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Job requirements
Essential
29 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Demonstrable substantial years’ experience post-qualification of the application of clinical skills to specialist neuropsychology settings.
- Experience
Previous experience presenting to peers / colleagues on a range of clinical and research issues.
- Experience
Neuropsychological experience across a range of clinical settings, client ages and neuropsychological syndromes
- Experience
Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service including implementing psychotherapeutic interventions.
- Other Requirements
Demonstrate a commitment to professional development of self and others.
- Other Requirements
Knowledge of equalities issues and strong commitment to the promotion of equality in employment.
- Personal Qualities
A high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
- Personal Qualities
Must be able to cope with highly emotive and psychologically challenging demands of working with neurologically impaired patients for long periods of time.
- Personal Qualities
Must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people in a sensitive, caring, and non-judgemental manner.
- Academic and research
Previous experience of research indicating the ability to conduct research autonomously.
- Academic and research
Interest in conducting scientific research within relevant areas of clinical neuropsychology.
- Academic and research
Ability to critique and evaluate scientific data and best practice clinical guidelines.
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Honours degree in psychology or related disciplines, and a Doctorate and/or PhD level in clinical psychology/clinical neuropsychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Doctoral level research completed in a relevant area of clinical psychology/neuropsychology.
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Specialist knowledge of neuropsychology syndromes, functional neuroanatomy, assessment techniques and psychometrics
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Specialist knowledge of interventions and neurorehabilitation and an ability to guide and advise therapy staff on these principles
- Communication & Customer Care
Demonstrates understanding of, and ability to, manage the needs of patients with acute and chronic disability, including the use of supportive counselling skills as appropriate.
- Communication & Customer Care
Demonstrates professional and effective verbal and written communication skills including excellent negotiation skills with patients, carers, and other health professional staff in service delivery.
- Communication & Customer Care
Ability to communicate highly sensitive information to cognitively impaired and/or psychologically vulnerable people and their carers, who may have significant barriers to understanding or acceptance.
- Communication & Customer Care
Management of behavioural disturbances e.g., verbal aggression, inappropriate behaviour, and risk of physical aggression from people with a behavioural / cognitive disturbance.
- Personal & people development
Ability to establish good rapport and professional working relationships within multidisciplinary teams and other agencies for extended periods of time.
- Personal & people development
Ability to show leadership, initiative and utilise clinical supervision in different services effectively.
- Personal & people development
Ability to identify areas for own personal / professional development through highly developed reflective practice skills and integrate knowledge gained into own practice.
- Personal & people development
Effective time management and ability to prioritise own workload.
- Personal & people development
Ability to autonomously manage own caseload.
- Personal & people development
Ability to represent clinical psychology in multi-disciplinary group settings and within specialist clinical services.
- Quality and service improvement
Evidence of working effectively in multidisciplinary teams
- Quality and service improvement
Evidence of effective clinical reasoning in the assessment and management of complex neuro-disability.
- Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Personal & people development
Ability to complete clinical and research duties in an autonomous fashion.
- Quality and service improvement
Evidence of active engagement with stakeholders within the wider community e.g. NHS England; relevant Charity organisation
- Information processing (IT skills)
Competent IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets, statistical packages)
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Neuropsychologist or Psychologist with advanced clinical skills to work within an Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programme (ICAP) at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). The post is being offered as a 2 year fixed term contract to deliver an outpatient ICAP with a randomised control trial (RCT) in collaboration with University College London and City St George’s University.
The focus of this role is to provide neuropsychological therapeutic interventions for people with aphasia and their carers in the ICAP arm of the NIHR sponsored RCT. The key roles will be to design, deliver, and adapt evidence-based interventions for people with aphasia, systemic working with families, and work with the treating speech and language therapists especially when psychological and cognitive are present.
Main duties of the job
The post will play a key role in the leadership and development of the service and staff. The post offers exceptional opportunities to use specialist clinical skills and contribute to the research and teaching programmes within this highly specialised patient population. Applicants will have an opportunity to be involved in presenting results from the ICAP at conferences (e.g. BAS, UKSF, ESOC) and writing up for journals. The Division is fully committed to research and development and actively supports and funds the continuous professional development of its staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Neuropsychologist (ICAP treating team) with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £75,328 - £86,114 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Pro rata). The contract type is Fixed term: 24 months (Limited funding). The application deadline is 13 Oct 2026.
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