Bramley Health • TN40 2JE
About this role
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
o 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.
o Provide psychotherapeutic assessments.
o You must be skilled in risk assessment and management.
o You will be responsible, for running and evaluating psychological tests, providing feedback sensitively.
o Formulate and implement plans for formal psychotherapeutic intervention and/or management of a client's mental health problems.
o 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
o Professional Registration as a Psychologist with the HCPC
o Experience of assessing Challenging Behaviour, formulating underlying functions and needs, and designing behavioural or treatment plans accordingly.
o Proficiency in and experienced with administering psychometric testing, and incorporating results into assessment and formulation, and the design of care packages.
o Familiarity with the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
o Experience of indirect clinical work, such as consultation with multi-disciplinary teams to support their therapeutic interventions with service users.
DESIRABLE
o Post qualification training in one or more therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, or Systemic Psychotherapy.
o Experience of working with Service Users from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds in a forensic environment.
o Experience of teaching, training and supervising members of other professional groups, such as Nurses and Therapeutic Care Workers.
o Experience of running therapeutic groups for service users with mental health problems.
o Experience of working with adults within a rehabilitation setting.
BEING PART OF THE BRAMLEY GROUP,
YOU CAN EXPECT
o Training and development opportunities
o Career advancement opportunities
o Retail discounts including food shopping, clothes, electronics
o Travel discounts for holidays
o Energy bill savings
o Online courses virtual, live and interactive to upskill yourself
o Help the planet, plant trees, save turtles!
o 24/7 confidential counselling
If you are interested in finding out more about the Forensic Psychologist role, then please apply today!