Locum Principal / Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Locum Principal / Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist to join its Neuropsychology service in Preston. This role involves overseeing outpatient neuropsychological assessments and providing leadership within a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates must have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, HCPC registration, and substantial experience in neuropsychological assessment and treatment. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £64,455 to £88,682 per annum, pro rata, for a temporary duration.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years' experience as a senior psychologist.
• Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN) is preferred.
• History of leadership training and experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage neuropsychological assessment outpatient services.
• Ensure high quality of patient care and experience.
• Provide clinical supervision and lead assessment services.

Skills

Experience in neuropsychological assessment

Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams

Knowledge of trauma-based therapies

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Registration with HCPC as a practitioner psychologist

Post-graduate Diploma in Neuropsychology

Job description

Locum Principal / Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist

The closing date is 05 January 2026

This locum post provides an exciting opportunity to temporarily join a developing Neuropsychology service, with a specific focus on providing temporary clinical cover for the outpatient cognitive assessment pathway. Extensive previous experience of providing outpatient neuropsychological assessment within Neurosciences settings is required.

The banding and hours available are dependent on previous clinical experience, and are available at a maximum of 0.6 WTE if appointed at 8c, or a maximum of 0.8 WTE if appointed at 8b.

This locum post will initially be to cover a period of four months, with the potential for this to be extended.

The outpatient work will cover a wide range of neurological and neurosurgical presentations, including MS, acquired brain injury, brain tumours, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, and neurodegenerative conditions, as well as functional neurological disorders.

The locum post holder will also work alongside the existing Consultant Clinical Psychologist within Neuropsychology to provide supervision to staff within the outpatient cognitive assessment service.

The Neuropsychology team is a friendly and supportive service, and is situated as part of a dynamic and motivated wider Clinical Health Psychology Service (CHPS).

Main duties of the job

This is a principal or consultant level locum post (dependent on level of previous experience) that requires a range of key clinical and professional skills and extensive specialist clinical experience in Neuropsychology and broader physical health outpatient settings.

The post holder will work alongside the existing consultant clinical psychologist within Neuropsychology, taking a lead on provision of the outpatient neuropsychological assessment services supported by the Neuropsychology service at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. They will ensure the delivery of high quality patient care and experience in line with the Trust's strategic objectives. The post holder may also provide clinical supervision to other members of the Neuropsychology team.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Job responsibilities

To be an experienced and capable clinician, and professionally responsible for the day-to-day operating of the neuropsychological assessment outpatient services in the Clinical Health Psychology Service.

To be a highly effective practitioner.

To work flexibly and responsively to the demands of a dynamic and evolving service, adapting to change as required within the profession, speciality, wider service and organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
• HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist
• QiCN (or working towards)
• Post-graduate Diploma in Neuropsychology, accredited by the BPS/HCPC.
• Strong commitment to CPD as evidenced by post qualification training
• Qualification in supervision
• Minimum of three years' experience as a senior psychologist
• History of leadership training and experience
• Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN) and related eligibility for Division of Neuropsychology Specialist Register in Clinical Neuropsychology (SRCN) via this or the grand-parenting statement of equivalence (or working towards this qualification)

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant experience at similar grade working flexibly in extended roles.
• Knowledge and experience of working with trauma, and trauma-based therapies
• Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and of creating positive changes in practice within MDTs
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of leading on projects and / or change processes within complex organisational systems
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological and neuropsychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience in audit and evaluation of clinical services
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of Clinical Neuropsychology in different cultural contexts.
• Knowledge and experience of the role of clinical leadership within the NHS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary

£64,455 to £88,682 a year—Per Annum, Pro Rata