About this role
Job summary
Looking for a supported role to develop your neuropsychology skills? Come and join the Guys & St Thomas' Community Neuropsychology team in Southwark & Lambeth. We work within Stroke and Neurorehabilitation services to provide a clinical service across the rehabilitation pathway from inpatient to community settings. You will have the opportunity to hone your skills in neuropsychological assessment and therapeutic work for people with a range of newly acquired and long term neurological conditions. You will work closely with other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues, in a service that supports all members to be engaged with research and innovation. You will join a supportive neuropsychology team with an 8c Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, 8a Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Psychologists and Trainees. We welcome applications from trainees who will be qualifying in 2026and there will be opportunities to work across different streams of the service according to your development needs.
Main duties of the job
You will be providing specialist psychological & neuropsychological assessment and treatment for clients within the 6-bedded inpatient Level 2b service based at the Pulross Centre in Brixton, working embedded within the MDT and supported closely by the Consultant lead. You will also hold a caseload of clients living in the community which may include clients with stroke & acquired brain injuries, long term and progressive neurological conditions, and functional neurological conditions. Alongside 1:1 interventions, you will also use assessment findings and specialist knowledge to provide guidance and consultation to support neurorehabilitation and psychological care by all members of the MDT. You will have supervisory responsibilities, service-related research and development goals. We facilitate and support a variety of teaching and group interventions within the service, with opportunities to develop these further.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
The Community Stroke & Neurorehabilitation Service is a large and well established MDT service including Neuropsychology, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehab Assistants, Rehab Consultant and Social Workers. We provide a combination of early responsive and intensive rehabilitation and long term condition management to support clients with neurological conditions to lead a meaningful independent life throughout the span of their condition. Working with a neurological caseload is never boring and challenges us to sometimes 'think outside the box', be flexible, adaptable and even inventive in our approach. We value space for team discussion and reflection and have a culture of supporting team wellbeing to enable us to provide a high quality service.
Guy's and St Thomas's (GSTT) Clinical Health Psychology teams are embedded across the organisation, with one of the largest staff teams in the country. Together with our partners at Kings College Hospital Neuropsychology Department, this post provides excellent opportunities for on-going professional development & networking opportunities across South East London.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description for further details. Key duties are:
To provide specialist psychological & neuropsychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. To formulate and evaluate treatment options in a neurorehabilitation context taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning illness, historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments and rehabilitation interventions. To use assessment findings and specialist knowledge to provide neuropsychological and psychological guidance and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the MDT. To support and enable all staff working in the wider Neurorehabilitation Service to better meet the needs of complex neurological clients with psychological, cognitive, mental health or behavioural problems through CPD initiatives and consultation guidance where there may be issues of risk.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
Experience Essential
Experience of working with a client group of adults presenting with acquired neurological difficulties. Experience of undertaking and interpreting neuropsychological assessments and writing reports based on the results Experience of teaching, training other professionals in psychological concepts
Desirable
Experience of working within a neurorehabilitation setting Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, working within an interdisciplinary care plan
Skills Essential
Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to effective team functioning
Desirable
Knowledge of the use of specialised psychological therapies for chronic health and/ or neurological conditions
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.
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Employer details Employer name Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Address Pulross Rehabilitation Centre
47a Pulross Road
London
SW9 8AE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)