Principal Clinical Neuro Psychologist - Milton Keynes

Job Description

Principal Clinical Neuro Psychologist

Location: Milton Keynes             

Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum FTE DOE (£38,673 - £44,938 pro rata DOE)

Hours: 21hrs per week                

Why join us?

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

Thomas Edward Mitton House, part of Brainkind provides care and support for up to 16 people who have acquired brain injury and have a range of cognitive, physical and/or emotional symptoms following their brain injury.

MAIN PURPOSE:             

 

To provide strategic, professional leadership to the multi/inter disciplinary team within the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Brainkind, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need. To interpret professional policies, ensuring that the services operate at the highest level of quality and current best practice. Research and development will be a major responsibility as will taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as a whole. To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other clinicians within BIRT. To provide clinical leadership and direction for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Brainkind service across a designated service, including the clinical leadership of the multi/inter disciplinary team and support worker staff within designated service and other related BIRT services in the region.

 

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To provide a high level of expertise for specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to TEM House and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
• To complete preadmission assessments, developing highly specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioral formulations of an individual’s rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals.
• To be competent to support development of neurobehavioral rehabilitation within the Service, supported by the clinical director and clinical leadership team.
• To coordinate Service User’s care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/ clinical lead.
• To formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice. You will take the lead in very complex cases, oversee the care plans and neurobehavioral rehabilitation guidelines, providing support to other psychologists and the rest of the multi/inter disciplinary team.
• To support the multi/inter disciplinary team in the process of developing person centred, holistic goals based around personal values and social participation.
• To be responsible for providing a highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families particularly for complex cases. You will contribute highly specialist psychological and neuropsychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff, particularly in complex cases.
• To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required.
• To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team.
• To lead the Clinical Team and ensure that the Rehabilitation Support workers understand and implement the neurobehavioral rehabilitation approach. To do this by leading team meetings, ensuring staff have tutorials, group work, SMART goals and that other materials are available for supporting the clinical model within the service. To support colleagues in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy to working within the Brainkind Neurobehavioral Rehabilitation Model, and to encourage specialist learning and research within these professions.
• To be responsible for promoting and implementing agreed developments in brain injury rehabilitation service provision on behalf of Brainkind.
• To take a leading role in the evaluation of Brainkind Services by initiating, designing and implementing service-related research and evaluation projects with approval via the relevant processes

 

ABOUT YOU:

• The successful applicant will have a doctorate in clinical psychology (or equivalent) accredited by the BPS. It is essential that you are able to gather, analyse and interpret complex multi-factorial clinical information, and formulate this so as to effectively direct team working.
• We are looking for an individual who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to deal with complex and emotive subjects.
• You will have excellent organisation skills, the ability to prioritise workloads, the ability to administer and interpret a range of psychometric tests, and a track record of conducting clinical research or audit.
• We are looking for a clinical psychologist with experience in neurorehabilitation, an interest in neuropsychology, and motivated to develop an excellent service further.

 

REWARDS:

 

You can look forward to excellent benefits including:

• A competitive salary of £64,455 - £74,896 per annum FTE DOE
• 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) (pro rata)

• Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Free parking
• Company Pension
• Long Service and Staff Awards

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

To join our friendly team, click the Apply Now button.

**Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. **

*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.

Job Details

• Pay Type
• Salary

• Employment Indicator
• Regular

• Hiring Min Rate
• 64,455 GBP

• Hiring Max Rate
• 74,896 GBP