Job Description
For questions about this job, contact:
Please contact us for more information or to arrange an informal visit:
Dr Catherine Derbyshire, Head of Neuropsychology, cderbyshire@nhs.net
or
Dr Rachel Dodds, Clinical psychologist in MND, rachel.dodds11@nhs.net
Please Note: All salaries listed reflect the pay for full time roles. Any part time roles will be pro rata.
Job Summary
Senior Clinical Psychologist (Neuropsychology 1.0 WTE) - AfC Band 8a – 4 years fixed term
Post funded by the Motor Neuron Disease Association.
Department of Clinical & Health Psychology
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Could you help us shape the psychological care of people living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) across West Yorkshire?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical Psychologist to develop a service working into MND teams across West Yorkshire, building on a previous successful pilot which was also funded by the MND association. The post holder will work into MND teams within Mid Yorkshire, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Airedale and Bradford NHS Trusts to provide dedicated psychological care to patients living with MND. You will be an integral member of the Neuropsychology Service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, providing you with a professional base, supervision, continuing professional development and links with colleagues working across neurological conditions. You will also work closely with the regional MND service at the Rob Burrow Centre, helping to strengthen psychological care across the wider regional pathway.
Why you should join our Team
MND brings profound psychological challenges for people living with the condition. Psychological care therefore needs to respond flexibly as people's physical, cognitive, emotional and family circumstances change.
Working as an integral member of the MND multidisciplinary teams, you will provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological input across the course of the illness. Your work will include:
- supporting emotional adjustment to progressive disability and life-limiting illness
- assessment and management of anxiety and depression associated with MND
- supporting patients and families with decision-making at critical points in illness progression
- monitoring and assessment of cognitive and behavioural change
- providing complex psychological and neuropsychological formulation to inform MDT care
- providing consultation, education and psychological support to colleagues within the wider healthcare team.
What you will bring to the role
This is a role in which psychological thinking can make an important contribution not only through direct clinical work, but through formulation, consultation and supporting the MDT to understand and respond to the psychological, cognitive, behavioural and relational consequences of MND.
The role available is full time, however we would consider part time working.
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Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.