Psychologist in Neuropsychological rehabilitation of Stroke

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, caring and skilled psychologist to fill a new full time position within the Lewisham Stroke Team.

To provide a specialist clinical neuropsychology service for the Stroke service within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. To work autonomously within professional guidelines. To provide a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community, teaching and to undertake research activities.  To provide advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients to non-psychologist colleagues, to support and embed skills-development of psychologically informed ways of working and the use of self-management approaches across the team. To carry out audit policy, propose and implement service development changes within the department.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist clinical neuropsychology service for the Stroke service within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. To work autonomously within professional guidelines. To provide a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community, teaching and to undertake research activities.  To provide advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients to non-psychologist colleagues, to support and embed skills-development of psychologically informed ways of working and the use of self-management approaches across the team. To carry out audit policy, propose and implement service development changes within the department.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 1.        Provision of highly developed specialist clinical neuropsychological assessments of inpatients and outpatients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care. 2.        Integration of neuropsychological data, behavioural observation and specialist neurology medical knowledge to make highly skilled evaluations in the formulation of clinical neuropsychological diagnosis of patient’s problems within evidence based neuropsychological conceptual framework. 3.        Provision of clinical neuropsychological diagnosis, where formulation of diagnosis to be used as part of treatment management decisions. 4.        Provision of specialist neuropsychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (Stroke Consultants, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, nurses, etc.) patients and their carers, contributing directly to patient’s diagnosis and treatment management. 5.        To provide expertise and advice to all members of the Stroke MDT to facilitate the effective and appropriate treatment of patients in the context of the neuropsychological status of the patient. 6.        To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the neuropsychological assessment, formulation of neuropsychological diagnosis and its impact on the patients daily life including issues of fitness to work and fitness to drive, to patients, their carers, medical consultant and other members of the multidisciplinary team. 7.        To provide consultation on neuropsychological aspects of patient’s management to staff and agencies inside and outside of the Stroke Unit at LGT.