Job summary
- Main area
- H&F Neuro Rehabilitation,
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-PMS-456
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- H&F Neuro Rehabilitation,
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are looking for a 0.6 WTE Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to provide specialist neuropsychology support to the Hammersmith and Fulham Neuro Rehabilitation Service, which is part of CLCH NHS Trust.
This service offers interdisciplinary community neurorehabilitation in the borough of Westminster (H&F). There are a number of different care pathways offered by the service including neuro rehabilitation, assessment and advice for long term neurological conditions, disability management and support for rapidly progressive conditions. The service includes an early supported discharge team (ESD) for stroke patients and a Specialist Neurological Rehabilitation Outreach Service (SNROS).
The post-holder will work across these different care pathways and be responsible for providing neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation for patients and their families. This will involve a range of work including cognitive assessment and rehabilitation, psychological therapy to help with emotional adjustment and engagement in rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, teaching and consultation.
We are looking for someone who has excellent clinical skills, experience of working with neurological conditions, the ability to communicate clearly to a wide range of professionals and an enthusiasm for service development.
There will be excellent opportunities for CPD and we can provide supervision for psychologists working towards entry on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve working as part of an interdisciplinary community neuro rehabilitation team consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists. The clinical psychologist is responsible for providing neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation for patients with neurological disorders as well as providing support for their families and carers. This includes cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapy to help with emotional adjustment and engagement in rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, teaching and consultation.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATION
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society.
- Current registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Care and Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/ or other health professionals.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology assessment, intervention and outcome measures with patients with neurological conditions.
- Experience of working at a specialist/highly specialist clinical psychologist level in neurological rehabilitation setting
- Experience of working within and actively participating in a team environment and contributing a psychological perspective within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of health care professionals and/or assistant/trainee psychologists
Desirable criteria
- Experience of taking a leadership role in service development
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
- 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 patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of recent government policy and legislation relevant to neuropsychological rehabilitation (e.g. NSF for Long Term Conditions, NICE Guidelines for Stroke)
- Highly specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for patients with neurological problems and neuropsychological rehabilitation
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable criteria
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
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 Emma Reynolds
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
List jobs with West London NHS Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors