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Clinical Psychologist in Neurological Rehabilitation | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2024 |
| Location: | Horsham, RH12 2DR |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6422395/150-CP0164-WST |
Summary
Come and work for a Community NHS Foundation Trust which strives to deliver excellent care at the heart of the community, is rated "good" by CQC and which has values of achieving ambitions, delivering excellence, working together and compassionate care.
These demonstrate our belief in both personalised care and staff development and we offer a supportive and innovative environment in which to develop your career as a clinical psychologist specialising in neurological rehabilitation. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated clinical psychologist to join our friendly and supportive team.
Candidates must possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills. A driving licence and a car available to use for work are essential as you will be required to travel across sites and in the community.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and develop the psychology service within the teams and work alongside the Band 7 clinical leads to improve the service we offer to patients.
Your role will include:
• Carrying a clinical caseload and ensuring the provision of a high quality specialist neuropsychology service to adults living with a neurological condition and to their carers
• Supporting the psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions provided by other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatments
• Offering specialist advice and consultation to patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers
• Providing consultation, training, and support to the MDT and to other professionals working with people with neurological conditions, and to mainstream mental health teams
• Supervision of the Band 5 Assistant Psychologist and working together to develop the service
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job Summary
• To work as a core member of the multidisciplinary neurological rehabilitation teams
• To carry a clinical caseload and to ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist neuropsychology service to adults living with a neurological condition and to their carers
• To support the psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions provided by other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatments
• To offer specialist advice and consultation to patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers
• To provide consultation, training, and support to the MDT and to other professionals working with people with neurological conditions, and to mainstream mental health teams.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
• To propose and implement policy changes within the Community Neuro Rehab Team
• The post holder is expected to drive between visits using their own car and will be required to travel to other office/ hospital based locations across the Trust for meetings, training and supervision.
Main Duties
1. Assesses and treats own specialist caseload of clients and maintains associated records
2. Provides, develops, and manages highly specialist interventions
3. Clinically supervises assistant practitioners, graduate psychologists and doctoral trainees
4. Contributes to the supervision of less experienced qualified psychologists
5. Works in the community, in hospital, and in outpatient facilities with individuals, families, and other teams and services involved
6. Co-ordinates provision of a specialist service and provides specialist advice and consultation to other professions and carers.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jul 2024