Job summary
** WELCOME BONUS £6000**(SUBJECT TO T&C'S)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and qualified Principal Psychologist in neurorehabilitation to join us and help change the lives of people living with acquired brain injury (ABI) We are seeking a Principal Psychologist capable of ensuring the provision and development of high quality, innovative and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice. The salary range for this post is £56,164 - £65,262 DOE (FTE) per annum with an introductory golden hello bonus of £6,000 which is subject to conditions. The Disabilities Trust is a leading UK charity that works alongside people with an acquired brain injury, autism, and learning or physical disabilities to help them live as independently as possible. Our teams across the UK support people to move forward with their lives. Its a special feeling to share their individual journeys and play a part in the progress they make.
Rewards:
1. A salary of £56,164 - £65,262 DOE Experience
2. £6000 Golden Hello Bonus!
3. 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) (pro rata)
4. QiCN Sponsorship
5. Excellent training and support
6. Group life assurance
7. Long service and staff awards
8. Free parking
9. Nationwide employee staff discounts including discounted gym membership, eating out and shopping
10. Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include:
11. ensuring the provision and development of high quality, innovative, and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice.
12. providing specialist psychological assessment of our service users, using psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, structured observations and interviews; - formulating and implementing specialist psychological treatment plans for mental health and adjustment difficulties based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice;
13. contributing highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and supervising their implementation; - undertaking psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and advising team members appropriately;
14. participating in multidisciplinary team meetings concerned with the delivery and development of clinical services; - Supporting Service Managers/Regional Managers in all aspects of managing the service and to report to the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.
About us
The Disabilities Trust is a leading UK charity that works alongside people with an acquired brain injury, autism, and learning or physical disabilities to help them live as independently as possible. Our teams across the UK support people to move forward with their lives. Its a special feeling to share their individual journeys and play a part in the progress they make. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do youll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN PURPOSE:
To provide strategic, professional leadership to the multi/inter disciplinary team within the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need. To interpretprofessional policies, ensuring that the services operate at the highest level of quality and current best practice. Research and development will be a major responsibility as will taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as a whole. To provide clinicalservices at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other clinicians within BIRT. To provide clinical leadership and direction for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust service across a designated service, including the clinical leadership of the multi/inter disciplinary team and support worker staff within designated service and other related BIRT services in the region.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To ensure the development of high quality, innovative, and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice within BIRT.
To support the Service Manager/Registered Manager/Regional Manager in all aspects of managing the service.
To function as a member of the Clinical Executive of consultant clinicians within the Disabilities Trust.
To externally represent and promote the Trusts approach to psychology.
To work with the service and regional managers to strategically promote appropriate referrals to the service, with development of clinical governance in line with Trust policies and directives.Clinical / Professional Practise
To provide a high level of expertise for specialist psychologicalassessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to (insert service location) and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sourcesincluding psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-reportscales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To complete preadmission assessments, developing highly specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individuals rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals.
To be competent to support the development of neurobehaviouralrehabilitation within the Service, supported by the clinical director and clinical leadership team.
To coordinate Service Users care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/ clinical lead.
To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. You will take the lead in very complex cases, over see the care plans and neurobehavioural rehabilitation guidelines, providing support to other psychologists and the rest of the multi/inter disciplinary team.
To lead on supporting the multi/inter disciplinary team in developing personal goals with service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team.
To support the multi/inter disciplinary team in the process of developing person centred, holistic goals based around personal values and social participation.
To be responsible for providing a highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families particularly for complex cases. You will contribute highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to beinvolved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff, particularly in complex cases.
To understand and communicate the BIRT whole team, holistic,neurobehavioural approach, to the clinical team, rehabilitation supportworkers.
To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required.
To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team.
To consult with and provide specialist neuropsychological guidance to carers and families of service users within BIRT.
To lead the Clinical Team and ensure that the Rehabilitation Support workers understand and implement the neurobehavioral rehabilitationapproach.
To do this by leading team meetings, ensuring staff havetutorials, group work, SMART goals and that other materials areavailable for supporting the clinical model within the service.
To support colleagues in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy to working within the BIRT Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation Model, and to encourage specialist learning and research within these professions.
To proactively liaise effectively with referrers and purchasers of BIRTservices, to develop commissioning links with NHS and other providers via linking in with relevant regional and other structures where possible.
To develop service delivery in conjunction with managers and clinicians, that meets CQCs and clinical governances standards ofexcellence.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
15. Good honours degree in Psychology 2 ii or above.
16. Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS and to meet registration with HCPC.
17. Registered Clinical Psychologist with HCPC.
18. Member of the BPS.
19. Post Graduate training in Neuropsychology
20. through an accredited route for the QiCN ( PG
21. Dip).
22. Ability to comprehend and communicate verbally
23. and in writing highly complex and sensitive
24. information in a manner appropriate to a range of
25. settings and audiences, including complex highly
26. emotive situations and those with significantly
27. impaired communication capacities.
Desirable
28. Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology. Member of the
29. Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists.
30. Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.
31. Post graduate training in psychological therapy models.
32. Ability to plan and organise over the
33. long term, the delivery of a large
34. specialist service in the light of a
35. thorough understanding of national
36. policy and an expert interpretation of
37. current professional best practice.
38. Sound skills in the management of
39. specialist professional staff, of the day to
40. day management of clinical services and
41. of financial resources.