Job summary
- Main area
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapist - Young Persons Diabetes Service
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent Funding is in place.
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-ME03375
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole
- Town
- Poole
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Young Person's Diabetes Service Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
Band 8a
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Young Person’s Diabetes Service at University Hospitals Dorset, working with patients aged 16-23 and their families as they transition from paediatric services into adult services.
If you would like to discuss this post further or arrange to visit the team please do contact Dr Lindsey Rouse, Clinical Psychologist, UHD Diabetes Service, 0300 019 4610, [email protected].
Base Location: Poole
Interview Date : TBC
Main duties of the job
You will be warmly welcomed by the Diabetes Teams and well-supported to develop into the role. The post will involve working in an integrated diabetes MDT, to work alongside the Clinical Psychologist to develop psychological pathways and provide specialist psychological assessment, intervention and psycho-education with outpatients. As a valued member of the MDT, you will provide consultation, advice, training and supervision to staff on patients' psychological wellbeing.
If you would like to discuss this post further or arrange to visit the team please do contact Dr Lindsey Rouse, Clinical Psychologist, UHD Diabetes Service, 0300 019 4610, [email protected].
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to the annual assessment of the emotional wellbeing of young people in the service and feedback to the YP Diabetes MDT.
To provide evidence based psychological interventions to YP with diabetes, where difficulties with, or the impact of, diabetes form a significant part of the YP's presentation.
To support the YP Diabetes team to develop their understanding and approaches to the psychological factors affecting how a YP and their family manage diabetes.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS. OR Qualification from a High Intensity IAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma) or equivalent
- Registration/Accreditation (or accreditable) with the HCPC, UKCP, BACP or BABCP
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children, young people who have diabetes and their families
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lindsey Rouse
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist - UHD Diabetes and Endocrine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 4610
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