Clinical Team Leader (Senior Clinician) Psychologist or Social Worker
Advance your psychologist or social worker career within a forensic setting as a senior clinician. Part time & flexible working arrangements avail.
Summary about this job
Government - State
Company: Corrections Victoria
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Full Time
Salary: $95,275 - $115,276 p/a + superannuation
Phone: +61-2-4024-8488
Fax: +61-8-4281-9399
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Detail information about job Clinical Team Leader (Senior Clinician) Psychologist or Social Worker. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Lead a team of clinicians - deliver assessments and program interventions
- Receive dedicated foundation, theory, and mentored on the job training
- Internal career advancement to other senior and executive vacancies
Senior Clinician (Psychologist or Social Worker)
- Supervise and lead a team of clinicians to effectively deliver assessments and program interventions
- Dedicated training prior to formally starting in the role (including foundation, theory, and mentored on the job training)
- Internal career advancement to other senior and executive vacancies within Corrections Victoria
Advance your career in leadership by specialising in psychology as a senior clinician within a forensic setting at Corrections Victoria.
Lead a team of clinicians based in Melbourne CBD to make a direct positive impact to the safety of our community.
We invite you to attend one of our upcoming information sessions to find out more about a career as a senior clinician with Corrections Victoria
- Saturday, 28 July. 10.30am to 11.30am: Melbourne. Register here
- Wednesday, 1 August. 12.30pm to 1.30pm: live online video. Register here
- Thursday, 9 August: 5.30pm to 6.30pm: live online video. Register here
About us
The Specialised Offender Assessment and Treatment Services (SOATS) fits within the Post Sentence Branch. This unit provides an integrated system of assessment, management, and intervention across our Vicotiran public prisons and Community Correctional Services. Our mission is to reduce the risk of sexual and violent reoffending.
Our team of clinicians work with a broad array of complex and challenging offenders, both serving Community Corrections Orders (CCOs) and prison sentences, with varying criminal and behavioural backgrounds requiring different diagnoses.
Benefits
- Receive dedicated training prior to formally starting in the role (including foundation, theory, and mentored on the job training)
- AHPRA, AASW or equivalent membership funded annually
- Receive supervision funded by the department
- Join a centrally located team based within the Carlton Justice Service Centre (based off Swanston Street in Melbourne's CBD)
- Access to networking opportunities and ongoing professional development in forensic and clinical work, including external conferences at the department
- Visa sponsorship assistance and/or relocation allowance options for eligible interstate and overseas candidates
To succeed you will have:
- a desire to lead, mentor and develop staff to meet their full potential
- experience in providing clinical individual and group supervision to clinicians, psychologists or social workers
- desirably at least two years' experience in delivering group-based treatment or therapy
- expertise in applying best practice principles of therapeutic intervention that will be applied to this complex offender group.
Registration requirements
To be eligible, you must either:
- hold general registration as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA)
- be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
You are also required to hold a valid drivers' licence
For further information please contact Jonathan Blake, Recruitment Services on (03) 8684 0103 or [email protected]
Applications close Tuesday 14 August at 11.59pm AEST. Please don't hesitate to apply prior to the closing date as applications are assessed on a regular basis.
At the Department of Justice and Regulation, our goal is for our workforce to reflect the diverse community we serve. We employ people of any gender, age, religion, cultural background and sexual orientation. We also seek to accommodate staff members with disabilities.