Senior Applied Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling)

Job overview

To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to people affected by neurological conditions, with some opportunities for working with those affected by other health conditions.

To manage and hold clinical responsibility for a specialist caseload and provide highly specialist assessment and interventions focusing on identifying and treating psychological issues associated with these health challenges.

To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training as appropriate to service-users, their significant others and colleagues within the organisation, and to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

To contribute to service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.

While this role is being advertised at Band 8a, our team would also consider offering a preceptorship (from Band 7 to 8a) for a more newly qualified clinician who wants to develop their knowledge and skills within the field of neuropsychology – and the competencies outlined in this job description reflect this.  This would be a developmental role, with support in place from the wider Health Psychology and associated multi-disciplinary teams, to work towards the higher-level competencies expected from the 8a role.

Main duties of the job

• Develop and deliver timely evidenced-based psychological interventions to service-users recently diagnosed with a stroke, and their families, as part of the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) stroke service. This will involve developing effective working relationships and close liaison with the acute stroke unit and community stroke service.
• Work as part of an established multidisciplinary team within the Health Psychology Service to contribute to the delivery of a county-wide psychology service for patients with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and stroke. There will also be some opportunities to also offer input into other physical health conditions pathways.
• Play a key role in ensuring the systematic and equitable provision of high quality psychological assessment and interventions.  This will involve providing specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation, treatment and rehabilitation.
• Offer advice, training and consultation on service-users’ psychological care to colleagues and other professionals, working under clinical supervision within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• Work autonomously across a variety of settings, such as: inpatient stroke unit, community stroke service, social services, primary and secondary mental health services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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