Hobbs Rehabilitation 'South East' are looking to recruit a senior Clinical Neuropsychologist to work closely alongside the experienced AHP team in their modern, purpose-designed rehabilitation base at Liss with its good commuter links with the south coast and South London. The team has an excellent reputation for cutting edge rehabilitation, especially in the field of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and have extensive experience of working with Clinical Neuropsychologists. The post would suit someone with highly developed team-working skills with a proven track record in this, who is wishing to branch out from an NHS post for a proportion of the working week or someone working privately but who wishes to remain in contact with Neuropsychologists and an established and experienced AHP MDT day-to-day. The successful applicant will have access to regular clinical and professional supervision from a Hobbs Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and benefit from being part of the Hobbs-wide Clinical Neuropsychology service. The role is 0.4WTE. Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the outpatient facility at Hobbs South East, responsible for psychological aspects of neurological rehabilitation including specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention. To work with clients with complex health, social and psychological needs, their therapists, and other stakeholders (e.g. funders, case managers etc). To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Hobbs South East service. Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES To provide complex psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers while working autonomously within professional guidelines. To gather and integrate complex data and information to deliver specialist psychological interventions in various formats (1:1, couple, family, and group interventions). To utilise research skills to contribute to audit, policy and service development, undertaking agreed personal research and development that fits within the ethos of the company. To evaluate outcomes and develop individual interventions accordingly. To work as an autonomous practitioner in intensive outpatient rehabilitation service and occasionally in clients' homes. To be individually accountable for all clinical decisions within professional guidelines while consulting appropriately with peers and receiving clinical supervision as per British Psychological Society and HCPC guidelines. To provide supervision within the department, for example, to any Assistant Psychologists and/or Student Psychologists as required. To contribute to developing, delivering, and evaluating formal and informal teaching and training given to healthcare staff in psychological skills to enhance the efficiency and dissemination of psychological knowledge and practice. Person Specification
Experience
Supervised experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and intervention with clients across a range of care settings, including community and hospital. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within a multidisciplinary care plan. Experience of regular and effective multidisciplinary working. Experience of working with a wide variety of adult client groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity, including patients with acute and chronic neurological conditions and Functional Neurological Symptoms. Experience of delivering tailored psychological and neuropsychological interventions and drawing on various therapeutic approaches. Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology as recognized by the BPS/HCPC. Registered as an Applied Psychology Practitioner member of the HCPC. Post-doctoral training in additional specialized areas of psychological practice, preferably neuropsychology or health psychology. Qualifications
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Completion of supervisor training so the job holder is able to supervise trainee clinical psychologists undertaking doctoral training. Salary
£63,000 to £67,000 a year depending on experience.
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