Clinical Neuro/psychologist

**Job**: Clinical Neuro/Psychologist Community Stroke Team

**Location**: North Warwickshire

**Salary**: Band 8a 0.5 wte (Band 7 Preceptorship considered)

**Job Type**: Permanent

This post (18.75 hours) offers an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Neuro/Psychologist to join the newly developed Community Stroke Team covering North Warwickshire.

The Community Stroke Team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Dietitians, Speech and Language Therapists and Rehabilitation Assistants. This innovative pathway offers stroke patients in North Warwickshire comprehensive rehabilitation to support their discharge from hospital and maximise their stroke recovery. The work will predominantly take place within patients’ homes and the post-holder will be required to drive significant distances. Virtual working from home or base will also be required. There are opportunities to provide teaching and consultation to other team members.

You will have the opportunity to be part of the Clinical Health Psychology Department at Warwick Hospital and the Neuropsychology Department at Leamington Hospital through attendance at meetings and seminars.

There may be opportunities to combine this role with other permanent/temporary Clinical Psychologist posts within the Trust.

**For further information please contact**:
Dr Andie Lees, Clinical Neuropsychologist or Michelle Moore-Gregory, Stroke Clinical & Operational Lead

**Tel**: 01926 317731

To work as a highly specialist Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist within Early Supported Discharge and Community Stroke as a member of an interdisciplinary team, which include Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics, Psychology, Assistant Practitioners and Rehabilitation Technicians, providing services to adults referred into the Warwickshire Early Supported Discharge Team for Stroke. This is an interdisciplinary service specialising in the treatment and management of patients following discharge from the acute stroke pathway from University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.

To be responsible for managing a caseload and working with the integrated team to support the rehabilitation of patients referred into the service

To provide highly specialist evidenced-based psychological assessment and treatment of complex cases, requiring detailed analysis, formulation and interventions to reduce the adverse consequences of stroke, cognitive impairment and disorders of mood, so as to maximise rehabilitation potential and quality of life.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to patients referred to the Warwickshire Early Supported Discharge and Community Team for Stroke (ESD).

Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, training and consultation to members of the ESD and Community Stroke team, and across a wide range of agencies and settings where appropriate.

Work as an effective member within the interdisciplinary team.

Establish and maintain effective communication with various individuals and groups on complex and potentially stressful topics in a range of situations.

Supervise and manage Trainee Clinical Psychologists/Assistant Psychologists, within the framework of team’s policies and procedures.

Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and with other team members.

Contribute to team meetings and effective operation of the ESD and Community Stroke Team. To be an integral part of the clinical leadership for the ESD and Community Stroke Team. This will include working collaboratively with other therapy clinical specialists to support staff, service delivery and service development.

Demonstrate familiarity with the principles of the safeguarding of vulnerable adult procedures and legislation in relation to the patient group.

Communication

To liaise with the Service Lead, Clinical Team Leader, Multidisciplinary teams, Consultants and GPs a