We are looking for an experienced clinical psychologist / neuropsychologist to join the well established Rapid Access to Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) Team at our Denmark Hill site. The RAAR team provides specialist, intensive rehabilitation for 8 patients with a wide range of conditions, including brain injury, spinal cord injury and other neurological or major trauma conditions during their acute admission to hospital, for up to six weeks.
The RAAR team enables patients with complex rehabilitation needs to have access to specialist, intensive rehabilitation at a much earlier point in their rehabilitation journey. The team is a well resourced team with specialist physio, speech and occupational therapy, neuro-psychology, neuro-psychiatry and rehabilitation medicine and dedicated discharge support.
This post is ideal for a practitioner with an interest in neuropsychological assessment and interventions across a range of presentations including with patients with behaviours that challenge, patients with cognitive dysfunction and supporting patients with adjustment post traumatic injury including those with co-existing psychiatric conditions, as well as supporting adjustment for patients with new physical disabilities and supporting families and carers, alongside the Band 4 Assistant Psychologist.
The RAAR team prides itself on working in a truly inter-disciplinary manner with sound formulation and person-centred goal setting at the core of our ethos.
You will lead the Rapid Access to Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) Team psychology service at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at the Denmark Hill site. You will provide specialist assessment, consultancy and intervention of patients’ neuropsychology needs for patients admitted to the RAAR service across the inpatient wards as clinically indicated. You will carry a caseload of patients with complex health and social care needs using evidence based practise and client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. You will foster and maintain links with other departments and services and champion an interdisciplinary team (IDT) approach.
You will provide clinical and professional leadership to a team of qualified members of staff and assistants. You will attend relevant meetings as a representative of the RAAR team and will advise on service developments in line with government policy development. You will lead on implementation of local clinical governance initiatives for the service, evidence-based practice, clinical audit and day-to-day operations of the service.
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are delivering high-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
We have also agreed four new organisational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
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