Job overview
Clinical Psychologist - 8A - Fixed Term 12 months - Maternity Cover - 30 Hours.
The post is based in the Stockport Community Neuro Rehab team (CNRS). We are an innovative team who are focused on working with people who have a range of neurological presentations, including stroke, life limiting conditions, head injuries, and functional neurological disorders. We are seeking a psychologist with experience of working with this client population, who is passionate about excellent patient care and promoting psychological understanding and support in an interdisciplinary setting. Applications are welcome from both current band 7/8a and newly qualified psychologists. Psychologists in the team offer assessment, formulation and treatment for patients, working closely with occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language and nursing colleagues to form an MDT provision. Your role will be to provide psychologically informed support through individual and group-based clinical work as well as supporting the team through consultation and team formulation.
Main duties of the job
A successful applicant would deliver psychological provision within the Community Neurorehabilitation service here in Stockport NHS Trust, an integrated community stroke and neurorehabilitation team. The post-holder will enjoy a broad and stimulating range of clinical work, both directly with service users and their carers/families and indirectly through consultation, training, supervision and service development. Given the breadth of the service, an excellent range of neurorehabilitation experience will be available (including acquired brain injuries, progressive and degenerative conditions and functional neurological disorders). To be employed at an 8A level, it is expected that you will have completed at least one year of the Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Clinical Neuropsychology. We would also be happy to receive applications from clinicians without this level of experience but, if successful, they would be appointed on as a Band 7,
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be based in the Community Neuro-rehabilitation Service (CNRS) in Stockport, an integrated service for people who have experienced a stroke or who have a neurological condition. The post holder will support the Psychology Team in providing a high-quality specialist psychology and neuropsychology service, working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
Key duties
To provide psychological assessment and therapy to service users, carers and families, aiming to promote adjustment, coping and self-management and reduce distress, to clients at various stages of their condition, from soon after onset, to long term coping or end of life issues.
To collaborate with colleagues in shaping the service practice around cognitive screening, and undertake specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention, to promote understanding and adaptation of clients, families and other professionals.
To offer support/consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and supervision to assistant and trainee psychologists as appropriate.
To deliver training to colleagues, carers or broader staff on a range of psychology-related topics, and/or to deliver group work to clients or other professionals.
To collaborate on and implement service developments, and contribute to the establishment and delivery of a high-quality service, such as around triage, psychological screening, prioritising a limited resource and effective evaluation.
To build good relationships both within the team and externally, such as liaising with mental health services, referrers and stakeholders.
To gain knowledge about assessment relating to other service disciplines, to play a role as a core member of the service, and contribute to general service tasks.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.
If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this, it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- • Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised neuropsychological and psychological rehabilitation, including ways of working with people with complex disabilities.
- • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- • Knowledge of cognitive assessment and screening, as relevant to this service
Experience
Essential
- • Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings.
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity 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 consultation, training and/or supervision for non-psychologist staff in psychological aspects of physical illness/disability.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- • Collaborative style in working, with excellent skills in establishing relationships with patients and colleagues.
Work related circumstances
Essential
- • Occupational Health Clearance.
- • Car owner/driver, to have access to a car for work purposes.
Education and Qualification
Essential
- • Doctoral qualification in clinical or other applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- • Registration with the Health Professionals Council
Desirable
- • Post-doctoral training and qualifications relevant to clinical neuropsychology, relevant psychological therapies, supervision, research methodology, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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This advert is for Clinical Psychologist with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover). The application deadline is 05 Aug 2026.
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