Job summary
The Disabilities Trust is looking for a Principal Clinical Neuro/Psychologist who wants to develop their experience by working in our highly regarded service at West Heath House. West Heath House works with people who have to cope with a range of cognitive, physical and / or emotional symptoms following a severe brain injury.
Rehabilitation is based on a neurobehavioral approach and focuses on enabling service users to function more independently and to participate in as many of their previous roles and activities as possible, while developing their lives with privacy, dignity and respect.
You will provide strategic, professional leadership to the multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team, which includes Assistant Psychologists, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the development of high quality, innovative, and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice within BIRT. To support the Service Manager/Registered Manager/Regional Manager in all aspects of managing the service. To function as a member of the Clinical Executive of consultant clinicians within the Disabilities Trust.
To provide strategic, professional
leadership to the multi/inter disciplinary team within the Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Trust, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic
response to service need.
To interpret professional policies, ensuring that the
services operate at the highest level of quality and current best practice.
Research and development will be a major responsibility as will taking a major
role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as
a whole.
To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting
and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological
clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional
guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other
clinicians within BIRT.
To provide clinical leadership and direction for the
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust service across a designated service,
including the clinical leadership of the multi/inter disciplinary team and
support worker staff within designated service and other related BIRT services
in the region.
About us
The Disabilities Trust is a leading UK charity that works alongside people with an acquired brain injury, autism, and learning or physical disabilities to help them live as independently as possible. Our teams across the UK support people to move forward with their lives. Its a special feeling to share their individual journeys and play a part in the progress they make. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do youll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
- A salary of £56,164 - £65,262 DOE Experience
- 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- QiCN Sponsorship
- Excellent training and support
- Group life assurance
- Eye voucher scheme
- Long service and staff awards
- Free parking
- Nationwide employee staff discounts including discounted gym membership, eating out and shopping
- Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store
All clinical roles have CPD opportunities and we may support further professional development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To externally represent and promote the Trusts approach to psychology. To work with the service and regional managers to strategically promote appropriate referrals to the service, with development of clinical governance in line with Trust policies and directives.
To provide a high level of expertise for specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to (insert service location) and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To complete preadmission assessments, developing highly specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individuals rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals.
To be competent to support the development of neurobehavioural rehabilitation within the Service, supported by the clinical director and clinical leadership team.
To coordinate Service Users care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/ clinical lead.
To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. You will take the lead in very complex cases, over see the care plans and neurobehavioural rehabilitation guidelines, providing support to other psychologists and the rest of the multi/inter disciplinary team.
To lead on supporting the multi/inter disciplinary team in developing personal goals with service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team.
To support the multi/inter disciplinary team in the process of developing person centred, holistic goals based around personal values and social participation.
To be responsible for providing a highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families particularly for complex cases. You will contribute highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff, particularly in complex cases.
To understand and communicate the BIRT whole team, holistic, neurobehavioural approach, to the clinical team, rehabilitation support workers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To externally represent and promote the Trusts approach to psychology. To work with the service and regional managers to strategically promote appropriate referrals to the service, with development of clinical governance in line with Trust policies and directives.
To provide a high level of expertise for specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to (insert service location) and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To complete preadmission assessments, developing highly specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individuals rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals.
To be competent to support the development of neurobehavioural rehabilitation within the Service, supported by the clinical director and clinical leadership team.
To coordinate Service Users care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/ clinical lead.
To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. You will take the lead in very complex cases, over see the care plans and neurobehavioural rehabilitation guidelines, providing support to other psychologists and the rest of the multi/inter disciplinary team.
To lead on supporting the multi/inter disciplinary team in developing personal goals with service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team.
To support the multi/inter disciplinary team in the process of developing person centred, holistic goals based around personal values and social participation.
To be responsible for providing a highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families particularly for complex cases. You will contribute highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff, particularly in complex cases.
To understand and communicate the BIRT whole team, holistic, neurobehavioural approach, to the clinical team, rehabilitation support workers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good honours degree in Psychology i.e. 2:2 or above.
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS and to meet registration with HCPC.
- Registered Clinical Psychologist with HCPC.
- Member of the BPS.
- Post Graduate training in Neuropsychology through an accredited route for the QiCN (e.g. PG Dip).
Desirable
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology. Member of the Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists.
- Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.
- Post graduate training in psychological therapy models.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including substantial experience as a highly specialist/ senior clinical psychologist within a neuropsychology setting.
- Significant, evidenced experience of Brain Injury Rehabilitation, including clinical responsibility for challenging behaviour cases.
- Substantial experience and skills in managing qualified clinical psychologists and other clinical staff.
Desirable
- 1+ Years of BIRT clinical experience, and therefore knowledge of the practice and team skills required to effectively deliver the Neurobehavioral approach. Or experience of delivering a neurobehavioural approach within a similar setting.
- Significant experience supervising Assistant Psychologists, A Grade Clinical Psychologists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good honours degree in Psychology i.e. 2:2 or above.
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS and to meet registration with HCPC.
- Registered Clinical Psychologist with HCPC.
- Member of the BPS.
- Post Graduate training in Neuropsychology through an accredited route for the QiCN (e.g. PG Dip).
Desirable
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology. Member of the Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists.
- Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.
- Post graduate training in psychological therapy models.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including substantial experience as a highly specialist/ senior clinical psychologist within a neuropsychology setting.
- Significant, evidenced experience of Brain Injury Rehabilitation, including clinical responsibility for challenging behaviour cases.
- Substantial experience and skills in managing qualified clinical psychologists and other clinical staff.
Desirable
- 1+ Years of BIRT clinical experience, and therefore knowledge of the practice and team skills required to effectively deliver the Neurobehavioral approach. Or experience of delivering a neurobehavioural approach within a similar setting.
- Significant experience supervising Assistant Psychologists, A Grade Clinical Psychologists.
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).
