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• To provide specialist neuropsychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
• To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients and their families to provide psychological treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
• To provide specialist neuropsychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
• To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
• To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
• To undertake responsibilities as a member of the multi-professional Community Rehabilitation Team, including attending team meetings.
• To liaise with specialist units around the country with whom Islington patients are placed, monitoring the rehabilitation programmes provided in the units and planning for discharge back to local services.
• To lead on the assessment and treatment of clients referred by the consultant neurologists at the Whittington Hospital.

Teaching, training, and supervision

• To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee psychologists and, where required, assistant psychologists.
• To continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision.
• To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or other applied psychologists, as appropriate.
• To provide supervision to other professional groups as appropriate (e.g. occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistants).
• Management, policy and service development.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services’ operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To manage the workloads of trainee psychologists and, where required, of assistant psychologists, within the framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.

Research and service evaluation

• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluate service provision.
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.