An exciting opportunity has arisen within Peartree Neurological Specialist Community Service for an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join our highly developed interdisciplinary community team on a part-time basis. This role is being offered as a Band 6 or 7.
For December and January, we are offering a £1000 welcome bonus, payable after 6 months probation.
Peartree Community Service is a specialist service in Southampton dedicated to providing assessment and rehabilitation to clients with Neurological conditions in the local community, with the aim of reintegration into the community, family, social, education, and work settings. The post-holder would have opportunities to work with our community service. The post-holder will be supervised by our community manager and work closely alongside our dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team, which includes Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, and Nursing. The post-holder would be supported to pursue formal training in neuropsychology (QiCN) with protected study time and opportunities for the service to contribute towards course fees.
The post benefits from sick pay and company pension scheme.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will help provide neuropsychology service to Peartree Community Clients in their own homes, virtually or at our outpatient hub. This will require some travel to see clients in their own homes.
You will be expected to work autonomously whilst providing a range of specialist cognitive, behavioural, and emotional assessments and rehabilitation to clients. You will need to demonstrate the ability to communicate complex, sensitive, and emotive information to a range of people, some of whom may have serious neurological, cognitive, and/or behavioural difficulties.
The role extends to working with families and support networks (where appropriate), key-working, liaison with other agencies, opportunities for running therapeutic groups, consultation, as well as training/provision of support to other staff.
The post offers a fantastic opportunity to work collaboratively within a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team, promoting psychological approaches to assessment and intervention within neurorehabilitation. All applicants must have HCPC registration. Excellent teamworking, communication, and organisational skills are essential.
Job responsibilities
To work as part of an interdisciplinary team, providing clinical psychology input within the Peartree Community service to service users with acquired brain injury, FND, anxiety, and other neurological conditions. To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members, and service users. To engage in relevant research and advise other professionals as appropriate.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of adults with neurological conditions and clients experiencing anxiety within the community setting, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-reports, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members, and others involved in the service users' care.
2. To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of service users' neuropsychological and mental health problems based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
3. 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, and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
4. To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own case load.
5. To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-disciplinary assessment of service users and their families.
6. To contribute highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary 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.
7. To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi-disciplinary team.
8. To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of the evidence base for specialist areas of clinical psychology with regards to assessment and rehabilitation.
* Ability to plan and organise individual and group therapy interventions at a high standard.
* Ability to interpret a range of national guidelines and policies to advise and coordinate the provision of psychological care in the service.
* Skills in the use of a range of psychological assessment and intervention strategies and the ability to integrate complex data from a variety of sources.
* Skills in the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing a variety of complex, technical, and clinically sensitive information to a range of recipients (e.g. clients, their families, carers, and members of the multidisciplinary team and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS).
* Skills in providing supervision and consultation to other professionals and non-professionals within the service.
* The ability to employ strategies of clinical governance to support the development of good clinical practice.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design, methodology, and complex multivariate analysis in clinical psychology.
* Evidence of ability to conduct service evaluations and audits.
Qualifications
* Honours degree in Psychology (2.1 or 1st Class).
* Eligibility for membership of DCP of the British Psychological Society & Chartered Status.
* Post-graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (e.g. DClinPsy) or equivalent.
* Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC (Health & Care Professions Council).
* Previous clinical experience within the field of neuropsychology, post-qualification training in Clinical Neuropsychology (e.g. PGDip or MSc) or completing training.
* Post-qualification training in clinical supervision.
Experience
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of neuropsychology.
* Experience of working with people with a wide range of acquired neurological difficulties (e.g. traumatic brain injury, stroke, degenerative disorders, tumours, epilepsy).
* Experience of working with a variety of client groups, and with a variety of presenting problems including complex, highly emotive, and distressing problems such as verbal abuse and the threat of physical violence.
* Experience of clinical supervision (junior psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and/or Trainee Psychologists).
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients in a range of settings including in-patients, outpatients, community, and group work.
* Experience of teaching and training to doctoral trainees and/or healthcare staff.
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.
£40,105 to £52,809 a year pro rata, per annum.
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