Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Paediatric Neuropsychologist, or an Educational or Clinical Psychologist, with experience in leading interdisciplinary neuropsychological rehabilitation to take up this 0.4 WTE leadership role at the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (the CCPNR). The CCPNR is the regional, specialist, interdisciplinary community neurorehabilitation service for children and young people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) in the East of England.



In addition to supporting the everyday delivery of the service for children, young people and their families (through working with and providing supervision for the interdisciplinary team) the role includes the liaison and management of commissioning across the paediatric neuro-rehabilitation pathway from acute to community.



The service was established in 2009 and is now part of an integrated pathway working with teams at Cambridge University Hospitals. The team works closely with community teams as well as specialist services such as Youth Justice.



As a neuropsychology led service, the understanding of a young person's injury to their brain is at the core of the interdisciplinary formulation and intervention. The role is to bring together the expertise from neurology, psychiatry, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, clinical psychology and educational psychology in the assessment and intervention for children and young people with ABI.



The post holder will work closely with the Lead for Paediatric Neuropsychology Services at CPFT and the Lead for Paediatric Neurorehabilitation at CUH in developing the regional pathways for children with ABI.

Service evaluation and research are a core part of the role:

The service has close links with training courses at the University of East Anglia and is invested in continuing to build the evidence base for children with ABI.

Job plan:

On appointment, all roles will have a job plan agreed with line manager to ensure the roles are met. The job plan will form part of supervision, job planning and appraisal processes.



Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.



Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.



To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.



Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.



Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.



For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk



Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.



To build on existing relationships with commissioners across the East of England to develop pathways for children with acquired brain injury in accordance with the NHSE rehabilitation guidance and service specifications.



Management of commissioning across the paediatric neurorehabilitation pathway from acute to community in collaboration with those working from the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, the interdisciplinary team on the ward and to support discharge planning in liaison with the different East of England commissioners and transition into the community.



To provide paediatric neuropsychological leadership for the interdisciplinary team at the CCPNR, supporting with complex formulations and through the provision of supervision of the individual team members.



To formulate plans for the neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of children's needs in collaboration with the interdisciplinary teams, across the full range of care settings and in collaboration with the child, young person, parent or family.



To provide highly specialist neuropsychological assessments and interventions for children and families based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including the MDTs in the hospital, psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.



To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist neuropsychological interventions at a level required for independent practice as recognised through eligibility for accreditation, or educational qualification.



To implement highly specialist neuropsychological interventions for children, young people, carers, families and groups, within and across teams and education providers, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses recognising national, divisional and trust-wide standards of evidence based (neuro)psychological intervention.



To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.



To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.