Psychologist job in New Zealand
Position: Psychologist
Industry: Justice
Service: Community Safety & Offender Rehabilitation
Contract: Permanent Full Time
Location: New Zealand
Job #: 15
In these jobs, you will use your training, skills and experience to provide high-quality assessments that concentrate on community safety and offender rehabilitation. Also, you will provide offence focused therapy to offenders at high risk of re-offending, who are either in prison or serving community sentences. You would collaborate with other professionals and community organisations to provide consultation and advice on risk management and to support offenders to be crime free.
Expressions of interest are welcomed from recently qualified through to highly experienced psychologists. Senior level psychologists will provide supervision to other staff, including trainees and may undertake managerial level tasks, when required.
These opportunities offer the ability to further develop your career in a stimulating and professional team environment, with access to a wide range of training and research opportunities.
Successful applicants will be encouraged to show initiative and develop clinical skills further through a well-developed competency-based progression system. Excellent working conditions and competitive salaries are offered.
Our client is internationally recognised as a market leader in offender rehabilitation and community safety. Their goal is to reduce rates of re-offending. They seek psychologists who are passionate about the field of forensic psychology and offer the opportunity to join a highly skilled and valued workforce.
Ideal candidates will:
- Be a fully qualified clinical or forensic psychologist.
- Have a grounding in cognitive behavioural theory.
- Be able to complete risk and clinical assessments.
- Demonstrate an ability to work with prisoners.
- Possess an understanding of the dynamics of individual and group behaviour.
- Be an active verbal communicator with strong relationship management skills.
- Have excellent English writing skills, including report writing.
- Evidence a willingness to develop competencies in Tikanga Maori.
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Suitably matched psychologists will receive additional information about the role, employer, locations, an estimate of salary and details of any relocation assistance.
Psychologists wishing to proceed to an application will receive guidance in the application and interview preparation.
Job alerts will then be forwarded as roles become available.Expressions of interest are encouraged from both local and overseas psychologists.
These opportunities would support New Zealand immigration visas for qualifying candidates and their families.
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