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Job Title:

Location: 

South Auckland (Manukau)

Contract:

Permanent

Ref No:

10480

Key Focus:

Assessment and intervention of offending behaviour. Providing specialist consultation, advice and training.

Place of Work:

A new office located in Manukau (South Auckland)  Psychologists will travel to local Probation Service offices and the new Auckland Women's and Springhill Men's prisons to deliver psychological services.

The staffing contingent will include a Principal Psychologist (Manager), ten clinical, forensic or general psychologists and an administration person.      

Key Roles:

• To provide quality psychological services including clinical and risk assessment, treatment, referral to appropriate agencies where necessary, supervision to prison, intervention or probation staff, monitoring of integrity of assessments and intervention programmes;

• To provide advice, education and training to Corrections staff and community agencies;

• To provide specialist consultation and advice to the National Parole Board regarding risk, and the Courts regarding sentencing;

• To develop good working relationships with other services, agencies and groups;

• When required to undertake research in the context of the scientist/practitioner model;

• Senior Psychologists will provide professional supervision and oversight of some psychologists in the team.

Required skills & experience:

•  Experience can be new graduate thru to senior levels;

• General;

          Emotionally mature and stable.

         Commitment to supporting organisational goals and, in particular, a service focus.

         Ability to problem-solve.

         Ability to work in a team.

         Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) & biculturalism.

         Ability to self manage work demands and work relationships.

         A drivers license.

Professional  Requirements:

Registration or eligibility for registration under the New Zealand Psychologists Boards clinical or general scopes of practice.

Career Path:

• A five level competency remuneration system. Psychologists work through this at their own pace.

• Full training and support is provided to those new to this field.

• A generous number of professional development training opportunities and days to obtain the required competencies.

• Well developed supervision and training plans.

•   Basic and intermediate level psychologists develop competencies to undertake senior level positions. Some Senior Psychologists have taken up management roles as Principal Psychologists, Regional Managers, Directors. Others have been employers as Senior Research officers. Some have taken up senior management or advisory positions with other services within Corrections such as the Prison or Probation Service.

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