Job description

Job responsibilities

Takes responsibility for neuropsychology provision within the Awake Craniotomy and Neurooncology ServiceIs expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex presentations within the Awake Craniotomy and Neurooncology Service.Is required to provide management and supervision of recently qualified clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.Will be expected to develop and innovate methods in service provision for people with primary brain tumours and to support staff, relatives and, were appropriate, other services in providing care to this group of patients.Providing specialist neuropsychological and clinical psychological assessment, formulation and therapy, including awake craniotomyOffering advice and consultation on patients neuropsychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Person Specification

Essential requirements

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
• HCPC Registration
• Eligible for registration for the British Psychological Society Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
• Post qualification experience of working with people with neurological conditions
• Experience of specialist neuropsychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, and in-patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of people with neurological and /or genetic conditions, with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Has a significant amount of consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist neuropsychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients in health care services
• Has a significant amount of consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist neuropsychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients in health care services
• Skills in the use of complex methods of neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, relatives and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Demonstrable skills in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• The post holder has completed further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for Doctoral trainees and maintains these skills through regular training updates
• The post holder will have received a substantive number of years of clinical supervision (post qualification).
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Has demonstrable skills in waiting list management.
• Has evidence of learning and development in relation to leadership/management
• Has knowledge of good practice in recruitment and retention
• Has skills in audit, clinical governance and resource management
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of neuropsychological and psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of neuropsychological and psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat 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 teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Computer literate - competent use of email/internet
• Computer literate - competent use of email/internet

Desirable

• Post graduate experience in Neurooncology
• Knowledge and experience of awake craniotomy surgery.
• Has a track record of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Victoria Infirmary

317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary

NE1 4LP

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us (Opens in a new tab)