Overview
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. As a 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.
You will be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations, and other related assessments.
Responsibilities
* Provide psychotherapeutic assessments.
* Carry out risk assessment and risk management.
* Run and evaluate psychological tests, providing feedback sensitively.
* Formulate and implement plans for formal psychotherapeutic intervention and/or management of a client\'s mental health problems.
* Be responsible for the assessment, formulation and implementation of psychotherapeutic programmes for the specific clinical area.
Qualifications
* 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 administering psychometric testing and incorporating results into assessment, formulation, and care package design.
* Familiarity with the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
* Experience of indirect clinical work, including consultation with multi-disciplinary teams to support therapeutic interventions with service users.
Desirable
* Post-qualification training in one or more therapeutic approaches (e.g., Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour 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 other professional groups (e.g., Nurses, Therapeutic Care Workers).
* Experience of running therapeutic groups for service users with mental health problems.
* Experience of working with adults within a rehabilitation setting.
Base
Based in Bexhill-on-Sea, The Langford Centre is a highly regarded mental health hospital with 73 service users across 6 wards.
Benefits
* 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
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