Job summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Clinical Neuropsychologist (Band 8a) to join a multidisciplinary team within the stroke rehabilitation services in the London Borough of Barnet. The successful candidate will provide specialized psychological services to individuals living with stroke and other long-term health conditions, helping them manage the complex physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges that arise following a stroke.
Key responsibilities include conductingneuropsychological assessments and providing therapeutic interventions for patients within the Edgware Community Rehabilitation Unit and community stroke services (including Early Stroke Discharge Team & Barnet Stroke Support Service). The post holder will support patients with a range of complex needs--physical, psychological, cognitive, and social--ensuring their care is holistic and tailored to enhance their recovery and long-term wellbeing.
You will take the lead in deliveringcommunity-based psychological and neuropsychological interventions, including assessment, formulation, therapy, and discharge planning. You will collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to integrate psychological care within broader treatment plans, helping promote health, independence, and optimal recovery outcomes for stroke patients.
Additionally, you will provide consultation, advice, and supervision to other professionals in the team, enhancing the psychological care approach within the wider service.
Main duties of the job
- Work as part of the integrated team for Barnet Inpatients and Stroke Services (Early Stroke Discharge team, Barnet Stroke Support Service, Edgware Community Rehabilitation Unit)
- Work independently and autonomously as a professional within the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) guidelines and local Trust policies
- To select and administer specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management, and provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultations to patients, their families and carers, and other multidisciplinary professionals contributing directly to clients' formulations, diagnosis, treatment plan, management and care.
- To formulate and deliver evidence-based psychological treatments within the service
- To maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation, ensure documents are updated to reflect changes in clinical needs in-line with trust policy, and to adhere to the HSPC code of conduct for Psychologists and the principles of professional practice
- To motivate/ negotiate with patients to change their lifestyle/ behaviour using psychological knowledge of behaviour change, together with the application of specialist clinical skills in engagement and motivation
The role will involve significant patient-facing work, with at least 80% of your time dedicated to direct clinical care
About us
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Collaborate and Communicate: Use various communication methods (face-to-face, video, email, phone) to coordinate patient care, share information, and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, service users, and MDTs across trusts. Attend and contribute to team meetings and service MDT discussions.
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Service Development and Consultation: Produce annual reports and audits on psychological services, offering recommendations for practice development. Provide expert advice and consultation, contributing to a psychologically informed framework of care across all settings and services, and take responsibility for coordinating care plans for patients accessing multiple services.
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Supervision, Training, and Research: Manage workloads of assistant and trainee psychologists, support volunteer involvement, and deliver psycho-educational training to staff, patients, and carers. Engage in CPD, research, and quality improvement projects, ensuring ongoing professional development in clinical neuropsychology.
AI Application Submission
Use of AI While AI tools can be beneficial, we value the personal touch and authenticity in job applications. We encourage you to highlight your unique experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, ensuring all information is accurate. Please use AI tools responsibly and with integrity throughout the application and selection process
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trusts values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'
Please refer to the job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Collaborate and Communicate: Use various communication methods (face-to-face, video, email, phone) to coordinate patient care, share information, and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, service users, and MDTs across trusts. Attend and contribute to team meetings and service MDT discussions.
-
Service Development and Consultation: Produce annual reports and audits on psychological services, offering recommendations for practice development. Provide expert advice and consultation, contributing to a psychologically informed framework of care across all settings and services, and take responsibility for coordinating care plans for patients accessing multiple services.
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Supervision, Training, and Research: Manage workloads of assistant and trainee psychologists, support volunteer involvement, and deliver psycho-educational training to staff, patients, and carers. Engage in CPD, research, and quality improvement projects, ensuring ongoing professional development in clinical neuropsychology.
AI Application Submission
Use of AI While AI tools can be beneficial, we value the personal touch and authenticity in job applications. We encourage you to highlight your unique experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, ensuring all information is accurate. Please use AI tools responsibly and with integrity throughout the application and selection process
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trusts values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'
Please refer to the job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- MSc/Doctoral level training, or equivalent, in Clinical Psychology as recognized by the British Psychological Society and / or the Psychological Society of Ireland (and is eligible for statement of equivalence) and be eligible for Chartered Status
- Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society (HCPC/ BPS) or eligible for registration
Desirable
- Post-doctoral post-qualifications, or pre-qualification training in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Treatment of patients across the range of care settings (community, primary care, outpatient and inpatients).
