Job summary
- Main area
- Neuropsychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-CANDI-825-B
- Employer
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Islington Outlook Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 Per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist Community Neurorehabilitation
NHS AfC: Band 8a
At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
We have 3 key priorities which are:
- Early and Effective Intervention
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation
The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:
- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
As an applicant for this role, you are urged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification and provide examples of how C&I values are an integral part of the way you have and will continue to deliver service.
Job overview
Job title: Clinical Psychologist for Community Neurorehabilitation
Salary: Band 8a (depending on previous experience)
Job type: Permanent
Part time (0.5 WTE) –18.75 hours per week
Main duties of the job
Islington Community Neurorehabilitation Team (ICNRT) is a community-based team providing multi-disciplinary rehabilitation to people with neurological and complex physical disabilities in Islington. You will work alongside the lead clinical psychologist for ICNRT to provide specialist psychological assessment (including neuropsychological assessment), advice and a range of therapeutic interventions (primarily aimed at depression and anxiety associated with the difficulties of living with a neurological disability) to people under the care of the ICNRT. Interventions are undertaken both in people’s homes and at our clinical base, Islington Outlook.
You will also be involved in the neuropsychological assessment of people referred directly by the Consultant Neurologists based at the Whittington Hospital.
Please note that although this role is employed by Camden and Islington (Candi) you will be working in Islington for Whittington Health.
This post is well supported by a group of psychologists with a special interest in neuropsychology who meet regularly. You will also have access to Candi CPD events.
Working for our organisation
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide specialist neuropsychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients and their families to provide psychological treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
- To provide specialist neuropsychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
- To undertake responsibilities as a member of the multi-professional Community Rehabilitation Team, including attending team meetings.
- To liaise with specialist units around the country with whom Islington patients are placed, monitoring the rehabilitation programmes provided in the units and planning for discharge back to local services.
- To lead on the assessment and treatment of clients referred by the consultant neurologists at the Whittington Hospital.
Teaching, training, and supervision
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee psychologists and, where required, assistant psychologists.
- To continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or other applied psychologists, as appropriate.
- To provide supervision to other professional groups as appropriate (e.g. occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistants).
- Management, policy and service development.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services’ operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of trainee psychologists and, where required, of assistant psychologists, within the framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
Research and service evaluation
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluate service provision.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Completed or in the process of completing QiCN training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of substantial post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical NHS experience working with clients in the area of neuro-rehabilitation/assessment
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist within a neuro multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in a community neurorehab team
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with neurological conditions.
- Further training (to include CPD events) in the application of clinical neuropsychology
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience in supervising trainee and/or B7 clinical psychologists
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Joanne Chan
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For any question please contact the following:
Dr Joanne Chan
Lead Clinical Psychologist
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