GZ-psychologist PTSD outpatient clinic

Do you want to apply your expertise as a GZ-psychologist in trauma treatment within the national expertise center for psychotrauma? Where you work together with colleagues on sustainable recovery for clients with complex PTSD? And where you work intensively in a dedicated multidisciplinary team in which sharing knowledge and strengthening one another are central?

Within the Sinai Centrum, we work in a recovery-oriented and evidence-based manner. We combine specialist knowledge with personal attention and offer clients tailored treatment. You will be given the space to think along about the content and further development of our trauma care and make an active contribution to innovation and quality improvement.

Depending on your expertise and interest, you can also join one of our specialized sub-teams. For example, there is a team for clients with PTSD and emotion regulation issues, where Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) forms an important part of the treatment. You can also work within the veteran team, which is affiliated with the National Care System for Veterans (LZV), or within the team focusing on clients from the Jewish and Indo communities, where attention is given to intergenerational trauma and the impact of the Second World War in addition to PTSD.

You will work at our locations in Amstelveen and/or Amsterdam, actively collaborating in a dynamic team in which development, reflection, and knowledge sharing are central. Together with your colleagues, you contribute to a working environment in which expertise, collegiality, and quality go hand in hand.

'Working at the outpatient clinic gives me a lot of satisfaction. Sometimes you already see progress after five or six sessions: fewer nightmares, a more positive self-image. As a clinician, that gives me the feeling that we are doing important work.' - Charlene GZ-psychologist, Sinai Centrum Amstelveen

Working at the Sinai Centrum
The Sinai Centrum is a national expertise center for PTSD with a TopGGZ quality mark. Our clients are often traumatized by war, persecution, or interpersonal sexual violence in childhood. Specifically for the Jewish target group, the Sinai Centrum offers treatment for other common psychological disorders in addition to PTSD.

As a TopGGZ institution, the Sinai Centrum offers highly specialized trauma care for clients with complex and often multiple problems, where referral only takes place if previous treatments had insufficient effect. You will work together with experienced professionals in an intensive, substantively deep, and unique setting that clearly differs from a regular trauma center. In our treatment, we pay attention to everyone's background and life story. Important values within the Sinai Centrum are caring for one another, space to be yourself, and sincere hospitality.

Within the Sinai Centrum, we work continuously to improve our care. In the Academic Workshop, we connect science and practice: we translate new insights to the treatment room and research the issues we encounter in daily practice. In this way, we contribute not only to the best treatment for PTSD but also to the professional development of our field.

What are you going to do?
As a GZ-psychologist within the outpatient clinic of the Sinai Centrum, you are responsible for the entire treatment trajectory. You conduct intakes, perform diagnostics, make indications, and treat clients with PTSD according to the latest insights and proven effective treatment methods, such as EMDR and Imaginary Exposure (IE). You are the lead clinician and monitor the quality and progress of the treatment, working closely with colleagues from various disciplines.

Your duties may consist of

• Provide psycho-education to clients regarding PTSD;
• Conduct intakes for new clients;
• Perform diagnostic research;
• Treat clients with (complex) PTSD using EMDR and IE;
• Guide colleagues from your role as lead clinician;
• Provide work supervision to master psychologists;
• Participate in policy-oriented team meetings, case discussions, and supervision.

Webinar
Curious about what it is like to work with PTSD?
Watch our webinar on demand here:
Webinar 'working with PTSD'

• You are a BIG-registered GZ-psychologist
• You have extensive experience and substantive expertise in PTSD treatment
• You have an affinity with PTSD or trauma-related complaints
• You are preferably VGCT-registered or willing to obtain this registration
• You enjoy guiding colleagues and take responsibility as a lead clinician
• Have respect for the Jewish signature of the Sinai Centrum.

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

Want to know more about this vacancy?
For more information, please contact Yvonne Merkies, manager of treatment affairs via 06-25751096 or Anouk le Duc, manager of operations via 06-46978093.

Does this vacancy appeal to you? Apply now! You can respond as long as the vacancy is online. If we have welcomed a new colleague, the vacancy will be closed. This vacancy has been published both internally and externally.