Job summary
This is an opportunity for a to join our growing Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) team providing a specialist Clinical Neuropsychology service. The post-holder will work with people who have been affected by brain injury or illness undertaking cognitive assessment, helping people to manage their symptoms, and provide some neurobehavioural rehabilitation. This is alongside utilising indirect work including consultation, supervision and training to other healthcare professionals such as older adults and stroke wards. There will be opportunities to contribute to service development. Supervision and CPD will be supported.
We are keen to hear from Psychologists with a specialist interest in Clinical Neuropsychology. We will consider applications from newly qualified individuals who may wish to complete the Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN) as a preceptorship, and those with QiCN and/or working toward joining the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and looking to enhance their skills and range of experiences. Banding will be based on experience and level of training.
This is a band 8a role, however we are able to offer a developmental opportunity to start as band 7, moving to band 8a upon completion of required competencies and training.
Main duties of the job
- To enhance psychologically informed care through the direct delivery of specialist clinical neuropsychological assessment to adults with physical health difficulties and potentially their carers/families. And indirectly through providing interventions such as teaching, training and consultation with teams and non-psychologically trained practitioners
- The service will be provided between the main CHP base in Torquay as well as some home working
- To work autonomously, within the Trust's and the HCPC's and the BPS's professional guidelines, as well as liaise and work closely with colleagues and other staff who work internal and external to the Trust
About us
We are a progressive service and are passionate about the uniqueness of Clinical Health Psychology. We have a mix of Psychological professions in the team and welcome individuals who are keen to embrace the challenges and strengths that this brings to our working and professional identity.
We pride ourselves on our flexibility of working practices and our family first approach to working which allow people to work hard while maintaining healthy boundaries. We have introduced agile working which involves a combination of remote and physical face-to-face interactions. We are committed to supporting our teams and colleagues in adopting this approach.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
- Maintain effective communication in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, and build effective working relationships with a range of health and social care staff across all levels, both within and outside of the organisation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that any correspondence is of a high standard
- Provide excellent, professional communication and customer service when representing our service
- To liaise and work collaboratively with colleagues within the department. To be respectful and value the people you work with
- To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious condition specific information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients, where there may be barriers to acceptance and within highly emotive environments
- To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers to ensure co-ordination of work in the Clinical Health Psychology service
Planning and organisation
- Under guidance from supervisor or line manager be able to plan and organise daily workload
- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to meet an ever-changing workload
- Be responsive to change and able to work in an environment which has constant interruptions
- Help to plan and organise any teaching/training, seminars, workshops under the direction of service lead
Analytical and judgement
- To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care
- To make skilled and complex assessments, formulations and decisions about diagnosis and treatment options considering a range of options which draw on both theoretical and therapeutic models
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
- To provide clinical consultation to other health and social care staff and foster reflective practice in teams
Responsibility and accountability
- Act with integrity and professionalism, ensuring that you are demonstrating responsible behaviours at all times, in accordance with our Trust values
- To be accountable for own professional actions and to fully observe the BPS (2009) Code of Conduct and the DCP Generic Professional Practice Guidelines (2008). To reflect and learn from our mistakes
- Be responsible for your dedicated workload
- To make highly skilled assessments and decisions about diagnosis and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models
- To formulate and implement plans for the psychological assessment and management of a clients health problem, employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Psychological interventions may be for individuals, carers, families and groups
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
- To provide psychological consultation and advice to staff working with this client group within health, education and social services, both at a policy and individual client level
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
- Ensure that all work is of a high standard and meets regulatory compliance
- To observe the requirements of government legislation, local and national policies and associated initiatives
Responsibility for patients and client care
- To make highly skilled assessments, formulations and decisions about diagnosis and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
Policy and service responsibility
- To participate in developments within the services, the wider organisation and community to facilitate the appropriate provision of services
- To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit
- All staff have a responsibility to ensure that the needs of the service are met in a timely and efficient manner
- Encourage and welcome feedback to ensure that we as individuals, and as a collective team, learn and continually improve
Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources
- Everyone has a responsibility to ensure effective and conservative use of resources
- Maintain paperless filing wherever possible (excluding where any statutory duty may exist). Do not print/ photocopy unless necessary
- Ensure conservative use of stationery, not using equipment to excess
- Ensure that any stationery or resource needs are reported to the appropriate person for future orders
Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management
- Where applicable and qualified to do so to supervise the work of less experienced members of the Clinical Health Psychology team, e.g., to assist in assessing and evaluating trainees skills and competences
- To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychological care
- To receive supervision from an experienced Clinician in the Clinical Health Psychology Team
- To provide teaching to the local Clinical Psychology/ IAPT training courses as appropriate
- Work flexibly to ensure the department collectively achieves its goals