- Delivering specialist psychological assessment and treatment to adults with physical health problems, with a range of complexities (long term conditions) and psychological needs
- Providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- Working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Conducting clinically relevant research and audit.
- Demonstration of ability to develop new initiatives.
- Demonstration of ability to manage change.
- Multi-disciplinary team working experience
- Experience in audit and/or research methods
Desirable
- Experience maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Clinical experience with the patient group or a related patient group (e.g., neurological conditions affecting the brain and neurorehabilitation)
- Track record of research publications
- Delivering structured psycho-educational group sessions to patients and / or caregivers.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and formulation of problems and intervention/ management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge of cognitive behavioral therapy and at least one other model of psychological therapy appropriate to adults, and needs of patients with stroke and long-term conditions. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the holistic needs of the client group range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Excellent documentation skills
- Ability to work as an independent practitioner with an appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- Ability to motivate self and others, to develop and maintain team working.
- Well-developed IT skills including using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
- Awareness of diversity and inequality issues affecting access to healthcare services
- A working knowledge of clinical governance and evidence-based practice to demonstrate specialist clinical expertise.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
- Knowledge of theory and practice of specialized neuropsychological assessment and intervention in people with acquired and degenerative neurological conditions
Key Attributes
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Commitment to life-long learning. Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
- Ability to work on own initiative with good time-management skills, punctual and reliable
- Ability to engage effectively with the patient group and their caregivers
- Ability to work effectively within a large multi-disciplinary team, to form good working relationships with others. Experienced in oral presentations, working with people in groups
Desirable
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
- Consideration will be given to alternative traveling proposals in respect of applicants with a disability who cannot hold a licens
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- MSc/Doctoral level training, or equivalent, in Clinical Psychology as recognized by the British Psychological Society and / or the Psychological Society of Ireland (and is eligible for statement of equivalence) and be eligible for Chartered Status
- Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society (HCPC/ BPS) or eligible for registration
Desirable
- Post-doctoral post-qualifications, or pre-qualification training in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Treatment of patients across the range of care settings (community, primary care, outpatient and inpatients).
- Delivering specialist psychological assessment and treatment to adults with physical health problems, with a range of complexities (long term conditions) and psychological needs
- Providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- Working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Conducting clinically relevant research and audit.
- Demonstration of ability to develop new initiatives.
- Demonstration of ability to manage change.
- Multi-disciplinary team working experience
- Experience in audit and/or research methods
Desirable
- Experience maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Clinical experience with the patient group or a related patient group (e.g., neurological conditions affecting the brain and neurorehabilitation)
- Track record of research publications
- Delivering structured psycho-educational group sessions to patients and / or caregivers.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and formulation of problems and intervention/ management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge of cognitive behavioral therapy and at least one other model of psychological therapy appropriate to adults, and needs of patients with stroke and long-term conditions. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the holistic needs of the client group range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Excellent documentation skills
- Ability to work as an independent practitioner with an appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- Ability to motivate self and others, to develop and maintain team working.
- Well-developed IT skills including using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
- Awareness of diversity and inequality issues affecting access to healthcare services
- A working knowledge of clinical governance and evidence-based practice to demonstrate specialist clinical expertise.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
- Knowledge of theory and practice of specialized neuropsychological assessment and intervention in people with acquired and degenerative neurological conditions
Key Attributes
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Commitment to life-long learning. Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
- Ability to work on own initiative with good time-management skills, punctual and reliable
- Ability to engage effectively with the patient group and their caregivers
- Ability to work effectively within a large multi-disciplinary team, to form good working relationships with others. Experienced in oral presentations, working with people in groups
Desirable
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
- Consideration will be given to alternative traveling proposals in respect of applicants with a disability who cannot hold a licens
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
