Clinical Psychologist in Stroke Psychology

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We see this as a strong opportunity for psychologists working towards or already in Qualified and Experienced Band 7 or Band 8a roles, exploring their interest in psychology applied to stroke and the broader field of neuropsychology and clinical health psychology.
We welcome a clinical psychologist to join our Department as the specialist psychologist working in the Stroke pathway, for a Fixed-Term (1 year) period of maternity cover.
The role is embedded with the acute stroke ward MDT at Hillingdon Hospital, and the community ESD (Early Stroke Discharge) MDT who provide post-acute discharge rehabilitation for patients in their homes.
It is facilitated by efficient relations and systems of collaboration across both teams . The nominal job plan is 3 sessions acute, 3 sessions community.
To provide specialist psychological care to acute stroke inpatients onsite at Hillingdon Hospital, as well as patients in their homes in the Borough, thus the person in this role will be based on the Hillingdon Hospital site and able to travel to patients’ homes within in the Borough.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
As part of a collective of CHP Departments in NWL, we are in a good position to facilitate within-Trust movement should you wish to continue in the specialty. You can hear directly from our clinical leads on the vision for CNWL Psychological Professions in our Trust here .
1. To provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment of clients referred to the stroke psychology service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the direct and indirect psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s stroke recovery and rehabilitation needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across acute ward and home care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care

Please refer the Job description for details