Assistant Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the CNCHP Department. We are looking for a highly motivated Assistant Psychologist within the department. The Department provide neuropsychology services in acute, tertiary, day/out-patient and community rehabilitation settings for clients with acquired neurological disorders, their families and carers. There is over forty psychological staff in the department working across a range of clinical care pathways within the Trust.

The post holders main duties will include supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of clients within the neuropsychological diagnostic service and neurorehabilitation service. The post holder will be providing neuropsychological assessment and neuropsychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical neuropsychologist. As well as working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified neuropsychologist and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. Other duties included assisting in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the current listed closing date if enough suitable applications are received.