Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7318475
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2025
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Neuropsychologist for Inpatient Stroke (Band 8b)
NHS AfC: 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 are excited to be able to offer this newly developed permanent post working on an inpatient basis on the Stroke Unit (also treating other neurological conditions) at Airedale General Hospital. This position is part of a strategic development to expand the Therapies team offer for both the patients and MDT of the ward. This is the ideal post for an enthusiastic and inventive Psychologist, with skills in establishing new service provisions, and is interested in working alongside other professionals in order to support patients and their families.
The postholder will primarily work on the inpatient ward at Airedale Hospital,but will have key relationships with established psychology posts within the community stroke team and neuropsychology outpatients. The post holder will be expected to deliver compassionate and skilled psychological care to patients on the neurology ward. In addition to direct therapy work, there will be the need to work closely with nurses, rehab assistants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech language therapists and medical staff, supporting the development of psychological care within the specialties. The role will involve some supervision, teaching, training, and consultation to the team. Service-evaluation and audit will also be an important and valued element of the role. The role could be offered as a Band 8a / 8b preceptorship.
Main duties of the job
This is a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Neuropsychologist to implement a high-quality specialist clinical neuropsychology service on the Stroke Unit at Airedale General Hospital. The post holder will take a specialist lead clinical role in continuing the development of the Stroke Psychology Service, with the post-holder’s equivalent in the Community Stroke Service.
The post-holder will work closely with the stroke multidisciplinary team to provide highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation and therapy, taking full professional responsibility and exercising completely autonomous judgement, in matters of professional practice.
In addition, the post-holder will have strategic oversight of the implementation, evaluation and measurement of the development of the inpatient stroke psychology service & will offer consultation, advice and disseminate psychological ideas to the wider stroke MDT.
Additionally, the post holder will contribute to the general management, governance and supervision of the wider Clinical Health Psychology Service as agreed. The post-holder will work autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Clinical Health Psychology Department and Trust policies and procedures
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
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification
The post holder will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of Adult Neuropsychology, and will also have considerable scope to develop the role in response to changing demands and opportunities as they arise. The post holder will be very well supported through clinical and professional supervision, ongoing relationships with counterparts in other neuropsychology specialties and will be a valued member of the wider Healthcare Psychology team
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychologsychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapy (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of ps 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
- Substantial experience working in an inpatient setting
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 at senior psychologist level and substantial experience in Neuropsychology
- 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
- Experience of working with patients who have had a stoke
- Experience of working in an acute hospital setting
- 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
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
- Professional Lead Healthcare Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292842
- Additional information
Laura Rowe | Deputy Chief Allied Health Professional and Head of Therapy Services
Airedale General Hospital, Steeton. Keighley. BD20 6TD
Tel: 01535 23659
Email: [email protected]
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