Clinical Psychologist in Neuropsychology/ Neuropsychologist

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric Neuropsychology Service within Psychological Health Services at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. You will be part of a well-established, highly specialist team, working across paediatric neuroscience pathways with a varied caseload.

The service supports children and young people with neurological injury or illness, contributing to specialist pathways including epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation, neuro-oncology, major trauma, and neurorehabilitation. The role offers flexibility to shape aspects of the post in line with your interests, experience, and service needs.

We are seeking a clinician with a strong commitment to developing specialist neuropsychology practice. This may include post-qualification training, working towards or on the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN), supervised practice, and/or relevant research (doctoral or PhD level).

The post is ideally appointed at Band 8a; however, applications from experienced Band 7 Clinical Psychologists with relevant neuropsychology experience and commitment to progression are encouraged.

You will receive specialist supervision from a qualified clinical neuropsychologist, making this an excellent opportunity for those working towards SRCN entry. We also welcome applications from qualified paediatric or adult neuropsychologists seeking paediatric experience.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist clinical psychology and neuropsychology assessment, formulation and intervention for children and young people referred to the Paediatric Neuropsychology Service.
• To contribute to inpatient specialist paediatric neuroscience pathways, deliver psychological interventions and input into general outpatient activity.
• To provide consultation, work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and the wider professional network around the child or young person.
• To contribute to service development, teaching, supervision, research, audit and quality improvement within Psychological Health Services.
• To support psychologically informed care for children, young people and families across the pathways served by the paediatric neuropsychology team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, including cognitive assessment where indicated, for children and young people with neurological presentations.
• Develop and communicate highly specialist neuropsychological formulations.
• Provide evidence-based psychological and neuropsychological interventions for children, young people and families, delivered directly and indirectly as appropriate.
• Contribute towards multidisciplinary inpatient ward-based care of patients and their families.
• Support transition planning and liaison with education and community services where relevant.
• Develop and evaluate direct and indirect clinical services for the young people cared for by the service, in collaboration with other team members and user of the service.
• Work closely with medical, nursing, allied health professional and psychosocial colleagues across paediatric neuroscience services.
• Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• Provide clear and high quality reports for families, schools, referrers and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Liaise with primary and secondary health care, including mental health, services throughout the geographical areas covered by the teams to enable continuous and coordinated psychological support, as appropriate.
• Communicate information in the desired format, recognising the need to adapt communication style to accommodate the recipient as appropriate.