Clinical Neuropsychologist

We are looking for a Band 8b Clinical Psychologist to join our expanding Clinical Health and Neuropsychology service. This service has been created by the formation of Ealing Community Partners (ECP), a group of NHS, council and voluntary organisations working together to transform community health and care services within Ealing.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who will be the lead provider of a clinical neuropsychology service to the Enable Neuro Community Rehabilitation Service. We are looking for someone with experience of neuropsychological rehabilitation and/or neuropsychological assessment and intervention with patients with neurological conditions. The post would particularly suit someone who enjoys working with varied client groups, teamwork, providing consultation and teaching to other health professionals, and contributing to service development.

The role will involve working as part of an interdisciplinary community neuro rehabilitation team consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists. The clinical psychologist is responsible for providing neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation for patients with neurological disorders as well as providing support for their families and carers. This includes cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapy to help with emotional adjustment and engagement in rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, teaching and consultation.

There will be opportunities to support and develop links with the existing IAPT service in Ealing via supervision and co-facilitation of groups for patients.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness

Providing a highly specialised clinical neuropsychology service to the Enable Neuro Community Rehabilitation Service based in Ealing.

Working as part of an interdisciplinary neuro rehabilitation team consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists.

Providing neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation for patients with neurological disorders as well as providing support for their families and carers.

This will include cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapy to help with emotional adjustment and engagement in rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, teaching and consultation.

Developing close working relationships with local community, voluntary and IAPT services as well as providing clinical support to these pathways.

Developing vocational rehabilitation pathways for patients living with neurological conditions in Ealing.

The postholder will be expected to visit patients in their own homes, work places, community clinics, and any other settings in which the service is appropriately provided.