Job summary
- Main area
- Neuropsychology. Neurological rehabilitation.
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (October 2025 - June 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 812-25-OB-CP-6
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital
- Town
- Welwyn
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist ESD team
Band 7
Job overview
Due to one of our psychologists going on maternity leave, we are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and dynamic Clinical Psychologist with an interest in neuropsychology to join our friendly multi-disciplinary Early Supported Discharge (ESD) community rehabilitation team, working with people who sustained stroke or a functional neurological diagnosis.
The successful applicant will join the senior Clinical Neuropsychologist in providing high quality neuropsychological assessment, psychological interventions and consultancy to the neuro-rehabilitation service. As a valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, there will also be opportunities for indirect working, in the provision of support for families and group based interventions.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a team of clinical psychologists & neuropsychologists embedded within multi-disciplinary teams across the county of Hertfordshire. There are clear structures in place to support your CPD and to provide support and supervision. We have well established links with the University of Hertfordshire and provide regular placements for clinical psychologists across all years of training.
As this role involves community visits and meetings at other service bases, it is essential that you have access to a car for work purposes and can travel around the county as required (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Working for our organisation
A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages
We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now
You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description.
We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or overseas) as recognised by the British Psychological Society
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist (or eligibility for registration)
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within an inpatient or community neuro-rehabilitation setting
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of relevant theoretical models and psychological interventions relevant to the needs of patients with stroke
- 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 a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Amy Lyons
- Job title
- Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07990515217
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