Job summary
- Main area
- Neurology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 11.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7519577
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Neuropsychologist (Band 8b)
Band 8b
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Clinical Neuropsychologist to work within our friendly pschology team at Airedale General Hospital. The team consists of Clinical Psychologists working in a number of specialities in medical psychology, ICU, neonates and paediatrics as well as neuropsychology, an Assistant Psychologist and our admin support team.
The role is varied across a diversity of patients’ clinical presentations, and is supported by an experienced, qualified colleague and a highly trained Assistant Psychologist working permanently into the service. Clinical work includes formal cognitive assessment and rehabilitation advice, adapted psychological therapy , adjustment to illness, consultation, teaching and support to other professionals.
We would welcome any prospective candidates to contact us to arrange a visit to our department and meet the team.
Main duties of the job
This is a very exciting opportunity for an experienced
Neuropsychologist to contribute to the provision of the
neuropsychology outpatients service for neurology patients in
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. The role is varied across a
diversity of patients’ clinical presentations, and is supported by
an experienced, qualified colleague and a highly trained
assistant psychologist working permanently into the service.
Clinical work includes formal cognitive assessment and
rehabilitation advice, adapted psychological therapy ,
adjustment to illness, consultation, teaching and support to
other professionals.
The Neuropsychology Outpatients section is a coherent and
supportive team within a friendly and caring Healthcare
Psychology department. The service is based at Airedale
Hospital, which serves the Airedale/Wharfedale/Craven district
of Yorkshire. We are an innovative, growing service with
strong links to other West Yorkshire Clinical Health
Psychology services. We regularly have trainees on
placement – primarily from the doctoral training course at
Leeds University. We strongly support CPD and reflective
practice.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist neuropsychological and psychological
assessments of neurology patients, based upon the
appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly
complex psychological data from a variety of sources
including neuropsychological and psychological tests, selfreport measures, rating scales, direct and indirect
structured observations and semi-structured interviews with
patients, family members and others involved in the client’s
care.
• To formulate, develop and implement plans for the formal
psychological treatment and/or management of patients’
neuropsychological and/or mental health problems, based
upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s
problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy,
across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of
psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families
and groups, within and across teams.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options
taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models,
and highly complex factors concerning historical and
developmental processes that have shaped the individual,
family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the
assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose
problems are managed by psychologically based standard
care plans.
• To provide highly specialised psychological advice,
guidance and consultation to other professionals
contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and
treatment plans.
• To ensure that all relevant professionals have access to a
psychologically based framework for understanding and
care of clients of the service.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for
individual clients and to provide general advice to other
professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment
and management with reference to deliberate self- harm.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner
information concerning the assessment, formulation and
treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor
and evaluate progress during both uni- and multidisciplinary care.
• To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the
effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by
other relevant professionals.
Please attached job description for more details
Person specification
Professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Further specialist training in the assessment and treatment of neurological disorders presenting with the full range of clinical severity through formal post - doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning as assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equivalent level to a postgraduate diploma.
- Completion of formal training in clinical supervision.
- HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- Substantial experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist, with experience as a senior psychologist and substantial evidence of working (post-qualification) within a Neuropsychological setting.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment
- Experience of teaching, training and of providing clinical supervision to psychologists and other healthcare professionals
Desirable criteria
- Substantial experience of working in an adult neuropsychological setting postdoctoral qualification
- Experience of contributing directly to the processes of service development and policy implementation
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- High level skills in providing consultation to professional and nonprofessional groups within and outside the NHS.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of neuropsychological assessment and treatment.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- High level skills in the assessment and management of risk
- High level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Skills in the interpretation of service policy and professional guidance and clinical governance in relation to clinical, professional and managerial practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
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
- Lincoln Simmonds
- Job title
- Psychology Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292842
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