Job overview

We are looking to welcome an enthusiastic, compassionate and experienced Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, who can play a significant part in enhancing and developing the psychological care of adults with diabetes across our locality. You will have previous experience of leadership and working in diabetes and physical healthcare settings, and will be looking to apply and expand your knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology in this area further.

The post holder will be joining an established team of psychological professionals working within a range of areas at Great Western Hospital, including Cancer Services, Pain Management, Critical Care, Weight Management, Paediatric Diabetes and Staff Health and Wellbeing. We meet regularly as a team for departmental team meeting, and value CPD, creativity and team wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the clinical, strategic and operational lead for the GWH Adult Diabetes Psychology Service. This will require working autonomously within professional, trust and departmental guidelines, and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the diabetes psychology service. They will be responsible for developing, leading, managing and providing an entirely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to adult patients of the Diabetes Care team in the general hospital setting.  The post holder will be responsible for enhancing the psychological care provided by the specialist diabetes care team in a variety of ways, including consultancy and training with the adult diabetes team, and will carry an appropriate clinical caseload of patients with a wide variety of difficulties and presentations, as well as contributing to appropriate multidisciplinary interventions and pathways within the service. As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, the post holder will be accountable for his/her own professional actions and will also manage and supervise other psychologists working across diabetes and/or endocrinology services. In collaboration with the Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, the post holder will carry out and contribute to audit, policy and service development, and research activities and/or programmes as appropriate and required

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger