Come and join one of the UK's largest providers of complex care.
We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone. We are thrilled to invite a passionate Clinical Psychologist (equivalent to Band 7 or 8a) to join our mission-driven team at Active Care Group.
This is a unique opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of patients as they navigate their neurorehabilitation journey.
Working across our neurorehabilitation services in Blackheath and Chislehurst, both located in South East London, you will play a vital role in helping individuals rebuild their lives following an acquired brain injury and/or other complex neurological conditions.
At the heart of this role is the opportunity to contribute to our Active Care Group Neuro Network, a national collaboration of over 25 sites focused on innovation, clinical excellence, and technology, empowering patients to achieve their rehabilitation goals.
Your Impact: In this dual-site role, you will:
Provide expert care within our established and regionally renowned inpatient service at Blackheath, working as part of a highly specialist inter-disciplinary team.Support patients as they transition to our brand-new Chislehurst facility, a slow-stream, post-acute rehabilitation service designed to maximise recovery and independence.Champion a seamless and holistic care pathway, ensuring every patient's unique needs are met across different phases of rehabilitation.This is more than a job; it's a chance to be part of something bigger.
By joining our team, you'll be contributing to a shared mission: transforming lives through expert care!
What you'll be working: This role is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
The successful candidate will provide support to both sites, working 3-4 days at Blackheath and 1-2 days at Chislehurst.
We understand the importance of a positive work-life balance, and therefore, if you require some flexibility to better suit your personal or professional needs, we encourage you to discuss this with us, and we will do our best to accommodate your preferences where possible.
What you'll be doing: Provide specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention for inpatients with neurological conditions (such as head injury, cerebral tumours and stroke).Develop, implement and monitor the effectiveness of rehabilitation and condition management programmes for patients with neuropsychological disorders.Undertake assessment of capacity for individual patients and provide advice to other health professionals on psychological aspects of capacity assessment and appropriate means of enabling patients with reduced capacity to engage in informed decision making.Develop, implement and monitor formal psychological intervention plans for a patient's emotional difficulties.Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and provide advice to other health professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other health professionals contributing directly to patients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, formulation and clinical interventions with patients, seeking appropriate supervision for clinical decision making.Provide appropriate verbal and written symptom management advice to patients, their families or carers as appropriate.With appropriate supervision, maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with the BPS professional codes of practice and ACG policies and procedures.Keep people safe from any harm and protect their human rights.What you'll have: HCPC registration.Experience of clinical practice within a neurological service setting at a pre or post-qualification level.Well-developed communication skills and the ability to effectively deliver complex and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and colleagues.Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS.We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions.
To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.
What to look forward to: Free lunch when on duty at Blackheath.25 days plus bank holidays.Birthday off.Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e-learning and face-to-face training and development opportunities.Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop.Free 24-hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice.A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension.Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians.We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme.Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits.Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know.……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group.
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