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Form of work Job Description
Location: Various
Job type: Full time
Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety
Salary: $65,109 - $89,661
Occupation: Community Services
Reference: DOJ/FISPROVMAR
Get the best start to your career - work on complex cases and help make the community safer
Join a collaborative multidisciplinary team
Earn $72,751 - $91,600 + super
Full and part-time, ongoing and fixed-term vacancies
Choice of metro and regional locations
If you're looking to complete supervised practice as part of a first-rate multidisciplinary team and get the best grounding for your career, you'll love the work at Forensic Intervention Services (FIS).
We are a specialist program area of Corrections Victoria doing innovative work in areas such as violent and sexual offending, alcohol and other drugs, violent extremism and restorative justice.
You'll work on complex cases and play a vital role in reducing reoffending and making the community safer. Opportunities are based in Melbourne CBD and Lara with travel as required to regional facilities.
What you'll do
As a provisional psychologist, we'll build your experience as part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering best-practice forensic intervention in a correctional environment.
Working within the Risk-Needs-Responsivity model, you'll support our clinicians and team leaders in delivering a range of state-wide services that include:
Risk assessments and clinical interviews to determine treatment pathways.
Co-facilitating group-based clinical intervention programs.
Completing timely and comprehensive case notes.
Preparing treatment plans and risk assessment reports for internal and external stakeholders.
How we'll support and reward you
As well as being a great learning curve, our work can be demanding so we offer comprehensive training and support.
A specialised induction program including foundation, theory, and mentored on-the-job training.
Recognised pathways for gaining general registration and becoming a clinician.
Exposure to national and international experts in forensic work.
Mental health and wellbeing care - essential debriefing for the first 12 months for new forensic practitioners.
Secondary supervision by Psychology Board of Australia approved supervisor, as well as senior clinical staff with support on a day-to-day basis.
Ongoing professional development including study leave opportunities.
Annual Conference for technical and professional development.
Association membership funded annually.
Relocation allowances for eligible candidates.
Where you could work
The Community Interventions team is responsible for screenings, assessments, and interventions for male service users in the community on the Sexual Pathway.
The Minimum/Maximum Security Prison team is responsible for assessment and treatment at minimum- or maximum security public prisons. This team provides services to Metropolitan Remand Centre, Melbourne Assessment Prison, Langi Kal Kal Prison, Dhurringile Prison, Beechworth Correctional Centre and Port Phillip Prison.
The Medium Security Prison team is responsible for assessment and treatment at medium security public prisons and Ravenhall Correctional Centre (Sexual Pathway only). This team provides services to Hopkins Correctional Centre, Loddon Prison Precinct, and Ravenhall Correctional Centre.
The Women's Interventions team is responsible for assessment and treatment of female service users in custody and in the community. This team provides services to Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Tarrengower Prison, and to female service users in the community.
The Barwon South West team is responsible for assessment and treatment at Barwon South West public prison precinct. This team is based in the Barwon region (Lara, Victoria).
The Adapted Interventions Team provide assessments and interventions to service users with a cognitive impairment. These programs specialise in being responsive to the learning styles and needs of people with lower cognitive functioning. The team provides statewide services.
Eligibility
To apply, you'll need to hold registration as a provisional psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA) and be eligible for general registration upon completion of your studies. You will also need to possess a current driver's licence.
Please include a cover letter in your application outlining the reasons why you feel you'd be a great fit for the role. Successful candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include national police checks and misconduct screening.
To find out more, contact our recruitment team by emailing candidatecare@justice.vic.gov.au
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is continually working towards increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) workforce. The Aboriginal Employment Team aims to attract, recruit and retain Aboriginal staff in a number of roles including clinicians. This support includes a culturally appropriate attraction and recruitment process. To learn more, email aboriginal.employment@justice.vic.gov.au
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.
The department is also committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.
Please note, this offer of employment is conditional upon you providing evidence to the department that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination Certification will be collected upon commencement.
Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service Portal. This includes evidence of three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department
Acceptable evidence includes:
1. COVID-19 digital certificate (available via your myGov account)
2. Your immunisation history statement (available via your myGov account)
Other documentation outside the above will not be accepted as evidence of having received your COVID-19 vaccine doses. If you consider that you are unable to be vaccinated against COVID-19, please contact Jonathan Blake on 0437 587 907.
