South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Practitioner Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
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Clinical Psychologist Opportunity
This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to help lead our acquired brain injury and functional neurological disorder pathways.
You will provide specialist assessment and rehabilitation to adults who have experienced an acquired brain injury and those experiencing functional neurological disorder. The Lishman Unit provides in-depth, multidisciplinary assessments and rehabilitation interventions using a team goal-setting approach.
You will work with an already established multidisciplinary team who are highly specialised and dedicated to the service users they work with. There will be opportunities for you to collaborate with the team and the wider Neuropsychiatry pathway and will be a perfect platform to demonstrate leadership qualities. The role involves regular contact with the Ward Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to help ensure you feel confident and supported in your role, in addition to a Trust-wide Staff Support Service and networks to help you connect with others within SLaM.
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We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to senior practitioner psychologist roles across Specialist Services and in our services for adults with complex emotional needs.
About the Role
- Provide a specialist psychology service to the brain injury and functional neurological disorder MDTs within the Lishman Unit including specialist assessment, neurorehabilitation, therapy, planning, implementation, and monitoring of outcomes.
- Contribute to enabling other staff, service users, and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- Provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- Undertake service evaluation, audit, and research.
- Work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
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About our Location
The Lishman Unit has recently relocated from Bethlem Hospital to New Douglas Bennett House (NDBH) at Maudsley Hospital. The Lishman unit is a 15-bedded, national specialist unit offering assessment, formulation, and treatment for adults with complex neuropsychiatric needs relating to brain injury or functional neurological disorder.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient, and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr. Leigh Leppard
- Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: leigh.leppard@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 020 3228 2022
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