ensuring that psychological wellbeing is being considered in the planning and delivery of multidisciplinary care to all patients.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation to non-psychology colleagues as appropriate.
• To undertake and contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

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.