Clinical Psychologist - Children Diabetes

Clinical Psychologist - Children Diabetes NHS AfC: Band 7 Main area: Children's Diabetes; Contract: Permanent; Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week; Job ref: 828

Site: Lister Hospital, Stevenage
Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/:59
Interview date: 06/03/2026

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust. Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities.

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.

Our values: Include, Respect, Improve. We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include - We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect - We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve - We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist - Children and Young People (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 multidisciplinary 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 and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way 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

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 and 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, and we are committed to listening and considering all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and 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

• 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.

Previous Experience

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of using Cognitive behavioral therapy and 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, particularly those with long-term conditions.
• Group work and teaching experience.

Skills

• 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 of the emotional effects and implications of long-term illness on children, adolescents and their families.
• Ability to support 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 service requirements.
• Ability to act as an advocate for the service at department levels.
• Ability to chair or facilitate large, multi-disciplinary groups.
• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team including planning of specialised programmes of care.
• Ability to devise and deliver training for others both in-house and externally.
• Ability to provide specialist advice, training, and consultation for other professionals.
• Willingness to seek help and utilise the skills of others as appropriate.
• Awareness of child protection; IT skills including word processing, designing, and using spreadsheets and databases.

Knowledge

• The ability to engage with children and young people, to develop a trusting therapeutic relationship in highly complex distressing circumstances.
• Ability to facilitate the learning of others in didactic or experiential teaching sessions or formal presentations.
• Ability to develop a strong working relationship with paediatric staff.
• Ability to contain and hold organisational stress and engage therapeutically with staff.
• 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 communicate in clinical reports; ability to work with others.
• Willingness to seek help and utilise the skills of others; use of clinical supervision and mutual support in a multidisciplinary context.
• Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion; role modelling Trust values daily.

When you apply

Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts. This means even if you have the right to work currently but will require a new sponsorship to work for our Trust your application will not be considered.

Vacancies may close earlier than the advertised closing date where a high volume of applications are received. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out on the opportunity to join the Trust or develop your career with us.

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