Clinical Psychologist Community Neurorehabilitation | Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 Per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, N17 6HZ |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6214002/455-CANDI-825-B |
Summary
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
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.
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/
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.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 May 2024