Clinical Psychologist in Stroke Psychology

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We welcome a colleague psychologist working towards or already in a Band 7 or Band 8a role, who has an interest in exploring applied psychology in stroke and the broader field of neuropsychology and clinical health psychology. This fixed-term post (till October 2025) will provide the scope to work and learn in this area, with expert supervision from an experienced senior Neuropsychologist.
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. The nominal job plan is 3 sessions acute inpatients, 3 sessions community.
The psychologist’s development and support will be facilitated by efficient relations and systems of collaboration across both clinical teams, the broader Department of Clinical Health Psychology, and expansive CPD offered through CNWL Psychological Professionals.
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

Please refer the Job description for details