Key responsibilities include conducting complex neuropsychological assessments, formulating tailored psychological interventions, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals. The postholder will work autonomously within the guidelines of the British Psychological Society and the Health and Care Professions Council, with a strong focus on leadership and professional development. Opportunities for hybrid working may be explored, and continuing professional development is actively supported. The Trust encourages applications from candidates who represent the cultural and social diversity of the communities it serves.
We are looking to recruit a motivated principal clinical psychologist to join the multidisciplinary inpatient neurorehabilitation team at Willesden Junction. The postholder would be joining a Specialist Clinical Psychologist to deliver the service. This post would suit a psychologist who thrives in the inpatient setting and is looking for a leadership opportunity.
The Neurorehabilitation Psychology service is embedded in a large Clinical Health Psychology service, including specialities in Bariatrics, Burns, HIV & Sexual Health, Intensive Care, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Pain and Staff Psychology. The CHP service has a strong commitment to embedding core values of equality, diversity and inclusion at the core of our work.
We are committed to improving access to services, striving for equity for all. Continuing professional development is actively supported, as well as hosting trainees from the North Thames Doctoral courses.
We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves, as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities.
The postholder will be supported to develop their career and flourish as a valued member of the psychology staff group. There are also a number of support systems within the Trust including staff peer networks.
The postholder will take a lead clinician role, providing management and clinical supervision to B7 psychologist working in the service. The role will be on site, although hybrid models of working could be explored.
The postholder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy in the context of a multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation team. The post holder will offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care.
Clinical responsibilities include provision of highly specialised psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions for service users and specialist consultation for rehabilitation staff. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and be responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the multidisciplinary teams across the above settings.
Leadership responsibilities will be a key component of this post. The post holder will lead on engaging service users to support the development of services offered within the above settings.
The postholder will contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
The postholder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.
The post holder will work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and Trust policies.
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Key Responsibilities:
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
To work as an independent, autonomous principal clinical psychologist, taking full responsibility for their own work.
To work within guidelines of the British Psychological Society, HCPC and Trust policies and procedures of the service to provide a highly specialised Clinical Neuropsychology Service to the Robertson Unit.
To plan, prioritise and be accountable for own caseload, taking responsibility for the provision of highly specialist, complex, psychological and neuropsychological assessment, care and interventions with service users and families referred to the Robertson Unit.
To use highly specialised neuropsychological test equipment in the assessment of complex clinical cases, intact physical and perceptual skills and highly developed manual dexterity will be required.
To give in-depth mental attention while pro-actively engaged with a service user undertaking psychological or neuropsychological assessments and while recording the service users responses and reactions.
To interpret, analyse and integrate highly complex psychological and non-psychological information e.g. regarding developmental history, data gathered from psychological and neuropsychological test equipment, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To communicate highly complex, often technical, psychological or neuropsychological assessment findings and recommendations to service users, family members, carers and staff in a clear and empathic manner. This will often require a high degree of sensitivity as situations will frequently be highly emotive.
To formulate the service users problems based on the highly complex information and perspectives gathered during the assessment and drawing on psychological and neuropsychological theory and research.
To develop psychological/neuropsychological interventions based on the formulation and to adapt this according to further review/reformulation.
To plan, coordinate and implement a range of different types of highly specialist therapies/interventions considering theoretical and therapeutic models, the available evidence base, multi-modal assessments and interventions and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. These may include cognitive rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, cognitive-behavioural, systemic according to the service users problem or circumstances.
To provide timely written assessment and discharge reports for all service users seen and other relevant reports as appropriate.
To collaborate with a variety of different staff e.g. staff working into other inpatient or community-based services, staff from third sector organisations regarding the care and treatment of service users and to provide highly specialist consultation advice to such staff.
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