Specialist DIabetes Clinical Psychologist-Surrey Downs H&C
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area
Surrey Downs Health \& Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time \- 15 hours per week (Monday and Tuesdays, but will consider flexibility for the right candidate)
Job ref
343\-SDH\&C\-7779439\-B
Site
Leatherhead Community Hospital
Town
Leatherhead
Salary
£59,798 \- £67,020 Pro Rata Per Annum inc Fringe HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
Surrey Downs Health \& Care
We are currently recruiting for a part time Specialist Diabetes Psychologist which has become available within our Community Diabetes Team in Surrey Downs. This is an exciting opportunity for a Diabetes Psychologist working jointly within our friendly multi disciplinary team of Consultants, Nurses, Dieticians and Podiatrists to offer specialist advice and input appropriate for a diverse range of complex and challenging problems including high levels of distress and risk, interpersonal difficulties and mental health problems for patients across Surrey Downs Health and Care.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the provision of a high\-quality Clinical Psychology Service to the Diabetes Service, within Surrey Downs community team aimed at reducing emotional distress and disability and promoting wellbeing, adherence to treatment and treatment outcomes in adults with diabetes. This will include providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on psychological aspects of diabetes to other health professionals and supporting clinical team members who provide psychosocial care. The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of the Clinical Psychology Service within the diabetes team and as such work autonomously, within recognised professional guidelines. The post holder will be expected to utilise their knowledge of evidence based psychological interventions and research skills to implement audit, research and service development projects. The postholder will also be involved in the training and continuing professional development of clinical psychologists and other health professionals.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
- The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
- Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Surrey Council County
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 Down’s 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.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post\-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996\) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Post\-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a considerable period with a significant amount at a highly specialist level with people with physical health problems
- Experience of psychological assessment, intervention and management working with a wide range of clinical presentations with complex, long\-term co\-morbid physical and mental health conditions including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi\-disciplinary care.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working with people with diabetes
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well\-developed knowledge of the psychology of adjustment to illness, role of distress in interfering with treatment and recovery, adherence to and decision\-making about treatment, and lifestyle changes to improve and maintain health.
- Highly skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non\-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical
Desirable criteria
- Well\-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with complex client groups (eg people with long\-term physical and mental health problems)
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We *do not*accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this \- otherwise, this may delay your pre\-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e\-mail/SMS if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e\-mail re
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