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Looking for a new job for 2026 in a fabulous city? We have an opportunity for a the lead psychologist in community stroke services. This is a permanent 8b role (0.8wte) working across the Community stroke pathway (inpatient rehab unit, community stroke psychology service & community stroke psychology outpatient service). The successful applicant will join the stroke psychology team (qualified, assistants and trainees) & will be an integral part of the wider MDT. This post contributes to the development of stroke psychology locally, regionally and nationally.
As well as delivering a clinical psychology (both therapy and neuropsychology) service to stroke patients & their families, the post-holder supervises psychological professionals and leads on quality improvement initiatives. There may be opportunities for further training e.g. Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology.
As part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership. The OA&NC department are a group of psychologists working into a range of settings (older adult mental health, dementia, stroke, brain injury, long term neurological conditions), allowing you access to a wealth of experience (CBT accredited supervisors, neuropsychology supervision, EMDR trained psychologists).
Please contact Dr Shonagh Scott, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Head of Service for more information: [email protected]; 0114 2263131
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to service users of the community stroke pathway, which includes SPARC rehabilitation wards, Community Stroke Service and Stroke Psychology Outpatient Service
To provide specialist neuropsychological assessment and interventions. To offer highly specialised advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to psychologist & non-psychologist colleagues alike, and to non-professional (informal) carers. In common with all Clinical Psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice.
To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals. The postholder is responsible for the co–ordination and organisation of the work of other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically informed care and treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide highly specialist neuropsychological assessment and interventions to service users referred to the community stroke pathway. This will be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the person’s care.
- To assess , formulate and identify the relevant treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
- To work on a daily basis in face-to-face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and sometimes distressing psychological problems.
- To be responsible for implementing an appropriate range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about neuropsychological assessment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning cultural, historical, developmental processes and acquired disabilities that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Person specification
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Essential
- • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and co-ordinate that of others
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to co-ordinate to that of others
- • Ability to exercise judgement when presented with highly complex facts or situations requiring the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
Desirable
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Knowledge
Essential
- • Well-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in providing highly specialised consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- • Evidence of significant continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
- • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies/psychosocial interventions in specific complex groups including stroke and other neurological conditions.
- • Evidence of significant experience working within specialist older adult or physical health services, specifically including stroke services.
Experience
Essential
- • Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings. Including experience of working with clients with stroke, other neurological conditions
- • Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive
- • Significant experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- • Significant evidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams
- • Significant further training/experience normally through clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist
- • Experience of providing teaching and/or training
- • Experience of providing clinical supervision
Desirable
- • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- • Experience of the application of (neuro)psychology in different cultural contexts.
Qualifications
Essential
- • Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
- • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- • Additional qualification in Neuropsychology
- • Additional, post-qualification short courses.
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This advert is for Principal Clinical Psychologist with Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Aug 2026.
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