Principal Paediatric Clinical Counselling Psychologist Diabetes Cancer
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9249-26-0074 |
Summary
1. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professionalresponsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. 2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence based psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients difficulties. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 4. To evaluate and make complex decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. 5. To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues relating to paediatric diabetes and cancer at a high level of professional expertise to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with the service users, across a range of agencies/settings as appropriate. 6. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to benefit all children and young people seen within the two services. 7. To undertake highly complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including assessments of individuals who are frequently aggressive. 8. To provide specialist psychological advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other professionals in order to develop a psychological understanding on the basis of which to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions for clients with complex needs. 9. To be responsible for the professional supervision and development of trainee clinical psychologists in the service. 10. To assess the need for further training and access CPD when necessary. 11. To lead on local and national initiatives relevant to psychology. 12. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care to the MDTs and other relevant organisations. 13. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external continuing professional development training and development programmes, in consultation with management. 14. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner. 15. Take part in regular professional and managerial supervision and appraisal and maintain an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines. 16. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures. 17. 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. 18. To participate fully in multidisciplinary team meeting and activities as appropriate. 19. To attend case conferences, reviews and other meetings as appropriate. 20. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 21. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychology and/or organisational matters need addressing. 22. To work with team/service lead on service policy development and review. 23. To make informed comment on local and divisional policy affecting service development. 24. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of their psychological practice within the service.