Job summary
- Main area
- Neuropsychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 455-CANDI-666-H
- Employer
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lordship Lane Primary Care Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inclusive of HCAS pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist Community Neurorehabilitation
NHS AfC: Band 8a
North London Mental Health Partnership includes Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I).
Together, our two trusts employ around 6,000 staff and support almost a quarter of a million adults and children with mental health conditions. We are a forward-thinking, innovative organisation, committed to delivering the very best care possible.
We provide a wide range of mental health specialist services, including children and young people’s mental health services, prison services, forensic services, eating disorders and drug and alcohol recovery. We also support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces, providing specialist veteran services across London.
Both our trusts are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many areas judged to be Outstanding.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide Apprenticeship opportunities as well as employment opportunities for care-leavers.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We are a great place to work for our staff with occupational health services, wellbeing initiatives and staff incentives.
- We offer flexible working,
- Our staff are eligible for the NHS Pension Scheme and receive a generous annual leave allowance.
- Discounts are offered to NHS staff in a wide range of stores and services
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups
- We support learning and personal development opportunities.
Job overview
Job title: Clinical Psychologist for Community Stroke and Neurorehabilitation
Salary: Band 8a (depending on previous experience)
Job type: Permanent
Full time (1.0 WTE) –37.5 hours per week
Main duties of the job
We are delighted to offer the exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist specialising in neuropsychology to work in Haringey stroke and neuro-rehabilitation services. This is a new post with opportunities to develop the role of neuropsychology within the wider MDT. The post involves close working with occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists; strong communication and team-working skills are essential. The successful candidate will have post-qualification clinical and consulting experience in the area of neuropsychology. The post-holder will also be part of a small but supportive neuropsychology team which supports learning, creative working and service development. They will be supervised by the lead clinical neuropsychologist. The teams value and celebrate diversity and welcome candidates from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Working for our organisation
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide specialist neuropsychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients and their families to provide psychological treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
- To provide specialist neuropsychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
- To undertake responsibilities as a member of the multi-professional Community Rehabilitation Team, including attending team meetings.
- To liaise with specialist units around the country with whom Islington patients are placed, monitoring the rehabilitation programmes provided in the units and planning for discharge back to local services.
Teaching, training, and supervision
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee psychologists and, where required, assistant psychologists.
- To continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or other applied psychologists, as appropriate.
- To provide supervision to other professional groups as appropriate (e.g. occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistants).
- Management, policy and service development.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services’ operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of trainee psychologists and, where required, of assistant psychologists, within the framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
Research and service evaluation
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluate service provision.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of substantial post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical NHS experience working with clients in the area of neuro-rehabilitation/assessment
- Experience of working as a psychologist within a neuro multi-disciplinary team
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with neurological conditions.
- Further training (to include CPD events) in the application of clinical neuropsychology
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Annmarie Burns
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For any question please contact the following:
Dr Annmarie Burns
Lead Clinical Neuropsychologist
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