Senior Clinician

About this role

Join Victoria's new ground-breaking youth justice centre near Werribee

Oversee a team of Clinicians within a multi-disciplinary workforce to achieve sustained behaviour change.

Provide clinical interventions to complex cases, including addressing offending behaviour needs.

Cherry Creek is a safe and secure place where young people can work on getting their lives back on track, backed by world-leading research on rehabilitation.

Senior Clinicians at Cherry Creek will report directly to the Clinical Manager, Rehabilitation and Behaviour Support and provide leadership and direction to a team of Clinicians delivering offence-related programs and targeted interventions to young people with highly complex needs.

The Senior Clinician will collaborate, plan and manage a range of treatment plans, reports and risk assessment strategies that deliver evidence-based programs to support a young person's rehabilitation. They will also oversee and manage quality assurance, and ongoing professional development of activities, including providing input on policy development.

Relocation support may be available for the successful candidate.

Some of Cherry Creek's other design features include:

• Enhanced health, mental health and drug and alcohol support, including a health centre and two mental health units.

Purpose-built buildings to deliver programs and education, a recreational centre and vocational training campus for trade-specific courses.

To be successful in the role, you will be passionate about working with young people and providing leadership and guidance that drives sustained behaviour change and rehabilitative outcomes.

General Registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is required.

The department is 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 . This includes evidence of three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department.

Acceptable evidence includes:

COVID-19 digital certificate or ATAGI exemption certificate (available via your account)

Your immunisation history statement (available via your 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

FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:

For this particular vacancy, priority consideration will apply to Victorian Public Service (VPS) employees who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) platform.