Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical or counselling psychologist to work one day a week in the Camden Diabetes Integrated Practice Unit (IPU) as part of the Community Diabetes Service. This post is a key member of the IPU Team and has been successfully delivered one day a week. It is important for the potential candidate to be available on a Wednesday, which is key to role to attend the team MDT. The post holder will also work across two sites Peckwater Health Centre and Belsize Priory/Abbey Road Centre undertaking joint consultations with other team members, 1-2-1 clinics or groups.

The IPU works as a diverse multidisciplinary team in primary, secondary and tertiary care to design care plans that meet the needs of people with Diabetes.

The postholder will use their knowledge and skills to provide a range of interventions to ameliorate psychological distress and enhance physical and physiological wellbeing in service users. This role is embedded fully into the multi-disciplinary teams of the service and will provide psychological expertise to the team as well as working alongside medical and allied health professionals across a range of contexts.

We are looking for an HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of a wide variety of client groups across the full range of care settings.

The post holder will:

• Use their knowledge and skills to provide a range of interventions to ameliorate psychological distress and enhance physical and psychological wellbeing in service users.
• Support the psychological care offered to service users by other members of the multi-disciplinary team by providing consultation and training.
• Provide advice and support for colleagues and patients to maintain clinical excellence, improve diabetes services, reduce the number of admissions, length of stay in hospital and to promote patient self-care and improved quality of life.

Clinical:

• To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients' psychological difficulties.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
• To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about psychological treatment options.
• To provide psychological input to the structured education sessions run by the service.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual patients.
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users.

Teaching, training and supervision:

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a relevant senior clinical psychologist.
• To develop skills in the area of professional and/or post-graduate teaching, training and supervision.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development:

• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the operational policies and services of the Camden Integrated Diabetes Service.

Research and service evaluation:

• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice.

General:

• To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.