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Job overview
Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist. Divisional director of clinical health & neuropsychology Services- Adults’ Specialist Rehabilitation (ASR)
About the Role
You will provide strategic and professional leadership for psychology across ASR, covering:
- Neurological rehabilitation (Level 1b inpatients)
- Stroke inpatient and outpatient services
- Acquired Brain Injury pathways
- Specialist neurological clinics
- MSK/pain services
- Child & adult amputee services
- Weight‑management services
You will lead a skilled and supportive psychology workforce, work closely with divisional senior leadership, and contribute to service transformation, staff wellbeing, and high‑quality psychological governance.
You will have • A Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, HCPC registration, preferably specialist clinical health and or neuropsychology training, with eligibility for the neuropsychology register and significant post-qualification experience. (applications will be considered from candidates approaching completion of, or at the final stage of, their QiCN clinical portfolio—please clearly outline your current stage within your application).
- Advanced expertise in complex health or neuropsychological assessment and intervention, alongside strong skills in communication, research, consultation, and supervision. • Proven leadership, resilience, and a track record of service development, clinical governance, and supporting teams in high-pressure environments.
The post requires HCPC registration as a clinical psychologist
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will be responsible for strategic planning, organisational development, professional management and overall professional delivery of all psychology service provision in conjunction with the Divisional Leadership Team across ASR.
- To be the Psychology and Psychological Therapies professional lead and advisor and Lead Consultant Psychologist for ASR Divisional services, ensuring the delivery of psychological governance strategies across ASR services.
- To be professionally accountable for existing Psychology and Psychological Therapy services and ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality psychological governance strategies across ASR services and represent the service within senior management and commissioning forums.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
For further information, please contact. Dr. Sabiha Azmi. Trust Head of Psychology and Psychological Services. Email: [email protected] mobile: 07800 509 351
About You
We are looking for an experienced, forward-thinking Clinical Neuro-Psychologist with strong leadership skills, a passion for person-centred rehabilitation, and a commitment to innovation and service development.
You will have • A Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, HCPC registration, and specialist neuropsychology training, with eligibility for the neuropsychology register and significant post-qualification experience. (applications will be considered from candidates approaching completion of, or at the final stage of, their QiCN clinical portfolio—please clearly outline your current stage within your application).
- Advanced expertise in complex neuropsychological assessment and intervention, alongside strong skills in communication, research, consultation, and supervision.
- Proven leadership, resilience, and a track record of service development, clinical governance, and supporting teams in high-pressure environments.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Assessed extensive experience of working as a registered clinical psychologist, including extensive post qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life course presenting with a full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings ( outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care) including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan and team.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Registered with the HCPC
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Including neuropsychology
- Eligible for inclusion on the specialist register for neuropsychology.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client groups
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
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This advert is for Band 8d Divisional Lead-Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist (ASR) with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £94,356 - £108,814 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Jul 2026.
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