# Clinical Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £66,274 to £73,496 per annum
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced clinical psychologist / neuropsychologist to join the Rapid Access to Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) Team at our Denmark Hill site. The RAAR team provides specialist, intensive rehabilitation for patients with a wide range of conditions, including brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other neurological or major trauma conditions during their acute admission to hospital, for up to six weeks.

The successful candidate will lead the Rapid Access to Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) Team psychology service at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at the Denmark Hill site. They will provide specialist assessment, consultancy, and intervention of patients' neuropsychology needs for patients admitted to the RAAR service across the inpatient wards as clinically indicated.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing direct highly specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention to adult inpatients within the RAAR service

- Formulating and implementing psychologically based treatment and management plans specific to each patient

- Selecting and delivering evidence-based specialist psychological treatments, monitoring outcome, and modifying and adapting interventions

- Providing highly specialist expertise, advice, and consultation on patients' psychological care to other members of the RAAR service and the wider multidisciplinary team

- Assessing and monitoring risk and drawing up appropriate risk management plans

- Contributing to patient care and flow through intervention and liaison with family, carers, and agencies involved in care planning and implementation

The post-holder will also be responsible for:

- Providing clinical and professional leadership to a team of qualified members of staff and assistants

- Attending relevant meetings as a representative of the RAAR team and advising on service developments in line with government policy development

- Leading on implementation of local clinical governance initiatives for the service, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, and day-to-day operations of the service

The salary for this post is £66,274 to £73,496 per annum, inclusive of HCA.

**Person Specification:**

- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology

- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical Psychologist)

- Eligibility for chartered status with the BPS

- Post-doctoral training or qualification in clinical neuropsychology (e.g., QiCN or equivalent)

- Substantial post-qualification experience of working within a neuropsychology setting

- Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature

## Skills

### Required
- clinical psychology
- neuropsychology
- evidence-based practice
- clinical governance
- leadership
- communication skills

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