Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Neuro-Rehabilitation,Permanent - part time (0.5)
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We are looking to appoint a highly motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to our forward-thinking and dedicated MDT, which comprises occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, clinical neuropsychologists, rehab assistants and nurses. This is a new post and an exciting opportunity following new investment and expansion of the team.
You will be part of a dynamic team, committed to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working. We provide rehab to adults with a broad range of neurological conditions.
In terms of professional links, you will join a small, supportive team of psychologists in the Adult Community Physical Heath Directorate with a shared interest in improving outcomes for patients with long-term conditions (see leaflet attached to the advert). There will be regular opportunities for collegiate support and to come together as a group as well as access to CPD and training opportunities. The postholder will receive specialist neuropsychology supervision.
Furthermore, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to receive training in offering reflective practice since staff support is one of the directorate high priorities.
Under supervision of senior practitioner psychologists, the post holder will work collaboratively with hospital and community multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
To provide specialist psychological assessments of Neuro-rehabilitation Service clients and other people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
To evaluate and make 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 autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager).
To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant clinical psychologists.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025
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