Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist Lincoln, England
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join and contribute to the leadership of the Lincolnshire Neuropsychology Service. As a department, we are proud to receive consistently positive feedback and pride ourselves on our flexible and person centred approach to neuropsychological care. Following a much welcomed uplift in our resources we are excited to continue our focus on improving service access and delivery to patients across the county with an acquired brain injury or neurological condition.
The development of our tele-neuropsychology pathway in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has afforded greater flexibility in terms of remote working, however applicants should be aware that due to the complexity of our caseload there will nevertheless be the requirement to facilitate a significant proportion of direct face to face contacts with patients across the county.
It is essential for candidates to be listed on the The British Psychological Society Division of Neuropsychology Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists, and to be able to demonstrate significant clinical experience working within neuropsychology with patients presenting with acquired brain injury and neurological conditions.
We encourage potential applicants to contact the department directly for discussion in advance of their application – please contact Dr Gemma Elliott directly on 01522 508323 or via email to [email protected]. Job shares will be considered.
The post holder will work alongside the Service Lead Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist to deliver high quality neuropsychological provision across the county of Lincolnshire. In addition to varied, complex and autonomous clinical work, the post holder will be expected to contribute to service management, development and delivery.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Clinical Care
To provide a highly specialist inpatient and outpatient neuropsychology and neuropsychological rehabilitation service across Lincolnshire.
To provide expert neuropsychological assessment of clients based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological and psychological tests, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. Clinical work may require intense concentration over extended periods in a constrained position and will frequently involve working with highly distressed clients.
To take responsibility for the treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are neuropsychologically based, communicating with relevant others on a regular basis.
To receive and communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information through the referral, assessment and rehabilitation process of clients with neurological conditions and psychological disturbance.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management, referring to colleagues in mental health services as appropriate.
To undertake assessments regarding client’s capacity and ability to consent to treatment and other matters arising.
To work within MDTs, formulating plans for the management of client’s problems and providing highly specialist neuropsychological and psychological consultation to inform interventions. Taking direct responsibility for implementing intervention work will also be required depending on the resources of the service.
Provide expert neuropsychological consultation and advice to other professionals including neurologists, rehabilitation medicine consultants, psychiatrists, GPs, specialist nurses, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists.
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients, and to manage highly distressing and emotive situations in the course of working with an individual case load, and with other professionals.
Clinical Leadership & Management
To work alongside and support the Service Lead Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist to:
Provide clinical supervision and line management to staff specialising in neuropsychology within the department, including qualified psychologists, research and assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, rehabilitation assistants and clerical staff.
Manage recruitment, workload allocation, continuing professional development, discipline and performance management, and annual appraisals.
To ensure high standards of record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, in line with the policies and procedures of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and The British Psychological Society.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systemic governance of neuropsychological practice within the neuropsychology service.
To ensure the development, maintenance and articulation of best practice in clinical neuropsychology, both within the Trust and across the local health-care community.
Ensure positive links with the local health-care community, including charitable organisations such as Headway Lincolnshire.
Propose and implement service development and policy changes within Neuropsychology.
Clinical Governance
Participate in all clinical governance activities, including information governance, confidentiality and clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management and quality improvement activities as required by the Trust and external accrediting bodies.
Personal & Professional Development
Keep fully up-to-date with developments in neuropsychological practice by attending post qualification training events, conferences and other CPD events.
Maintain registration with the Health Care Professions Council and the British Psychological Society’s Division of Neuropsychology Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists.
Maintain regular clinical supervision with a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist who holds full registration and licence to practise with the HCPC and is on The British Psychological Society Division of Neuropsychology Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
