Principla Psychologist Job in Auckland, New Zealand

Job Title:	Principal Psychologist	Location:	South Auckland
		Contract:	Permanent 40 hrs per week
		Reference	16720
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. To manage a team of Psychological Service staff who are dedicated to the delivery of a range of psychological services to, Courts, Parole Boards, offenders serving custodial and community sentences.
Place of Work:	This office is located in new well resourced offices in South Auckland (Manukau).
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 South Auckland office is relatively new & came into begin with the establishment of the Springhill Corrections Facility in the North Waikato and the Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility. These new state-of –the-art facilities house offenders from the Auckland area and the office provides services to them as well as to the offenders serving community sentence in South Auckland.
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.
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