Salary: Band 8A £53,755 - £60,504 per annum DOE
Why Join Us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units, and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We also have a range of residential and supported living services across the UK in which we deliver person-centred support that enables life-changing outcomes. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse, and more to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly enthusiastic about the jobs they do; you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Job Summary
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Location: Ty Aberdafen
21 Hours per week
Main Duties of the Job
MAIN PURPOSE
To work as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team, providing clinical psychology and neuropsychology input within the BIRT neurobehavioural model to service users with acquired brain injury. You will lead in ensuring the neurobehavioural model of rehabilitation is delivered through multi/interdisciplinary working. You will consult with internal and external professionals, family members, and service users. You will engage in relevant research and advise other professionals as appropriate.
Job Responsibilities
* To provide specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members, and others involved in the service users' care.
* To complete pre-admission assessments, developing specialist, collaborative, and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individual's rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals.
* To coordinate Service Users' care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/clinical lead.
* To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required.
* To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurobehavioural rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/interdisciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice.
* To elicit personal goals from service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team.
* To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family, group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
* To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi/interdisciplinary assessment of service users and their families. You will contribute specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/interdisciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.
* To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/interdisciplinary team.
* To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users.
* To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on your own caseload.
* To participate in regular on-call support for the Unit on a rota basis.
* To demonstrate a duty of care to equipment and resources supplied by Brainkind.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Degree in Psychology accepted by BPS for Graduate Basis Registration (GBR) or equivalent.
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (BPS accredited) or its equivalent to meet requirements to register as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC.
* Registered with the HCPC.
* Demonstrate an interest in clinical neuropsychology.
* General knowledge of acquired brain injury pathology, neuroanatomy, symptoms, characteristics, course of recovery, and rehabilitation approaches.
* Relevant experience in producing clinical reports.
* At least 2 years experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a relevant clinical area.
* Working within a multi/interdisciplinary team, supporting team processing and promoting psychological thinking within team formulations and goal setting.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Brainkind
Address: The Avenue, Llanelli, SA15 2DP
Employer's Website: https://brainkind.org/
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