Clinical Psychologist in Neuropsychology

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond - **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the thriving department of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences.

We are looking for a highly motivated Clinical Psychologist who has a strong interest in pursuing a career in neuropsychology and has the appropriate experience to work autonomously in an outpatient service for patients with a very wide range of neurological conditions. The Psychologist will be experienced in providing comprehensive neuropsychology assessments and will be skilled in providing interventions using multiple models including cognitive behavioural therapy and cognitive rehabilitation.

**Main duties of the job**:
This is a development post that is intended to enable a Psychologist to gain the skills and qualifications necessary to work as an effective and confident Clinical Neuropsychologist in the future.

You will join one of the largest Neuropsychology teams in the country. We are a group of highly committed and supportive clinicians who work across inpatient, outpatient and community settings supported by an excellent administrative and managerial team.

The person will benefit from the supervision structure and peer support of the department and the additional CPD opportunities afforded here.

For this specific post, we are looking for a proactive and creative individual who has a keen interest in research of clinical outcome and developing services. This is a new post that has been developed to help better manage outpatient waiting times and a key aspect of the post is looking at ways of improving timely access for the people referred to our service. For this purpose, time is ringfenced for research and service development.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications / Accreditation**:
**Essential criteria**:

- DClinPsy
- HCPC registered

**Desirable criteria**:

- PGDip Neuropsychology
- Additional academic qualification (e.g. diploma, research MSc, PhD)

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- 1 year Previous experience of work in a neuropsychology service
- Neuropsychological assessments
- Cognitive interventions
- Mental capacity assessments
- Adapting communication
- MDT working

**Desirable criteria**:

- Previous experience of patients undergoing rehabilitation and exhibiting challenging behaviour in an inpatient or outpatient setting.
- Previous experience of providing clinical supervision for Assistant Psychologists.
- Prior experience of service development.
- Prior experience of research activity in neuroscience population.

**COVID-19 Vaccination Information
**COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination.

If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information on the government website here where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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**Applicant requirements**:
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.