We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, caring and skilled psychologist to fill a new full time position within the Lewisham Stroke Team.

To provide a specialist clinical neuropsychology service for the Stroke service within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. To work autonomously within professional guidelines. To provide a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community, teaching and to undertake research activities. To provide advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients to non-psychologist colleagues, to support and embed skills-development of psychologically informed ways of working and the use of self-management approaches across the team. To carry out audit policy, propose and implement service development changes within the department.

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist clinical neuropsychology service for the Stroke service within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. To work autonomously within professional guidelines. To provide a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community, teaching and to undertake research activities. To provide advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients to non-psychologist colleagues, to support and embed skills-development of psychologically informed ways of working and the use of self-management approaches across the team. To carry out audit policy, propose and implement service development changes within the department.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development

Widening access (anchor institution) and employability

Improving the experience of staff with disability

Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Provision of highly developed specialist clinical neuropsychological assessments of inpatients and outpatients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.

2. Integration of neuropsychological data, behavioural observation and specialist neurology medical knowledge to make highly skilled evaluations in the formulation of clinical neuropsychological diagnosis of patients problems within evidence based neuropsychological conceptual framework.

3. Provision of clinical neuropsychological diagnosis, where formulation of diagnosis to be used as part of treatment management decisions.

4. Provision of specialist neuropsychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (Stroke Consultants, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, nurses, etc.) patients and their carers, contributing directly to patients diagnosis and treatment management.

5. To provide expertise and advice to all members of the Stroke MDT to facilitate the effective and appropriate treatment of patients in the context of the neuropsychological status of the patient.

6. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the neuropsychological assessment, formulation of neuropsychological diagnosis and its impact on the patients daily life including issues of fitness to work and fitness to drive, to patients, their carers, medical consultant and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

7. To provide consultation on neuropsychological aspects of patients management to staff and agencies inside and outside of the Stroke Unit at LGT.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• completion of models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC registration

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient, and assessment and intervention with patients with a wide variety of neurological deficits.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Other

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Knowledge

Essential

• 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 clients, 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 complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of the evidence base, management and treatment models for early intervention psychosis
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HPC and BPS.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

University Hospital Lewisham

Lewisham High Street

London

SE13 6LH

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