Neuropsychologist in The Psychology Service

This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly skilled, innovative, and experienced Clinical/Counselling or Neuropsychologist to play a lead role in the strategic development and delivery of Psychological services across our Stroke department at University Hospital Lewisham.

As a senior member of the stroke and rehabilitation team you will be essential in shaping the service and ensuring excellent and compassionate care to patients. The role within the inpatient team will involve specialist assessment, cognitive rehabilitation and psychological therapy to patients on the unit. You will liaise with patients and their families through family meetings and key worker provision to facilitate the successful transition to the community services. You will be responsible for the clinical and professional supervision of a full time 8a psychology post on the stroke ward as well as two full time 8a psychology posts in the community stroke teams.

This role sits within a passionate and dynamic multi-disciplinary team, including medics, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists providing inpatient acute stroke rehabilitation.

We encourage continuing professional development. The post-holder will be offered clinical supervision from the Neuropsychology Department at Kings College Hospital, with the opportunity to undertake Neuropsychological qualifications if desired.

To ensure the systematic provision and evaluation of a highly specialised Psychology Service in neurorehabilitation within the Stroke service at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT). To provide clinical expertise in psychological rehabilitation and leadership for the stroke service in LGT. To provide clinical supervision to other Clinical/Counselling Psychologists/Neuropsychologists within the service. To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines, service policies and procedures as well as Trust guidelines. To provide a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community in teaching and training, as well as undertaking research activities. To provide advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients to non-psychologist colleagues, to support and embed skills-development of psychologically informed ways of working and the use of self-management approaches across the team. To carry out audit policy, propose and implement service development changes within the department.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

CLINICAL
1. Provision of highly specialist psychological assessments of inpatients and outpatients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care.
2. Integration of psychological data, behavioural observation and specialist neurology medical knowledge to make highly skilled evaluations in the formulation of patient’s problems within an evidence based neuropsychological conceptual framework.
3. Delivery of evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions by drawing on a range of theoretical options.
4. Provision of highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (Stroke Consultants, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, nurses, etc.) patients and their carers, contributing directly to patient’s diagnosis and treatment management.
5. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans in relation to indivi