Senior Clinical Psychologist

Senior Clinical Psychologist

Permanent | Part time role covering 21 hours per week.
Location: Wales
Salary: up to £60,000 per annum pro rata.

Our well established client are looking for a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join their team on a permanent basis. 

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
• Complete pre-admission assessments, highly developing specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individual’s rehabilitation needs.
• Formulate and implement plans of highly specialist psychological and/or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurobehavioural rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice.
• Be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi/inter disciplinary assessment of service users and their families.
• Undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team.
• Exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own caseload.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Psychology accepted by BPS for Graduate Basis Registration (GBR) or equivalent.
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (BPS accredited) or its equivalent to meet requirements to register as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC.
• Registered with the HCPC.
• Demonstrate an interest in clinical neuropsychology.
• General knowledge of acquired brain injury pathology, neuroanatomy, symptoms, characteristics, course of recovery and rehabilitation approaches. This includes but is not limited to – traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and understanding the different types of strokes, encephalopathy, hypoxic brain injury, amongst others.
• At least 2 years’ experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a relevant clinical area.

To apply for the role, please send across your updated CV to (url removed) or contact Chloe on (phone number removed).

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