Clinical Psychologist Stroke Preceptorship Band 7

Employer:

NHS Jobs

Location:

Pay:

£47,810.00 to £62,682.00 per year, £47810.00 - £62682.00 a year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

06/03/2026

Job Summary The post holder will be responsible for providing, specialist comprehensive psychological and neuropsychological assessments (stroke) and programmes of psychological care for individuals who have experienced a stroke and their families.

This will include work with people in the in-patient stroke rehabilitation unit and following discharge into the community where appropriate.

They will work collaboratively with the other health and social care professionals, third sector staff and non-professional carers.

They will help organise and initiate service developments in consultation with the lead psychologist.

As well as managing their own patient workload they will be responsible for supervising the psychological work of Assistant Psychologists and other MDT staff.

They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Stroke Services policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities Clinical Provide a specialist clinical service to patients and their families who have had a stroke.

Develop trusting and empathic relationships with clients and be able to communicate highly emotive information with clarity and sensitivity.

Assess and interpret complex clinical situations and information from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, structured observations and semi structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.

Develop formulations and use psychological models and frameworks to provide patients and their families with specialised programmes of care, based on evidence of efficacy, to aid rehabilitation and help them adjust to and cope emotionally with the often significantly distressing aspects of their condition.

This may occur in individual or group settings.

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.

Provide assessment and interventions to enable rehabilitation for clients referred from the stroke rehabilitation unit.

Carry out neuropsychological assessments where appropriate and communicate findings to the client, family members and other health and social care staff involved.

Make recommendations and contribute to the neuropsychological and physical rehabilitation of clients with a stroke.

Help facilitate therapeutic groups where needed in collaboration with other psychologists and MDT staff.

Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings and work collaboratively and in an integrated manner with other health professionals e.g.

Specialist Nurses, Occupational therapists, Medical Consultants, Physiotherapists, Speech Language Therapists and other NHS and social services staff.

Liaise regularly and work collaboratively with the existing psychologist in stroke.

Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

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 carry out and contribute to mental capacity assessments where appropriate in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Responsible for prioritising work activities according to service and user needs and resources and managing own clinical case load.

Responsible for providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation on the psychological care of clients to non-psychologist colleagues as appropriate.

Responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through continuing professional development and further develop specialist knowledge and skills relevant to the service and clinical psychology.

Participate in Professional Development…