Clinical Neuropsychologist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Neuropsychologist to join a large, dynamic Neuropsychology service.The neuropsychology service provides neurorehabilitation to adults with neuropsychological difficulties following acquired brain injuries such as TBI, stroke, anoxia or infections across the neurorehabilitation pathway.

In the role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Solent Neuropsychology (West) service which includes providing leadership and supervision to the other clinical psychologists in the team and ensuring that the Neuropsychology service runs effectively and efficiently. You will be fully responsible for your own clinical case load as well as overseeing the clinical work of other clinical psychologists within the team and managing the triage and allocation of referrals into the service.

This is a great opportunity to show your sound decision making about service development and implementing change within the service.

We will provide supervision from the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and regular departmental CPD.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist neuropsychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical & therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

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Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

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