Principla Psychologist Job in Nortland, New Zealand

Job Title:	Principal Psychologist	Location:	Kaikohe (Nortland)
		Contract:	Permanent 40 hrs per week
		Reference	16560
Key Focus	The Principal Psychologist is responsible for leading & supervising a team of psychologists, monitoring service delivery, implementing policy & procedural guidelines & ensuring the provision of quality psychological services.
Place of Work:	This office is located in Kaikohe (Northland).
Key Roles:	The focus of criminal justice or forensic psychology in New Zealand is the reduction of re-offending i.e. work will revolve around the psychological assessment of offending risk & needs & the targeting of interventions to offenders. The Kaikohe office is relatively new & came into begin with the establishment of the Ngawha Corrections Facility near Kaikohe/Bay of Islands in Northland. This new state-of –the-art facility house offenders from the Northland area the office provides services to them as well as to the offenders serving community sentence in Whangarei, Kaikohe, Kaitaia and Dargaville.
Required skills & experience:	You do not have to have a Corrections background but you will be a registered psychologist with clinical or forensic training. You will need to have demonstrated experience in psychological assessment & treatment, team leadership & supervision, have skills in research & evaluation, relationship & resource management.
Professional Requirements:	Registration or eligibility for registration under the New Zealand Psychologists Boards clinical or general scopes of practice.
Salary:	From NZD $85,000.
Interested in this position ?