NRC Clinical Psychologist in Rehabilitation

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be a member of the Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology Department, working in the NRC Psychological Health team, and/or other specialisms as directed by the Head of Department. In the first instance this will be at the Linden Lodge Unit City Hospital, then move to the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) Loughborough during the autumn of 2025.

Your role is to provide highly specialist clinical psychology assessment, intervention and advice, on the basis of advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, acquired through doctoral level qualification. This clinical activity will be direct to patients and/or their family, or working indirectly, to advise other staff (individually or as a group) how to manage highly complex cases. You will have patients allocated to you, and you will be responsible for managing their psychological needs, act independently, and be accountable for your professional actions.

Your work will be with rehabilitation patients with various conditions, including musculoskeletal injury and sometimes brain injury.

You will contribute to the teaching and training of staff within the multidisciplinary team, supervision of trainee Clinical Psychologists, and other students who are on work placement with the team. You will supervise the clinical work of Assistant Psychologist(s) within the service, in their work with your patients, and/or be their primary clinical supervisor. However, this post does not have any budgetary or line management responsibility

In collaboration with the lead for the psychology rehabilitation team, you will contribute to the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service. This will involve interpreting national guidelines and local policy. You will participate in clinical governance activities.

You will contribute to, lead and/or supervise research activities, under the research programme of the Clinical and Neuropsychology team, as directed by the lead of the team.

You will generally work core hours (either 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm), during which you will be expected to be on-site.

As an NUH staff member, you may be asked to assist in the event of a Major Incident.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BPS accredited doctoral qualification in Clinical Psychology
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.

Desirable criteria

• Further training in a highly specialised psychological therapy or assessment methodology

Experience

Essential criteria

• Worked with a wide diversity of patients in terms of health condition, cognitive ability, age, ethnic and social groups.
• Worked in a range of health settings, including an NHS hospital.
• Worked within a multi-disciplinary team.

Desirable criteria

• Worked in a neuro-rehabilitation setting or specialist physical disability/injury service.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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