We have an opportunity for a Forensic Psychologist, to join our Psychology department at the Langford Centre, working part time 2/3 days per week, across our acute wards.
Based in Bexhill on Sea, The Langford Centre is a highly regarded mental health hospital, with 73 service users with a range of conditions, being treated over 6 wards.
As Forensic Psychologist you'll deliver a specialist service, to run assessments and evaluations to implement psychological interventions. Enabling the effective delivery of our psychology programme.
Responsibilities of the Forensic Psychologist post include:
* You will be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations etc.
* Provide psychotherapeutic assessments.
* You must be skilled in risk assessment and management.
* You will be responsible, for running and evaluating psychological tests, providing feedback sensitively.
* Formulate and implement plans for formal psychotherapeutic intervention and/or management of a client's mental health problems.
* To be responsible for the assessment, formulation and implementation of psychotherapeutic programmes, for the specific clinical area.
A full list of duties is available upon request.
About you, the successful Forensic Psychologist
Essential
* Professional Registration as a Psychologist with the HCPC
* Experience of assessing Challenging Behaviour, formulating underlying functions and needs, and designing behavioural or treatment plans accordingly.
* Proficiency in and experienced with administering psychometric testing, and incorporating results into assessment and formulation, and the design of care packages.
* Familiarity with the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
* Experience of indirect clinical work, such as consultation with multi-disciplinary teams to support their therapeutic interventions with service users.
Desirable
* Post qualification training in one or more therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, or Systemic Psychotherapy.
* Experience of working with Service Users from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds in a forensic environment.
* Experience of teaching, training and supervising members of other professional groups, such as Nurses and Therapeutic Care Workers.
* Experience of running therapeutic groups for service users with mental health problems.
* Experience of working with adults within a rehabilitation setting.
Being part of the Bramley Group, you can expect:
* Training and development opportunities
* Career advancement opportunities
* Retail discounts including food shopping, clothes, electronics
* Travel discounts for holidays
* Energy bill savings
* Online courses virtual, live and interactive to upskill yourself
* Help the planet, plant trees, save turtles!
* 24/7 confidential counselling
If you are interested in finding out more about the Forensic Psychologist role, then please apply today!