Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Job overview
We are looking for a clinical psychologist/neuropsychologist to join our Adult Neuropsychology team in an exciting Trust-wide role in a one year fixed term (maternity cover) role. This part-time role is 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours).
You can find out more about the area and the services that we provide to local residents on our careers website - www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be part of a valued and established Adult Neuropsychology Consultation service in NELFT which offers specialist neuropsychological assessment, consultation and advice to teams in both community health and mental health pathways in the Trust. These teams include local community rehabilitation teams, specialist community neurology nurses, Talking Therapies (TT) and Mental Health and Well-Being Teams (MHWTs). The post-holder will be involved in neuropsychology pathway service development including generating business cases, supervision of qualified psychologists, trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists, delivery of teaching and training on neuropsychology topics, and promotion of the service throughout the Trust.
The main team base is in a new, purpose-built community health centre (Jane Atkinson Health and Well-Being Centre, Waltham Forest) but the other bases across NELFT's London boroughs could be used. Some hybrid working can be accommodated in the role. NELFT is a digitally literate Trust, with laptop and smart phone provision, and the post-holder will have access to Pearson's Qinteractive platform for their neuropsychological assessments.
Supervision is provided by a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN).
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide operational and clinical leadership within Adult Neuropsychology and to all psychological practitioners working in the neuropsychology pathway.
2. Further develop the neuropsychology pathway in NELFT.
3. Take responsibility for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement in the neuropsychology pathway.
4. Ensure a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based psychological service is available to all service users who need it.
5. Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental and community physical health services.
6. Ensure adherence to evidence based psychological treatments by all clinical staff within the neuropsychology pathway.
7. Manage any waiting list for the neuropsychology pathway and ensure the waiting list is at clinically safe levels and prioritising resources in line with clinical needs.
8. Lead in consultation, supervision, teaching and training of staff working within the neuropsychology pathway and playing a key role in audit and evaluation.
9. Lead on the delivery of specialist neuropsychological assessment, intervention and support service for service users referred within the neuropsychology pathway.
10. Leading on the delivery of neuropsychological services across psychology services.
11. Auditing and evaluating within the neuropsychology pathway. This will include reviewing people who do not engage with the service, and those who drop out, to identify ways of ensuring that the service is accessible and responsive to diverse needs.
12. Leading on the provision of expert neuropsychological advice, consultation and support to the services (e.g. Secondary Psychology, MHWT, TT) who are referring clients within the neuropsychology pathway.
13. Leading on the onward referral to secondary/primary care mental health services.
14. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of policies and procedures of the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* GBC undergraduate degree in psychology
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
* HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
* Post graduate diploma in Clinical Neuropsychology
* Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)
Experience
Essential criteria
* Substantial clinical experience working with neurological conditions
* Substantial experience working in teams using a consultative model
* Substantial experience supervising others
Desirable criteria
* Experience in adult mental health services
* Experience in leadership and service development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Depth & breadth of knowledge of neuropsychology, neurology and mental health
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of supervision models, frameworks and processes
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post. #J-18808-Ljbffr