Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – Diabetes (Adults)

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 4. To evaluate and make decisions about management and treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning illness, historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. With ability to critically weigh up and incorporate into treatment planning differing opinions regarding the aetiological and maintenance factors within client and family presentation. 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. 6. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals involved in the clients care. 7. To ensure that members of multidisciplinary teams working within the Diabetes Centre have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding clients difficulties through the provision of advice and consultations, and the dissemination of psychological research and theory 8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management as appropriate for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.