Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist - Colchester, United Kingdom - Priory Healthcare

Priory Healthcare

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Colchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Elm Park:

Priory group is one of the UK's leading provider of independent specialist secure and step-down services for people with mental illness, personality disorders, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and brain injuries.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR TALENTED PEOPLE LIKE YOU
Knowing that you're making a difference to people's lives is rewarding in itself. But our many roles offer much more than that.

As well as helping you grow and develop your talent, we want you to feel proud of where you work and what you do.

Location:

Priory Brain Injury Services (PBIS) provide specialised care pathways within the Priory for people with acquired brain injury (ABI).

PBIS has been successfully delivering neurobehavioral rehabilitation and making a positive difference to people's lives since 1985 to people with ABI, whose challenging behaviour prevents attainment of their maximum rehabilitation potential and personal autonomy.

Elm Park is a 17 bedded Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit in Ardleigh which specialises in the assessment, care and treatment of adult residents (18+ years) with an acquired brain injury.

The main unit is also linked to Elm House and Elm Cottage which offer open community rehabilitation services for men and women with a traumatic or acquired brain injury.

We are looking for a HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologist with preferably brain injury experience.

Main Duties:

To undertake specialist clinical duties contributing to assessment and treatment of patients.
To provide Psychological Therapies for with personality disorder /mental disorder/intellectual disability and complex trauma, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of patients with complex presentations, formulating plans for treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based on appropriate analysis, interpretation, and integration of complex qualitative and quantitative data.
To administer and interpret assessments of cognitive and emotional functioning as required and to assist the multidisciplinary team in diagnosis, problem formulation and the planning/development of an appropriate treatment plan.
To plan, implement, and evaluate individual and group treatments, informed by formulations of patients' problems based on appropriate theoretical and therapeutic models and best practice guidelines.

Essential

You will be registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist and preferably be BPS Chartered.
You will have experience of and/or an interest in rehabilitation and the recovery of patients in a forensic setting.

Desirable

To have clinical supervision training.
To have training in two or more distinct psychological therapies.
To have skills in individual and group work and in program planning.
To have skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment to inform the psychological formulation and intervention.
To have well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.