Assistant Neuropsychologist

4 weeks ago


North Hykeham, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Thank you for viewing our post for this 0.8 WTE Band 4 Assistant Neuropsychologist. We are thrilled to share this opportunity with someone to join our friendly, cohesive and hardworking neuropsychology team.

Our service is dedicated to providing a high-quality service to those living in Lincolnshire who have suffered acquired brain injuries and/or neurological conditions, such as traumatic brain injuries, strokes, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, etc. We work with those living in the community and provide input onto the local inpatient neurorehabilitation ward.

We accept referrals and work collaboratively with a range of disciplines, including rehabilitation medicine, neurology, mental health services and other allied health professionals. Our service offers holistic neuropsychological assessment, formulation, rehabilitation, consultation and/or advice.

We are looking for someone to join us who is enthusiastic and reliable; with a keen eye for attention to detail and is proactive but also receptive to supervision. This post is a great way to start to learn about neuropsychology and develop your clinical knowledge and skills. We are particularly interested in those with a like-minded interest in neuropsychology. For added insight, one of our assistant neuropsychologists has published a reflective piece in the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology East Midlands Branch around her learning and experiences of working in our community team (in June 2023).

This post is an exciting opportunity for those seeking a career in clinical psychology/neuropsychology. As our assistant neuropsychologist, your time will be evenly split between the community and the inpatient neurorehab ward (2 days each), which will allow you to learn and gain experience of working with different disciplines and settings.

Your role will involve supporting the service’s general administrative duties and the duties of our qualified clinical neuro-/psychologists, such as administering and scoring neuropsychological tests, behavioural observations, providing neurorehabilitation interventions, and research and audit under supervision.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for additional information about this role.