Lead Assistant Psychologist

Job summary
The Department of Neuropsychology at Southmead Hospital is seeking an experienced Assistant Psychologist to take up a senior role within our assistant psychology team. You will coordinate the day-to-day work of the team and support the neuropsychologists with complex patient work, including neurosurgical investigations such as functional MRI and sEEG language mapping. You will need at least a year's experience as an Assistant Psychologist in a neuropsychology assessment service.

Main duties of the job
You will conduct neuropsychological assessments with inpatients and outpatients, score and collate the data, and present it alongside your behavioural observations to the supervising Clinical Neuropsychologist. You will run functional MRI sessions independently, liaising directly with Radiology, and support sEEG language mapping alongside the neuropsychologist, neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist. You will travel to Sulis Hospital in Bath to carry out inpatient assessment around our normal pressure hydrocephalus clinics. Alongside clinical work, you will help organise assessment schedules across the assistant psychologist team, assist with training our Band 4 assistants, maintain the clinical database and test inventory, and contribute to audit and research. You will be supervised throughout by a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, and supported to plan your own development.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for the full range of duties and responsibilities. The post holder provides clinical and technical support to the Clinical Neuropsychologists so that their time and skills are used optimally, and as the senior Assistant Psychologist in the team uses the clinical judgement gained through prior experience to work with complex patients, sometimes with a short turnaround where inpatient results are needed quickly. Responsibilities span assessment and patient support, independent working within the neurosurgical investigation pathways, day-to-day coordination and training of the assistant psychologist group and data and information management. There may be opportunities for audit and research support, and contribution to service development. The post is based at Southmead Hospital with regular travel to Sulis Hospital, Bath.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential

• Bachelor level qualification in Psychology at 2:1 or higher
• Experience as an Assistant Psychologist in a neuropsychology assessment service

Desirable

• MSc in Neuropsychology
• Experience of supporting neurosurgical investigations such as fMRI or sEEG language mapping
• Experience of supervising or training less experienced staff or students

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer.