Principal Clinical Neuro Psychologist

Ely - Fen House, 143 Lynn Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Principal Clinical Psychologist

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK.Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.

Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

MAIN PURPOSE:

To provide strategic, professional leadership to the multi/inter disciplinary team within Kerwin Court, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need. To interpret professional policies, ensuring that the services operate at the highest level of quality and current best practice. Research and development will be a major responsibility as will taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as a whole.

To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other clinicians within Brainkind.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your responsibilities will include:

• ensuring the provision and development of high quality, innovative, and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice.
• providing specialist psychological assessment of our service users, using psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, structured observations and interviews;
  
  - formulating and implementing specialist psychological treatment plans for mental health and adjustment difficulties based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice;
• contributing highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and supervising their implementation;
  
  - undertaking psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and advising team members appropriately;
• participating in multidisciplinary team meetings concerned with the delivery and development of clinical services;
  
  - Supporting Service Managers/Regional Managers in all aspects of managing the service and to report to the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.

ABOUT YOU:

What are we looking for?

• The successful applicant will have a doctorate in clinical psychology (or equivalent) accredited by the BPS. It is essential that you are able to gather, analyse and interpret complex multi-factorial clinical information, and formulate this so as to effectively direct team working.
• We are looking for an individual who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to deal with complex and emotive subjects.
• You will have excellent organisation skills, the ability to prioritise workloads, the ability to administer and interpret a range of psychometric tests, and a track record of conducting clinical research or audit.
• We are looking for a clinical psychologist with experience in neurorehabilitation, an interest in neuropsychology, and motivated to develop an excellent service further.

REWARDS:

You can look forward to excellent benefits, including handy discounts on many brands and services.

• A competitive salary of £64,455 - £74,896 per annum DOE
• 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) (pro rata)
• Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Group life assurance
• Free parking
• Company Pension
• Long Service and Staff Awards

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure…