Job Opportunity: Neuropsychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of neuropsychologists, assistant psychologists, and undergraduate placement students delivering a regional and supra-regional adult and paediatric neuropsychological service in a specialist neurosciences centre. The post-holder will have/develop a sub-specialty interest in epilepsy surgery and awake craniotomy surgery for brain tumours, and will have a primary responsibility for providing a service to those teams. The post holder will also undertake specialist neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, and therapy of patients with neurological and neurosurgical conditions and to their families and carers, referred by neurologists, gerontologists, psychiatrists, general practitioners, and others, both from within Oxford University Hospitals Trust and externally.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide expert neuropsychological and rehabilitation assessments of patients, based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care.
• Make highly skilled evaluations about treatment options including elective surgery in conjunction with the MDT, taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, psychometric data, and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
• Administer a range of highly specialised neuropsychological and psychometric tests assessing cognitive functions and emotional wellbeing, including setting up and manipulating materials involving fine motor dexterity; conducting prolonged observations of clients’ abilities, emotional state, and behaviour during neuropsychological examinations with commensurate recording, documentation, and appropriate dissemination of clinical findings and opinion.