GZ-psychologist forensic youth team

Do you want to truly make a difference as a GZ-psychologist? Do you enjoy working in a professional and close-knit FACT team where you provide intensive, outreaching care to young people and young adults with complex problems? Use your expertise to contribute alongside us to recovery, safety, and a better future! Even if you are an orthopedagogist-generalist, there are opportunities to fulfill this role.

What will you do?
As a GZ-psychologist at the Forensic Youth Team (FJT) of Inforsa, you will fulfill a crucial role as a lead practitioner within a dynamic multidisciplinary FACT team. The challenge of this position lies in providing treatment and guidance to youth and young adults (ages 15-24) with complex problems, where boundary-crossing behavior stems from skewed developments in behavior and psyche. You work outreaching and collaborate intensively with urban chain approaches in the East region and surrounding areas of Amsterdam (Amsterdam East/South-East/North, Amstelveen, and Weesp).

• Intake and Treatment Plan: You conduct intake interviews with new clients and develop these into thorough treatment plans, in which the focus of the treatment is established. You present this intake during the multidisciplinary intake consultation of the Forensic Youth Team.
• Diagnostics and Treatment: You perform diagnostics. Part of this is a crime analysis that you perform together with your client. Additionally, you provide psychological treatments to multiple clients with a wide range of problems, such as addiction, trauma, behavioral problems, aggression, personality disorders, ASD, or ADHD. If necessary, you apply treatment methods such as EMDR, CBT, schema therapy, MBT, Thought Detailing, or Tailored AR.
• Evaluation: You evaluate treatments and present them during multidisciplinary treatment discussions. You reflect on achieved results and create a plan for the upcoming period.
• Consultation and Collaboration: You maintain frequent consultation with the client's loved ones and other professionals, such as youth protection and probation, Top600, or the community police officer. You provide work supervision to a master psychologist or PIOG. You participate in policy-oriented team meetings, case discussions, professional development, and/or intervision.

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

What do you bring?
To be successful in this challenging role, you should possess a (nearly) completed education as a GZ-psychologist or orthopedagogist-generalist, with the corresponding BIG registration and AGB code. Experience with EMDR or person-centered therapy is a plus, but we also offer training and educational opportunities. You have an affinity with the forensic target group and are willing to deepen your knowledge of the social map of the region. It is important that you can handle stressful situations well, can switch between different interests, and can turn resistance into cooperation.

Providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is part of the procedure.

Where will you be working?
You will join a close-knit, committed team where collaboration is central. We know each other well, coordinate our work with one another, and are always ready to support each other. We dare to be critical when necessary, because we believe that open communication and feedback contribute to the best care.

Together, we share a great heart for our target group. We find it important to offer tailored care and always look at what someone truly needs. In doing so, we do not lose sight of each other as colleagues. There is room for humor, a listening ear, and sincere attention. We take time for each other, celebrate successes together, and ensure that everyone feels seen and valued. In this way, we create a working environment in which both clients and colleagues can feel at home.

Specific characteristics of the Forensic Youth Team:

• The FJT offers highly intensive outreaching care for clients with (a risk of) criminal behavior, boundary-crossing and/or disruptive behavior. In doing so, the focus lies on close cooperation with the system surrounding the client, including loved ones and the (forensic) chain.
• The FJT treats clients with complex problems in various areas of life, including finances, homelessness, boundary-crossing and/or criminal behavior arising from severe addiction and/or psychiatric problems, whether or not in combination with a developmental disorder.
• This year, GIT-PD will be implemented in the FJT. All practitioners will be trained in this.

Do you recognize yourself in the profile above or do you want more substantive information about the position? Then please contact Lise Swinkels (GZ-psychologist, via 06-11860708. You are also very welcome for an orientation interview or to shadow us for a day! You can respond as long as the vacancy is online. If we have welcomed a new colleague, the vacancy will be closed.

We prefer to look for new colleagues ourselves; we find that much more personal. Acquisition is therefore not appreciated.

About Arkin
Arkin is the premier metropolitan mental healthcare provider with 11 specialisms. Together we are the expert in the field of psychiatry and addiction care. Together, we advocate for the mental resilience of our clients.
At Arkin, 4,200 committed, driven professionals work who dare to stick their necks out. They are continuously looking for customized solutions for their clients. In doing so, quality counts, every single time. We therefore stimulate employees to continuously develop themselves in their field of expertise through extensive training programs. We also encourage employees to develop innovative ideas and work them out in multidisciplinary teams. At Arkin, we believe that innovation is essential to keep care affordable and accessible.