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Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist Band 8c

Regional Hyperacute Rehabilitation Unit (RHRU)

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Full-time 1.0 WTE (37.5 hours)

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This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual with expertise in neuro-rehabilitation to lead the clinical psychology team on the RHRU. The post-holder will be responsible for the development and provision of the specialist post-acute neuro-rehabilitation and clinical psychology service for the Unit, which comprises inpatient facilities and outreach services.

The Regional Hyper-Acute Rehabilitation Unit is a 24 bed unit and one of five of London’s Level 1 specialist neuro-rehabilitation services.  It provides hyper-acute and post-acute, complex, specialised, in-patient rehabilitation, primarily for working age adults with severe complex neuro-disability.  It covers a large supra regional area and its programmes include Hyper-acute rehabilitation, post-acute intensive rehabilitation, complex disability management, assessment and management of people in a prolonged disorder of consciousness (PDOC) and support to patients/families of those requiring neuro-palliative intervention.

The RHRU psychology service operates within a highly integrative and interdisciplinary model of goal-orientated rehabilitation working collaboratively alongside patients, families and over 100-strong team of doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and support staff.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The postholder will have responsibility for providing a high quality psychology service within the highly specialised field of neuro-rehabilitation.  You are expected to carry a caseload and key work and are responsible for developing psychological formulations as well as implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions

You will act as a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community and would be able to propose and implement audits/research, contributing towards policy, governance and strategic planning in order to support service developments.  You would be actively involved with discipline specific and multi-disciplinary in-service training and national/international teaching.

You would also join the leadership team of the wider LNWH Psychological Services Network (PSN). This brings together psychological specialists from across the Trust and provides support, training and service development as part of the network.

CPD and research are actively encouraged, and opportunities can be discussed at interview.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.  

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.