Assistant Psychologist jobs in United Kingdom

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Post qualification training in one or more therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Dialectical 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.

• 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!