Key Responsibilities: KR 1 Clinical and Client Care To work as an independent, autonomous principal clinical psychologist, taking full responsibility for their own work. To work within guidelines of the British Psychological Society, HCPC and Trust policies and procedures of the service to provide a highly specialised Clinical Neuropsychology Service to the Robertson Unit. To plan, prioritise and be accountable for own caseload, taking responsibility for the provision of highly specialist, complex, psychological and neuropsychological assessment, care and interventions with service users and families referred to the Robertson Unit. To use highly specialised neuropsychological test equipment in the assessment of complex clinical cases, intact physical and perceptual skills and highly developed manual dexterity will be required. To give in-depth mental attention while pro-actively engaged with a service user undertaking psychological or neuropsychological assessments and while recording the service users responses and reactions. To interpret, analyse and integrate highly complex psychological and non-psychological information e.g. regarding developmental history, data gathered from psychological and neuropsychological test equipment, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care. To communicate highly complex, often technical, psychological or neuropsychological assessment findings and recommendations to service users, family members, carers and staff in a clear and empathic manner. This will often require a high degree of sensitivity as situations will frequently be highly emotive. To formulate the service users problems based on the highly complex information and perspectives gathered during the assessment and drawing on psychological and neuropsychological theory and research. To develop psychological/neuropsychological interventions based on the formulation and to adapt this according to further review/reformulation. To plan, coordinate and implement a range of different types of highly specialist therapies/interventions considering theoretical and therapeutic models, the available evidence base, multi-modal assessments and interventions and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. These may include cognitive rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, cognitive-behavioural, systemic according to the service users problem or circumstances. To provide timely written assessment and discharge reports for all service users seen and other relevant reports as appropriate. To collaborate with a variety of different staff e.g. staff working into other inpatient or community-based services, staff from third sector organisations regarding the care and treatment of service users and to provide highly specialist consultation advice to such staff. Please view the job description for more details on the roles and responsibilities of the post.