NRC Clinical Psychologist in Rehabilitation


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£57,528 to £64,750 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Loughborough, LE12 5GF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	29 Sept 2026
Closing date:	25 Oct 2026

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Summary

You will be a member of the Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology Department, working in the NRC Psychological Health team, and/or other specialisms as directed by the Head of Department. In the first instance this will be at the Linden Lodge Unit City Hospital, then move to the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) Loughborough during the autumn of 2025. Your role is to provide highly specialist clinical psychology assessment, intervention and advice, on the basis of advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, acquired through doctoral level qualification. This clinical activity will be direct to patients and/or their family, or working indirectly, to advise other staff (individually or as a group) how to manage highly complex cases. You will have patients allocated to you, and you will be responsible for managing their psychological needs, act independently, and be accountable for your professional actions. Your work will be with rehabilitation patients with various conditions, including musculoskeletal injury and sometimes brain injury. You will contribute to the teaching and training of staff within the multidisciplinary team, supervision of trainee Clinical Psychologists, and other students who are on work placement with the team. You will supervise the clinical work of Assistant Psychologist(s) within the service, in their work with your patients, and/or be their primary clinical supervisor. However, this post does not have any budgetary or line management responsibility In collaboration with the lead for the psychology rehabilitation team, you will contribute to the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service. This will involve interpreting national guidelines and local policy. You will participate in clinical governance activities. You will contribute to, lead and/or supervise research activities, under the research programme of the Clinical and Neuropsychology team, as directed by the lead of the team. You will generally work core hours (either 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm), during which you will be expected to be on-site. As an NUH staff member, you may be asked to assist in the event of a Major Incident.

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