Job summary
This is an exciting job opportunity for Clinical Psychologists interested in expanding their experience in inpatient neuro-rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation.
This is a split post role working across inpatient and community neuro-rehabilitation. Part of the role involves providing specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention to a level 3 neuro-rehabilitation ward based at Clayponds Hospital. The other part of the role will involve working with the Enable Neuro Community Rehabilitation Service to deliver vocational assessment and rehabilitation to patients living with acquired brain injury and long-term neurological conditions in Ealing.
We are a Clinical Health and Neuropsychology service based within Ealing Community Partners (ECP), which is a group of NHS, council and voluntary organisations working together to transform community health and care services within Ealing. We are part of a broader clinical neuropsychology and health network in West London NHS Trust, with over 20 neuropsychologists and health psychologists working across North West London. We meet regularly with the wider network which offers excellent opportunities for peer support and continued professional development. We are also able to offer specialist supervision and support to psychologists who would like to pursue training for entry on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychology.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone with experience of neuropsychological rehabilitation and/or neuropsychological assessment and intervention with patients with neurological conditions. The post would particularly suit someone who enjoys working with varied client groups, teamwork, providing consultation and teaching to other health professionals, and contributing to service development.
This is a split post role working across inpatient and community neuro-rehabilitation. Part of the role involves providing specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention to a level 3 neuro-rehabilitation ward based at Clayponds Hospital. The other part of the role will involve working with the Enable Neuro Community Rehabilitation Service to deliver vocational assessment and rehabilitation to patients living with acquired brain injury and long-term neurological conditions in Ealing.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental and physical health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We arerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing a highly specialised clinical neuropsychology service to a level 3 Neuro-Rehabilitation inpatient ward, based at Clayponds hospital.
- Working as part of an interdisciplinary neuro rehabilitation team consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists.
- Providing neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation for patients with neurological disorders as well as providing support for their families and carers.
- This will include cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapy to help with emotional adjustment and engagement in rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, teaching and consultation.
- The post holder will also contribute to our community neuropsychology provision to patients living with acquired brain injury and long-term neurological conditions living in Ealing.
- This will focus on providing vocational assessment and rehabilitation
- This is likely to include both outpatient based assessment/treatment, and provision of consultation/training/supervision.
- The post holder will be expected to visit patients in their own homes, work places, community clinics, and any other settings in which the service is appropriately provided.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing a highly specialised clinical neuropsychology service to a level 3 Neuro-Rehabilitation inpatient ward, based at Clayponds hospital.
- Working as part of an interdisciplinary neuro rehabilitation team consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists.
- Providing neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation for patients with neurological disorders as well as providing support for their families and carers.
- This will include cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapy to help with emotional adjustment and engagement in rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, teaching and consultation.
- The post holder will also contribute to our community neuropsychology provision to patients living with acquired brain injury and long-term neurological conditions living in Ealing.
- This will focus on providing vocational assessment and rehabilitation
- This is likely to include both outpatient based assessment/treatment, and provision of consultation/training/supervision.
- The post holder will be expected to visit patients in their own homes, work places, community clinics, and any other settings in which the service is appropriately provided.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATION
Essential
- Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society.
- Current registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Care and Professions Council
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/ or other health professionals.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology assessment, intervention and outcome measures with patients with neurological conditions.
- Experience of working at a specialist/highly specialist clinical psychologist level in neurological rehabilitation setting
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of health care professionals and/or assistant/trainee psychologists
- Experience of working within and actively participating in a team environment and contributing a psychological perspective within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Experience of taking a leadership role in service development
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of recent government policy and legislation relevant to neuropsychological rehabilitation (e.g. NSF for Long Term Conditions, NICE Guidelines for Stroke)
- Highly specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for patients with neurological problems and neuropsychological rehabilitation
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Effective leadership skills and commitment to team working
- Flexible and autonomous approach to clinical work.
- Ability to interact effectively with other team members and other health professionals.
- Ability to recognise cultural differences and needs of people from different cultures
- Personable, friendly and active team member, showing a willingness to adapt to a changing environment
Desirable
- Professional publications in peer reviewed academic journals and/or books.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATION
Essential
- Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society.
- Current registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Care and Professions Council
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/ or other health professionals.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology assessment, intervention and outcome measures with patients with neurological conditions.
- Experience of working at a specialist/highly specialist clinical psychologist level in neurological rehabilitation setting
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of health care professionals and/or assistant/trainee psychologists
- Experience of working within and actively participating in a team environment and contributing a psychological perspective within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Experience of taking a leadership role in service development
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of recent government policy and legislation relevant to neuropsychological rehabilitation (e.g. NSF for Long Term Conditions, NICE Guidelines for Stroke)
- Highly specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for patients with neurological problems and neuropsychological rehabilitation
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Effective leadership skills and commitment to team working
- Flexible and autonomous approach to clinical work.
- Ability to interact effectively with other team members and other health professionals.
- Ability to recognise cultural differences and needs of people from different cultures
- Personable, friendly and active team member, showing a willingness to adapt to a changing environment
Desirable
- Professional publications in peer reviewed academic journals and/or books.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
