Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Stroke

at  Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

To operate as a senior member of both the SFHT Stroke Leadership Team and the Nottinghamshire Healthcare Neuropsychology Team to support the delivery of stroke psychology services. To advise commissioning bodies and the Nottinghamshire Integrated for Stroke Delivery Network as appropriate. To contribute to national forums which develop national guidance regarding the psychological management of stroke including the British Psychological Society, Health Service Executive, Royal College of Physicians Service, NHS England as appropriate. To plan, manage, lead and ensure the delivery of specialist psychological and neuropsychological services in line with national guidance for adults affected by stroke within the SFHT care pathway across specialist inpatient and community services.
To be responsible for designing, developing and delivering a high quality, specialist clinical psychology service to the newly formed SFHT Integrated Community Stroke Service for adults up to 6 months post stroke. Including the design and development of neuropsychological care pathways for the assessment and treatment of stroke related mood and cognition difficulties to comply with national guidance. The service will adhere to current evidence and national guidance including the NHS Service Model for an Integrated Community Stroke Service (2022). To design, oversee and implement a stepped care model of psychological care across the SFHT stroke pathway including inpatient and community settings to widen patient access to psychological care ensuring service delivery at all levels of care including by non-psychology staff.
To achieve this through training, consultation and supervision on psychological care to the multidisciplinary teams. To be responsible for the recruitment of Clinical Psychology staff for SFHT stroke services. To be jointly responsible, with the Lead Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, for the recruitment of Clinical Psychology staff for NHC stroke psychology services. To provide line management of Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists and provide specialist neuropsychological clinical supervision to Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists in both the Integrated Community Stroke Service and the inpatient Stroke Ward.
To be responsible for the organisation and professional leadership of Clinical and other Practitioner Psychologists, trainees, assistants, and placement students, as required. To provide professional expert leadership and supervision to a range of MDT colleagues across all service areas regarding the neuropsychological impact of stroke and its management. To be a teaching resource for local Clinical Psychology Training courses. To use research skills for service evaluation, audit, policy and service development.
To lead the assessment of the effectiveness of the Integrated Community Stroke Service including Psychology, using appropriate outcome measures and statistical analysis. To rigorously evaluate outcomes using appropriate measures and statistical analysis and suggest innovations to further enhance outcomes for patient care, to present the results to senior management and commissioning bodies. For more information, please see the attached job description and person specification

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