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**Relocation Expenses available**

Relocation package available of up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility criteria).   £1000 Golden Hello Recruitment Incentive also available (T&Cs apply)

To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to people affected by neurological conditions, with some opportunities for working with those affected by other health conditions. 

To manage and hold clinical responsibility for a specialist caseload and provide highly specialist assessment and interventions focusing on identifying and treating psychological issues associated with these health challenges. 

To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training as appropriate to service-users, their significant others and colleagues within the organisation, and to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

 To contribute to service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.  

While this role is being advertised at Band 8a, our team would also consider offering a preceptorship (from Band 7 to 8a) for a more newly qualified clinician who wants to develop their knowledge and skills within the field of neuropsychology – and the competencies outlined in this job description reflect this.  This would be a developmental role, with support in place from the wider Health Psychology and associated multi-disciplinary teams, to work towards the higher-level competencies expected from the 8a role.  

Main duties of the job

• Develop and deliver timely evidenced-based psychological interventions to service-users recently diagnosed with a stroke, and their families, as part of the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) stroke service. This will involve developing effective working relationships and close liaison with the acute stroke unit and community stroke service.
• Work as part of an established multidisciplinary team within the Health Psychology Service to contribute to the delivery of a county-wide psychology service for patients with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and stroke. There will also be some opportunities to also offer input into other physical health conditions pathways.
• Play a key role in ensuring the systematic and equitable provision of high quality psychological assessment and interventions.  This will involve providing specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation, treatment and rehabilitation.
• Offer advice, training and consultation on service-users’ psychological care to colleagues and other professionals, working under clinical supervision within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• Work autonomously across a variety of settings, such as: inpatient stroke unit, community stroke service, social services, primary and secondary mental health services.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.