Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – Diabetes (Adults)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves providing high-quality, specialist clinical/counselling psychology services to the Diabetes Centre, focusing on adults with diabetes and its complications. The post holder will conduct specialist psychological assessments and therapies, offer advice to other health professionals, and support clinical team members in psychosocial care. They will also contribute to audit, research, and service development projects, and play a key role in educating on psychologically informed care within the Diabetes Centre.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessments using complex data from various sources.
- Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients' difficulties.
- Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups.
- Evaluate and make decisions about management and treatment options, considering theoretical models and complex patient factors.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
- Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Current Registration as a Practitioner Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with the HCPC
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of working in the NHS across a range of settings
- Experience of working in medical teams
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge of clinical health psychology models / psychological aspects of chronic illness
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology / Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – Diabetes (Adults)
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for this post holder to join an integrated diabetes service in developing psychological support for Enfield residents living with diabetes and its complications. The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Lead for Diabetes, Medical Consultants, Diabetes Specialist Nurses and other colleagues to determine to how best to provide effective, evidence based psychological support for people with diabetes attending the service. Such input will be aimed at reducing diabetes related distress and disability and promoting wellbeing, adherence to treatment, and positive treatment outcomes in adults with complex diabetes related problems. Input will also support with signposting / referring people with diabetes to other relevant services for example. mental health teams.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the provision of a high quality, specialist clinical/counselling psychology service to the Diabetes Centre. 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. Where approp
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