Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £74,290.00 to £85,601.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £74290.00 - £85601.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 June 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 8AH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0572 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. To build on existing relationships with commissioners across the East of England to develop pathways for children with acquired brain injury in accordance with the NHSE rehabilitation guidance and service specifications. Management of commissioning across the paediatric neurorehabilitation pathway from acute to community in collaboration with those working from the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, the interdisciplinary team on the ward and to support discharge planning in liaison with the different East of England commissioners and transition into the community. To provide paediatric neuropsychological leadership for the interdisciplinary team at the CCPNR, supporting with complex formulations and through the provision of supervision of the individual team members. To formulate plans for the neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of childrens needs in collaboration with the interdisciplinary teams, across the full range of care settings and in collaboration with the child, young person, parent or family. To provide highly specialist neuropsychological assessments and interventions for children and families based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including the MDTs in the hospital, psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist neuropsychological interventions at a level required for independent practice as recognised through eligibility for accreditation, or educational qualification. To implement highly specialist neuropsychological interventions for children, young people, carers, families and groups, within and across teams and education providers, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses recognising national, divisional and trust-wide standards of evidence based (neuro)psychological intervention. To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.