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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.
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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.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
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: