Job summary
Are you an experiencedClinical Psychologist or Clinical Neuropsychologist interested in working in neurorehabilitation settings? Do you enjoy working within skilled and enthusiastic interdisciplinary teams who value clinical psychology and hold the wellbeing of their clients at the centre of their rehabilitation?
Come and work with us at the Royal Free Neurological Centre in Edgware, North London. The Neurological Rehabilitation Centre includes a 14-bedded level 2 neurorehabilitation unit serving North Central London as well as the Community Neurological Conditions Management Team (CNCMT), an MDT supporting adults in Barnet with long term neurological conditions. Neuropsychology is an integrated and highly valued part of the interdisciplinary team across the service
Due to exciting new investment in our services, we have redesigned this senior post to combine clinical work on our inpatient unit with leadership and clinical supervision responsibilities for junior colleagues in our community team. As such, there are opportunities for working across settings with people with a wide range of neurological conditions, including both acquired and progressive conditions, as well as to build or stretch your leadership and service development skills.
Main duties of the job
Direct clinical work includes assessment, rehabilitation and therapy with individuals, families and wider social networks, drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches guided by client needs. There are opportunities to deliver group interventions to support recovery, adjustment and coping following a neurological injury or diagnosis.
Consultation and guidance to the wider team and networks around the person affected is an integral part of the role, as is close joint working in support of patients' goals. You will included into input to service development, teaching and training sessions. No two days are the same!
You will also be joining an expanding neuropsychology team based in the Neurosciences Directorate of the Royal Free London NHS Hospitals Trust. Our ethos is for every member of the team to grow as a clinician, a leader and to be supported to maintain their wellbeing in life and work. We meet regularly for journal clubs, complex case discussions and teaching and welcome colleagues bringing their own areas of specialist interest or skills into our team.
Clinical supervision is provided by an experienced Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, and part-funding and supervision is available for colleagues wishing to pursue the Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN). We have close links with the North Thames DClinPsy training courses and encourage colleagues to participate in developing future clinical neuropsychologists by offering placements and mentorship.
About us
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. You will be embedded within your MDT and the neuropsychology department and simultaneously also belong to a group of over 40 Psychological Therapies, Neuropsychology & Counselling (PTNC) colleagues who work within a variety of medical specialties across the Trust (including Cancer & Palliative Care, Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes, HIV, ICU, Immunology and Rare Disease, Nephrology and Liver Transplantation, Neurology, Pain, Plastic Surgery, Respiratory, and Women's Health). Priorities for the PTNC leads are ensuring each clinician has the support necessary for their role, including access to varied specialist supervision, line management and professional development. They actively work to create a PTNC community that encourages dialogue, learning from each other and mutual support, and showcasing good practice, innovation, and research.
We welcome new staff who share our values of working together and supporting each other to join us in the PTNC community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We welcome informal conversations and/or visits to the NRC from any interested applicant.
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
This includes :
- Clinical responsibilities and responsibility for patients
- Responsibility for leading and managing
- Responsibility for policy and service development
- Responsibility for research and development
Job description
Job responsibilities
We welcome informal conversations and/or visits to the NRC from any interested applicant.
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
This includes :
- Clinical responsibilities and responsibility for patients
- Responsibility for leading and managing
- Responsibility for policy and service development
- Responsibility for research and development
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society.
- Valid professional registration with Health Care Professions Council.
- Post-doctoral experience in neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation.
- Enrolled on a course of study and supervision leading to eligibility for the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN)
Desirable
- Entered (or eligible to be) on the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in the use and interpretation of psychometric neuropsychological tests
- Substantial experience of working with adult and older adult patients with acquired and progressive neurological conditions with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working across a range of settings including community, out-patient and in-patient
- Experience of working with people with challenging behaviour
- Experience of teaching and training other psychologists and MDT colleagues
- Experience in the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of conducting complex assessments with interpreters
- Experience of supervising and line managing others
Desirable
- Experience of working within an inpatient neurorehabilitation setting
- Experience of working with other agencies on clinical care, including statutory and voluntary sector organisations
- Experience of working with other agencies on service or organisational delivery across providers, including statutory and voluntary sector organisations
Knowledge
Essential
- Well developed knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and neuropsychological tests and assessment procedures
- Well-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group, and NHS.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Professions Council.
Motivation
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work constructively under pressure
- Positive attitude to this work
- Demonstrable commitment to multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency work
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society.
- Valid professional registration with Health Care Professions Council.
- Post-doctoral experience in neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation.
- Enrolled on a course of study and supervision leading to eligibility for the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN)
Desirable
- Entered (or eligible to be) on the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in the use and interpretation of psychometric neuropsychological tests
- Substantial experience of working with adult and older adult patients with acquired and progressive neurological conditions with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working across a range of settings including community, out-patient and in-patient
- Experience of working with people with challenging behaviour
- Experience of teaching and training other psychologists and MDT colleagues
- Experience in the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of conducting complex assessments with interpreters
- Experience of supervising and line managing others
Desirable
- Experience of working within an inpatient neurorehabilitation setting
- Experience of working with other agencies on clinical care, including statutory and voluntary sector organisations
- Experience of working with other agencies on service or organisational delivery across providers, including statutory and voluntary sector organisations
Knowledge
Essential
- Well developed knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and neuropsychological tests and assessment procedures
- Well-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group, and NHS.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Professions Council.
Motivation
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work constructively under pressure
- Positive attitude to this work
- Demonstrable commitment to multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency work
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).
