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 PsychologistEssential • 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. Please note that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check is required for this role.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 counsellingIf you are interested in finding out more about the Forensic Psychologist role, then please apply today!
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