Clinical Psychologist/ Neuropsychologist - Inpatient rehabilitation
This is an exciting opportunity for Clinical Psychologists/ Neuropsychologists wishing to be part of an established MDT to establish neuropsychology within Magnolia unit, a 34 bedded Inpatient rehabilitation service with Stroke - neuro-rehabilitation beds alongside complex multipathology beds supported by a friendly collaborative MDT.
You will be responsible for the provision of highly specialist neuropsychological assessments and brief interventions with patients following stroke, assessing mood, adjustment, behavioural and cognitive functioning using clinical interview, structured observations, highly specialist psychometric measures and other assessment methods as appropriate. Working closely with the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will advise patients, their relatives/carers, and non-psychologist colleagues about ways of supporting, managing or remediating mood, behaviour and cognitive difficulties.
There will be opportunities to develop individual and group intervention pathways, in collaboration with the MDT.
Wider roles include supervising Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and (where relevant in future) junior qualified psychologists, and MDT colleagues. There will be opportunities to support development of new service pathways (e.g. for Acute stroke services) under supervision from the Service Manager and Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, as appropriate to the role/service.
Main duties of the job
See job description for full details.
Whilst working autonomously within the Inpatient rehabilitation team at Magnolia unit, the post holder will also be joining an expanding and supportive neuropsychology team. Our ethos is for every member of the team to grow as a clinician and a leader, and to be enabled to maintain their wellbeing in work. Supervision will be provided by the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist (or nominated senior colleague), which can be used to progress eligibility towards the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN) if wished. The post holder will also join our regular journal clubs and complex case discussions, as well as wider Psychological Therapies, Neuropsychology & Counselling (PTNC) network meetings across the Royal Free. All PTNC colleagues have access to virtual group supervision in a range of approaches, currently including schema-focused, narrative, ACT, psychodynamic, and EMDR modalities.
We welcome colleagues keen to share their own specialist interests/skills into our team. We have close links with the North Thames DClinPsy training courses and encourage all colleagues to offer placements and deliver teaching as part of their CPD portfolio.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification documents for full details of job and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education & professional Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society.
* Entered (or eligible to be) on the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists, or willing to work towards this.
* Valid professional registration with Health Care Professions Council
* Enrolled on a course of study and supervision leading to eligibility for the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN)
Experience
* Post-doctoral experience in neuropsychological assessment/interventions.
* Experience in the use and interpretation of psychometric neuropsychological tests
* Experience of working with adult and older adult patients with acquired and progressive neurological conditions with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
* Experience of working with behaviours that challenge others / behaviours of concern
* Experience in the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working with other agencies on clinical care, including statutory and voluntary sector organisations
* Experience of teaching and training other psychologists and MDT colleagues
* Experience of supervising and line managing others
* Experience of service development and evaluation
* Experience of mental capacity assessment and best interests' processes
* Experience of working with other agencies on service or organisational delivery across providers, including statutory and voluntary sector organisations
Skills and aptitudes
* Well-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Professions Council.
* Able to identify and articulate own learning/training needs
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group, and NHS.
Personal Qualities & attributes
* Ability to work constructively under pressure
* Demonstrable commitment to multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency work
* Self motivated with a positive attitude towards work
* Able to make decisions and problem-solve when dealing with both routine and novel complex situations
Other
* Able to travel within the community and to Trust sites for the purposes of meetings and patient care
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.
Magnolia unit manager & Integrated Therapies Lead
£59,490 to £66,239 a year inclusive of outer London HCAS pro rata, per annum
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