Overview
A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
12-months, fixed term, 32 hours per week - applicants seeking to work less than 32 hours per week may also be considered and are encouraged to contact for discussion.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Neuropsychology to join our neuropsychology and rehabilitation services. This is due to the successful securing of funding to aid the development of psychologically informed care in stroke rehabilitation across the system.
The post-holder will work alongside the BCHC’s Divisional Lead Consultant Neuropsychologist and in collaboration with colleagues in Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to develop a framework and training for psychologically informed care across stroke-rehabilitation services in Birmingham and Solihull. The postholder will also provide specialist clinical neuropsychology support to the multidisciplinary Solihull Adult Neurorehabilitation Team.
Responsibilities
* Deliver clinical neuropsychology service provision within the Solihull Adult Neurorehabilitation Team.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues across the system to develop screening protocols and associated training.
* Identify training and development needs for stroke rehabilitation staff and develop and deliver such training.
* Lead on scoping the need for psychological services in community stroke rehabilitation across Birmingham, Solihull and other linked areas, and develop a proposed staffing model and investment case for the system.
* Provide supervision and leadership support to psychological professionals working in BCHC's community Neurorehabilitation services, supported by the Divisional Lead Consultant Psychologist.
* Develop and implement highly complex formulations and plans for formal neuropsychological treatment and/or management of clients’ complex psychological problems, using advanced knowledge across care settings.
* Disseminate evidence-informed psychological practice by developing and supporting the use of psychologically and neuropsychologically informed protocols, guidelines and procedures for routine practice within the service.
Qualifications and Experience
* Extensive experience in Neuropsychology.
* At a minimum, has completed the underpinning knowledge component of qualifications towards eligibility for entry onto the Specialist Register for Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN).
* Demonstrable strategic leadership experience relevant to a Consultant-level position.
Working for BCHC
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people\'s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with Learning Disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Important
* Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
* Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025
Notes
To undertake and advise other psychologists in highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments of complex cases, assessing cognition, personality, beliefs, attitudes, behaviour, emotional function, and other relevant psychological characteristics and dimensions and factors relevant to the development, maintenance and understanding of the client’s neuropsychological difficulties as appropriate.
To develop highly complex formulations and implement plans for the formal neuropsychological treatment and/or management of a client\'s highly complex psychological problems, including family breakdown, serious mental illness, vulnerable adults and aggressive and violent behaviour, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client\'s problems, using advanced and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices across the full range of care settings, where frequent and intense concentration is required.
To develop and implement highly complex plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the client’s presenting problems, that are based upon highly specialist and advanced knowledge and an appropriate conceptual framework, that employ psychological procedures and practices having an evidence base for their efficacy and/or an established theoretical basis for their use.
To facilitate the dissemination of effective evidence-informed psychological practice within the service by developing and supporting the use of psychologically and neuropsychologically informed protocols, guidelines and procedures by other professionals and members multidisciplinary services so that they are incorporated within routine practice.
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