- Work with colleagues, seeking or offering support as required
- To develop leadership skills through the organisation training
Information technology and administrative duties
- To ensure information governance is adhered to in all aspects of your work
- To ensure you are adhering to GDPR regulations/Data Protection Act 2018
- To be proficient in use of trust IT systems
- To keep up to date with patient related admin (e.g. patient records and letters) and be able to co-ordinate and communicate well with the admin team
Responsibility for research and development
- To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit
Full vacancy details can be found on the attached job description/person specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
- Maintain effective communication in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, and build effective working relationships with a range of health and social care staff across all levels, both within and outside of the organisation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that any correspondence is of a high standard
- Provide excellent, professional communication and customer service when representing our service
- To liaise and work collaboratively with colleagues within the department. To be respectful and value the people you work with
- To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious condition specific information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients, where there may be barriers to acceptance and within highly emotive environments
- To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers to ensure co-ordination of work in the Clinical Health Psychology service
Planning and organisation
- Under guidance from supervisor or line manager be able to plan and organise daily workload
- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to meet an ever-changing workload
- Be responsive to change and able to work in an environment which has constant interruptions
- Help to plan and organise any teaching/training, seminars, workshops under the direction of service lead
Analytical and judgement
- To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care
- To make skilled and complex assessments, formulations and decisions about diagnosis and treatment options considering a range of options which draw on both theoretical and therapeutic models
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
- To provide clinical consultation to other health and social care staff and foster reflective practice in teams
Responsibility and accountability
- Act with integrity and professionalism, ensuring that you are demonstrating responsible behaviours at all times, in accordance with our Trust values
- To be accountable for own professional actions and to fully observe the BPS (2009) Code of Conduct and the DCP Generic Professional Practice Guidelines (2008). To reflect and learn from our mistakes
- Be responsible for your dedicated workload
- To make highly skilled assessments and decisions about diagnosis and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models
- To formulate and implement plans for the psychological assessment and management of a clients health problem, employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Psychological interventions may be for individuals, carers, families and groups
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
- To provide psychological consultation and advice to staff working with this client group within health, education and social services, both at a policy and individual client level
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
- Ensure that all work is of a high standard and meets regulatory compliance
- To observe the requirements of government legislation, local and national policies and associated initiatives
Responsibility for patients and client care
- To make highly skilled assessments, formulations and decisions about diagnosis and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
Policy and service responsibility
- To participate in developments within the services, the wider organisation and community to facilitate the appropriate provision of services
- To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit
- All staff have a responsibility to ensure that the needs of the service are met in a timely and efficient manner
- Encourage and welcome feedback to ensure that we as individuals, and as a collective team, learn and continually improve
Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources
- Everyone has a responsibility to ensure effective and conservative use of resources
- Maintain paperless filing wherever possible (excluding where any statutory duty may exist). Do not print/ photocopy unless necessary
- Ensure conservative use of stationery, not using equipment to excess
- Ensure that any stationery or resource needs are reported to the appropriate person for future orders
Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management
- Where applicable and qualified to do so to supervise the work of less experienced members of the Clinical Health Psychology team, e.g., to assist in assessing and evaluating trainees skills and competences
- To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychological care
- To receive supervision from an experienced Clinician in the Clinical Health Psychology Team
- To provide teaching to the local Clinical Psychology/ IAPT training courses as appropriate
- Work flexibly to ensure the department collectively achieves its goals
- Work with colleagues, seeking or offering support as required
- To develop leadership skills through the organisation training
Information technology and administrative duties
- To ensure information governance is adhered to in all aspects of your work
- To ensure you are adhering to GDPR regulations/Data Protection Act 2018
- To be proficient in use of trust IT systems
- To keep up to date with patient related admin (e.g. patient records and letters) and be able to co-ordinate and communicate well with the admin team
Responsibility for research and development
- To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit
Full vacancy details can be found on the attached job description/person specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements and person specification.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Have required experience
- Clinical Neuropsychology specialist interest
- Experience of neuropsychological testing
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level
- Additional specialist training in assessment and intervention with people with physical health conditions
- Accredited supervisor training
- Experience of working within an acute hospital setting.
- Post qualification experience of using a range of specialist psychology assessment skills which include risk assessment
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Have required experience
- Clinical Neuropsychology specialist interest
- Experience of neuropsychological testing
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level
- Additional specialist training in assessment and intervention with people with physical health conditions
- Accredited supervisor training
- Experience of working within an acute hospital setting.
- Post qualification experience of using a range of specialist psychology assessment skills which include risk assessment
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology
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).
