This role as a treatment coordinator is within a forensic psychiatric center. The position focuses on complex issues and the challenges that come with them. You will lead treatments that are equivalent to care outside detention, with a focus on risk reduction. You are co-responsible for a living unit where detained patients with severe and diverse psychiatric disorders reside, ranging from psychotic disorders to addiction and developmental disorders.
What you do
- Shape a therapeutic living and treatment environment in collaboration with the department head.
- Conduct intake interviews, risk assessments, and psychodiagnostic research.
- Develop treatment plans and be ultimately responsible for the course of treatment and adherence to care policy for your own caseload.
- Maintain contact with various disciplines both within and outside the institution, such as the treatment team, case managers, medical service, patient administration, other judicial institutions, mental health institutions, the Public Prosecution Service, legal representatives, and lawyers.
- Advise management and provide information to reporters.
- Participate in (policy) working groups, perform treatments or diagnostics, and provide work guidance or supervision.
What they ask
- Completed Master's degree.
- BIG registration as a Clinical Psychologist or GGZ Nursing Specialist.
- Several years of relevant work experience, preferably in the forensic field.
- Be resilient and have an affinity for the special setting.
- Possess forensic acumen to adequately shape risk management.
- Be able to work independently, set and maintain boundaries, despite the focus on multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Understand the political and social tension between care and safety, and see it as a challenge to find solutions within this framework.
Profile
- Able to cope well with a dynamic work environment and anticipate unexpected situations.
- Possess good coordinating skills and be able to lead a department together with a hierarchically responsible person.
- Effectively convey substantive knowledge to different disciplines for optimal care.
- Find a way through the sometimes seemingly contrasting principles of treatment, care, and safety, with an eye for individual and societal interests.
Practical
- Employment type: Fixed-term employment contract with the prospect of an indefinite-term contract (possibly with a maximum 1-month probationary period).
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