Principal Psychologist
Job Title Principal Psychologist
Location Liverpool
Job Type Permanent
Speciality Principal Psychologist
Rates £21,267 - £24800 per annum

Description

Your responsibilities will include: • ensuring the provision and development of high quality, innovative, and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice. • providing specialist psychological assessment of our service users, using psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, structured observations and interviews; - formulating and implementing specialist psychological treatment plans for mental health and adjustment difficulties based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice; • contributing highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and supervising their implementation; - undertaking psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and advising team members appropriately; • participating in multidisciplinary team meetings concerned with the delivery and development of clinical services; - Supporting Service Managers/Regional Managers in all aspects of managing the service and to report to the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist. What are we looking for? • The successful applicant will have a doctorate in clinical psychology (or equivalent) accredited by the BPS. It is essential that you are able to gather, analyse and interpret complex multi-factorial clinical information, and formulate this so as to effectively direct team working. • We are looking for an individual who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to deal with complex and emotive subjects. • You will have excellent organisation skills, the ability to prioritise workloads, the ability to administer and interpret a range of psychometric tests, and a track record of conducting clinical research or audit. • We are looking for a clinical psychologist with experience in neurorehabilitation, an interest in neuropsychology, and motivated to develop an excellent service further.