Clinical / Clinical & Forensic Psychologist - Neuropsychiatry

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can achieve more at St Andrews Healthcare

St Andrews is the UKs largest mental health charity and a unique provider of specialist care in mental health, learning disability and neuropsychiatry. Based across our three sites (Northampton, Birmingham and Essex) and our Community Partnership Division supporting hundreds of people in the community, we aspire to deliver truly world class, holistic services within our outstanding, modern facilities. As a Charity, our independence means we can always put patients and service users interests at the heart of decision making, while re-investing surpluses in frontline services.

This post offers an opportunity for a newly qualified or early career Clinical Psychologist looking for full time work in our Neuropsychiatry Division in Northampton, working across our Acquired Brain Injury Service. You will join a large team of over 20 Consultant Psychologists and 50 other registered Psychologists across the Charity, and a team of 5 Qualified Psychologists and 7.5 Assistant Psychologist in the Neuropsychiatry Division. In Neuropsychiatry, you will deliver highly specialised neurobehavioural rehabilitation to adults with acquired brain injury, behaviour that challenges and complex comorbidities.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrews CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.

The Northampton site hosts services that include: Neuropsychiatry (including Acquired Brain Injury, Progressive Neurological Conditions Dementia and Huntingtons Disease, and Older Adults); Low Secure and Specialist Rehabilitation (including PICU); Learning Disability; Autism; Medium Secure Forensics; CAMHS; and Community Partnerships, as well as our Academic and Research and Innovation Centres, offering great opportunities to broaden and develop your skills in the future. The Neuropsychiatry Division also regularly provides placements for undergraduate Psychology students and Clinical Trainees. The Northampton site has facilities linked to our vocational service, Workbridge, such as a café, garden centre, charity shop, woodwork and ceramics workshop, all co-staffed by St Andrews staff and patients, and community-based service users. Other facilities include gyms and swimming pools for patients and staff to use. These are located within over 150 acres of beautiful grounds (please see link below for more details).

https://www.stah.org/who-we-are/locations/northampton/

The Person

We would like to recruit a Clinical Psychologist who has:

• Experience of, or a strong interest in, working with people with acquired brain injury.
• Experience of working systemically within an inpatient setting with people presenting with behaviours that challenge and risk.
• HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist.
• Candidates will have the necessary skills, competencies and potentials to fulfil the job description associated with the post.
• Desire to apply your skills and expertise by providing clinical and risk assessments for our patients, and to collaboratively develop formulations, plan and sequence psychological interventions, and consult with the wider clinical team to enable patients to progress to the least restrictive environments.
• Aspiration to membership of the Specialist Register of the BPS Division of Neuropsychology is especially valued.
• Desire to develop further, for example, to become an APT RAID Tutor, a Dementia Care Mapper, or obtain the QiCN.
• Experience in delivering neuropsychology services, including cognitive assessment and rehabilitation.

The ServiceAs a result of changes within our service a post has arisen for a full time Clinical Psychologist at NHS equivalent Band 7 (progression to Band 8a equivalent after a year of development, or appointment at 8a for applicants already past this milestone) to work across the Acquired Brain Injury Pathway. Our patients are adults presenting with behaviour that challenges, cognitive impairment, and/or forensic risk. The successful applicant will be joining a well-established Psychology Department which offers professional support and a wide range of expertise, and includes a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical and Clinical Forensic Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and Psychology Doctoral Trainees, Masters, and Undergraduate Students and Volunteers.

Psychology is highly valued within the Neuropsychiatry Division and is embedded within a multi-disciplinary, one team approach. You will be joining colleagues from Nursing, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics and Social Work. We are seeking keen team players who adopt a person-centred approach to care, and a recovery focus towards rehabilitation and aiming to optimise each individual persons progress through treatment.

We will provide training and supervision You will be able to access excellent opportunities for continuing professional development including engagement with our Academic Centre and research teams; attendance at our weekly CPD events that are delivered by a range of internal and external experts in their field; and you will join a large network of experienced clinicians working across our inpatient and community services.

RewardThe post attracts a competitive salary, a sickness policy on a par with the NHS, 41 days annual leave including Bank Holidays, car lease scheme, free parking, cycle to work scheme, ongoing CPDand much more.

To discuss this opportunity

Please contact Dr Keith G Jenkins, Lead Psychologist & Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at kjenkins@stah.org or call 01604 616459

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC Registered

Desirable

• Experience of, or a strong interest in, working with people with acquired brain injury.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)