LIVABILITY
ICANHO, THE SUFFOLK BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION SERVICE
JOB DESCRIPTION
1. JOB TITLE:
Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist with special
responsibilities for research (psychology department)
LOCATION:
Icanho, The Suffolk Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre
GRADE:
Livability Grade F
HOURS:
22.5 hours per week
2. PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
To assist with and support the planning and development of a service wide ethos of
research and publication.
To develop and establish a programme of psychological research and publication from
Icanho.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines.
To establish good working links with, and to act as a highly specialist resource in respect
of ABI services to, the wider professional community.
To assist with and support the planning and development of the service by providing
advice about the psychological literature and its implications for service development.
3. POSITION IN ORGANISATION:
This Post is accountable to: The Manager
This Post reports to:
The Head of Psychological Services / Consultant Clinical
Psychologist
The following posts report directly to this post:
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Clinical psychologist
Assistant Psychologist
Volunteer as directed
4. MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Service Provision:
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To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to Icanho
based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological
data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or
management of a client’s psychological problems.
To work with individuals, groups, and families.
To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological
assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
To participate in interdisciplinary and multiagency meetings concerning the delivery and
development of clinical services for clients.
To provide highly specialist psychological consultation, supervision and support to other
team members about the psychological management of Icanho clients.
To provide highly specialist psychological consultation, supervision and support to the
Rehabilitation Team Coordinators / Clinical Service Leads about the psychological
management of clients with complex needs.
To provide highly specialist consultation, assessment and treatment to clients with
complex needs.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide
advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk
management.
Leadership and Management:
To be responsible for the development of a programme of high quality psychological
research within Icanho.
To provide highly specialist consultation, supervision and support to other team
members to develop an ethos and practice of service wide publication and research.
To advise management about resources available to the service to develop an ethos of
research and publication.
To exercise responsibility and professional judgement for the appropriate and safe use
of specialist psychological equipment including the appropriate systems of stock control.
To advise and participate in the recruitment of psychology staff at Icanho.
To be involved, as appropriate and in conjunction with manager, in the recruitment and
selection of staff in other disciplines.
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Strategy, policy & service development:
To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and
accessible service for clients, their carers and families within Icanho, including advising
the manager and rehabilitation team co-ordinators / clinical service leads on those
aspects of the service where psychological matters need addressing.
To initiate and participate in service developments and projects within the Icanho
Service.
To take the lead in maintaining the high quality psychological research with the Icanho
Service.
Education and training
To develop and take part in educational sessions for carers, families and other services
and agencies as required.
To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based
framework for understanding and care of clients through the provision of advice and
consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from an expert with appropriate
experience and, where appropriate other senior professional colleagues in line with
British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines.
To participate in appraisal, case reviews and peer support.
To take an active role in the process of CPD, to include maintaining a personal CPD log.
To participate in the provision of post-qualification training (CPD) to recently qualified
clinical psychologists.
To continue to develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-qualification
training and clinical supervision in accordance with BPS guidelines.
To gain additional highly specialist experience, knowledge and skills relevant to clinical
psychology and neuropsychology in line with the needs and BPS policy on CPD.
Communication:
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor
progress during the course of both uni- and multi and interdisciplinary care.
To ensure a high standard of communication with carers, families, local mental health
services, other agencies and PCT’s involved with the service.
To maintain excellent communication with other members of Icanho staff.
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To develop and maintain good links with other clinical psychologists in East and West
Suffolk, regionally, nationally an internationally.
Administration:
To maintain the highest standard of clinical record keeping.
To ensure that your psychology reports are written in a timely manner that reflects highly
specialist knowledge and skill.
To use computer based tools of analysis, spread sheets, data bases and statistical
packages as necessary.
To ensure accurate information for data collection
Resources:
To be responsible for maintaining an up to date knowledge of research resources within
Icanho.
Research and development:
To be aware of relevant development and research in the field of brain injury
rehabilitation locally, nationally and internationally.
To support the development of research within the psychology department and within
the wider service of Icanho.
To use theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based
practice in their work.
To engage in practice development, evaluation and audit activities to promote evidence
based practice.
To use appropriate outcome measures in order to evaluate the effectiveness and quality
of psychology provision.
To provide advice to other professionals as appropriate on research design and
methodology.
General:
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To comply with all Livability Health and Safety policies in order to ensure that
a safe working environment is maintained for clients, carers staff and visitors.
To be aware of current legislation, e.g. Protection of Vulnerable Adults, The
Disability Discrimination Act and their relevance to practice.
5. THIS POST COMMUNICATES WITH:
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(a) Internal:
all personnel within the Centre
(b) External: Personnel from:
PCTs
Social Care Services
Housing Departments
Education Services
Employment Services
Voluntary / 3rd Sector Organisations
Private Organisations
Lawyers and independent case managers
Local community resources as required.
Other NHS and Voluntary Sector Mental Health Services.
6. OTHER INFORMATION
Visits will be required to client’s homes, local communities and to complex case reviews
in out of county centers.
7. JOB HOLDER’S SIGNATURE
MANAGER’S SIGNATURE
DATE
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reflect every task or responsibility which may be asked of the Job Holder. If responsibilities alter
significantly a new Job Description must be completed and submitted for re-evaluation as soon as
possible.
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