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Location
North East England | United Kingdom
Job description
Are you an outstanding Consultant Practitioner Psychologist or Neuro Psychologist with a passion for delivering high quality care? Cygnet have been providing a national network of specialist mental health services for more than 30 years. They provide neuropsychiatric services to people with neurological conditions, mental health issues and behaviour that challenges in 7 different sites across the United Kingdom. With us, youll have the chance to progress your career as part of a dynamic, supportive team. We need a Consultant Practitioner or Neuro Psychologist whos passionate about helping people with a range of complex mental health needs to join our team in our female neuropsychiatric service, at Cygnet Newham House. This role is a part time vacancy, working 16-20 hours per week. Maximising positive outcomes & recovery for ourpatientsits a challenging, satisfying vocation. So if you care about making a difference every day we want to hear from you. Cygnet Newham House: Cygnet Newham House is our Neuropsychiatric care and treatment facility for women, a first for Cygnet, comprising 20 beds. There is a full multidisciplinary team at Newham House including neuropsychiatry, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, activity co-ordinators nursing staff and support workers. The team at Cygnet Newham House are very welcoming and the psychology service is well respected and positively supported. Your Day-to-Day At Cygnet Newham House, you will be overseeing the psychology service and providing supervision to the on-site psychology team at Newham House, comprising a qualified psychologist and an assistant psychologist. Trainee Psychologists have previously been on successful placements at Newham House. Some of the support worker staff have previously worked in the role of behaviour champion and attended monthly meetings to support patients with behaviour that challenges. The unit uses a positive behaviour support model, with ABC charts and incident management systems in place to support the functional assessment of behaviour. There will be opportunities to carry out cognitive assessment, neuro-rehabilitation, capacity assessment, risk assessment and psychological therapy. Cygnet has 7 neuropsychiatry services across the country, each of which has at least one qualified psychologist/neuropsychologist on site. Psychologists at these sites form the national neuropsychology team. The national team has monthly governance meetings to discuss best practice guidelines, support standardised practice and share clinical cases. There is a consultant neuropsychologist already in post within the national neuropsychology team. The national neuropsychology team have a variety of training in skills in areas such as forensic psychology, trauma therapy and EMDR, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Some members of the team are being supported to complete Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology and are currently undertaking the knowledge component. Your role will be to: Oversee and co-ordinate the psychology service at Cygnet Newham House. Provide line management and supervision to the psychologist and assistant on site Provide line management and supervision to other psychologists in the national neuropsychology department. Contribute to the Cygnet national neuropsychology department through attending and chairing meetings, presenting case studies, supporting the development of standardised practice, leading/contributing to service development projects, service related research and promoting positive governance practices. Positively contribute to the multidisciplinary team at Cygnet Newham House Carry out psychological assessments & provide therapy to individuals & groups. Support Cygnet Newham House to implement the positive behaviour support approach to managing residents, including providing staff support and training and ensuring all residents at Cygnet Newham House have an up to date positive behaviour support plan that is reflective of their needs. Collaboratively develop care plans, risk assessments and risk management measures with the MDT. Provide training & supervision to colleagues, and consultation to teams. Evaluate the local and national neuropsychology/neuropsychiatry service, contribute to its development & carry out clinical research. Disseminate outcomes via conference presentations and publications. We are looking for someone who is... A HCPC registered Practitioner or Neuro Psychologist, ideally with experience of working in a neuro
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£30k - £37.5k per annum
