# Practitioner Psychologist in Neuropsychology > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practitioner-psychologist-in-neuropsychology/b5eb4a52-6c07-4a2b-9ea4-71fa720767ab - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practitioner-psychologist-in-neuropsychology/b5eb4a52-6c07-4a2b-9ea4-71fa720767ab.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** per annum inc. HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8:30 - 4:30 or 9 - 5) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T13:51:44.512Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Practitioner_Psychologist_Neuropsychologist/Practitioner_Psychologist_Neuropsychologist-v8014332 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8014332?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Looking for a supported role to develop your neuropsychology skills? Come and join the Guys & St Thomas’ Community Neuropsychology team in Southwark & Lambeth. We work within Stroke and Neurorehabilitation services to provide a clinical service across the rehabilitation pathway from inpatient to community settings. You will have the opportunity to hone your skills in neuropsychological assessment and therapeutic work for people with a range of newly acquired and long term neurological conditions. You will work closely with other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues, in a service that supports all members to be engaged with research and innovation. You will join a supportive neuropsychology team with an 8c Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, 8a Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Psychologists and Trainees. We welcome applications from trainees who will be qualifying in 2026 and there will be opportunities to work across different streams of the service according to your development needs. ### Main duties of the job You will be providing specialist psychological & neuropsychological assessment and treatment for clients within the 6-bedded inpatient Level 2b service based at the Pulross Centre in Brixton, working embedded within the MDT and supported closely by the Consultant lead. You will also hold a caseload of clients living in the community which may include clients with stroke & acquired brain injuries, long term and progressive neurological conditions, and functional neurological conditions. Alongside 1:1 interventions, you will also use assessment findings and specialist knowledge to provide guidance and consultation to support neurorehabilitation and psychological care by all members of the MDT. You will have supervisory responsibilities, service-related research and development goals. We facilitate and support a variety of teaching and group interventions within the service, with opportunities to develop these further. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see Job Description for further details. Key duties are: - To provide specialist psychological & neuropsychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. - To formulate and evaluate treatment options in a neurorehabilitation context taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning illness, historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. - To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments and rehabilitation interventions. - To use assessment findings and specialist knowledge to provide neuropsychological and psychological guidance and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the MDT. - To support and enable all staff working in the wider Neurorehabilitation Service to better meet the needs of complex neurological clients with psychological, cognitive, mental health or behavioural problems through CPD initiatives and consultation guidance where there may be issues of risk. ## Job Details Looking for a supported role to develop your neuropsychology skills? Come and join the Guys & St Thomas’ Community Neuropsychology team in Southwark & Lambeth. We work within Stroke and Neurorehabilitation services to provide a clinical service across the rehabilitation pathway from inpatient to community settings. You will have the opportunity to hone your skills in neuropsychological assessment and therapeutic work for people with a range of newly acquired and long term neurological conditions. You will work closely with other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues, in a service that supports all members to be engaged with research and innovation. You will join a supportive neuropsychology team with an 8c Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, 8a Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Psychologists and Trainees. We welcome applications from trainees who will be qualifying in 2026 and there will be opportunities to work across different streams of the service according to your development needs. ## Job Description You will be providing specialist psychological & neuropsychological assessment and treatment for clients within the 6-bedded inpatient Level 2b service based at the Pulross Centre in Brixton, working embedded within the MDT and supported closely by the Consultant lead. You will also hold a caseload of clients living in the community which may include clients with stroke & acquired brain injuries, long term and progressive neurological conditions, and functional neurological conditions. Alongside 1:1 interventions, you will also use assessment findings and specialist knowledge to provide guidance and consultation to support neurorehabilitation and psychological care by all members of the MDT. You will have supervisory responsibilities, service-related research and development goals. We facilitate and support a variety of teaching and group interventions within the service, with opportunities to develop these further. ## Responsibilities Please see Job Description for further details. Key duties are: ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to effective team functioning **Desirable** - Knowledge of the use of specialised psychological therapies for chronic health and/ or neurological conditions ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with a client group of adults presenting with acquired neurological difficulties. - Experience of undertaking and interpreting neuropsychological assessments and writing reports based on the results - Experience of teaching, training other professionals in psychological concepts **Desirable** - Experience of working within a neurorehabilitation setting - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment, working within an interdisciplinary care plan ### Qualifications **Essential** - Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS) ## Documents - [jd band 7 psychologist gstt community stroke & neurorehab (pdf, 264.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10300467) - [ps band 7 psychologist gstt community stroke & neurorehab (pdf, 144.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10300468) - [functional role requirements band 7 psychologist community (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10300469) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.