Specialist DIabetes Clinical Psychologist-Surrey Downs H&C
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,888.00 to £64,880.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £57888.00 - £64880.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 March 2026 |
| Location: | Leatherhead, KT22 8SD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9343-26-0229 |
Summary
Clinical 1. To be responsible for providing a comprehensive, specialist assessment service for patients referred by Diabetes team members. This input will be based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care. 2. To identify the nature, severity and complexity of the client's problems and to communicate this information in a skilled and sensitive manner to client, referrer and other health professionals involved in the client's care 3. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering a range of theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes and medical factors that have shaped the individual, family or group. Decision making will also consider knowledge about the provision of and involve liaising with other local specialist services. 4. To advise clients, family members and others involved in the client's care on the appropriate management of difficulties and arrange referral to other services if needed. 5. Implement a range of psychological interventions with individuals, couples and families, continually adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provision hypotheses and employing methods based upon evidence of treatment efficacy. 6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the efficiency of all aspects of the Clinical Psychology Service within the Surrey Downs team including assessment, treatment and discharge of patients. 7. Where patients present with multiple needs e.g. patients with severe mental health problems and persistent pain, to liaise with other local specialist services eg mental health services to enable effective case management, and to offer specialist advice, consultation and guidance to other health professionals concerning the management of such cases. 8. To develop educational materials for use with the Diabetes team to inform clients on psychological aspects of diabetes. 9. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team. 10. To ensure that all members of the team at the Diabetes Centre have access to a framework for understanding the range of psychosocial difficulties that clients present with through the dissemination of psychological research and theory. 11. To undertake risk assessment with clients and provide advice to other health professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management General 1. To ensure 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, HCPC and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust. 2. To maintain up to date knowledge of developments in the speciality of diabetes and Clinical Health Psychology and national and local policies related to the delivery of diabetes and Clinical Health Psychology Services 3. To ensure the development and the maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in continuing professional development in consultation with the post holder's professional and service managers. 4. To be responsible for the development and articulation of best practices in psychology within the Diabetes Service, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines. 5. To contribute to work to raise awareness of good psychological practice in the care of medical patients within the Trust and, in conjunction with the Trust professional Lead for Clinical Psychology, to advise on further service developments in line with these principles where appropriate. 6. Through active participation in professional special interest groups, contribute to work to develop the profession of Clinical Health Psychology and its contribution to the effective care of medical patients. Organisational 1. To work towards achieving the objectives and goals of Surrey Downs Health and Care. 2. Assist in the development, evaluation and monitoring of operational policies and procedures for the Clinical Psychology Service to Diabetes Services. 3. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and / or organisational matters need addressing 4. To regularly liaise with the service manager in order to ensure that the service runs effectively, safely and efficiently 5. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service provided at the Diabetes centre as a whole through deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation, audit and team organisation 6. To contribute where appropriate to the development of psychological aspects of care of people with diabetes at a local, regional and national level through involvement in teaching, training and service review. Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.