Forensic Senior Clinician

Overview

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About This Role

Empower people and elevate your career – join Forensic Intervention Services.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist risk assessment, treatment planning, intervention and consultation in relation to complex, high risk and high-profile service users.
• Clinically lead and advise on the management, treatment, and assessment of complex, high-risk, and high-profile individuals.
• Ensure best practices in working with individuals accommodated in restricted environments and/or those who have been identified on the violent extremism pathway.
• Build strong partnerships with stakeholders to enhance multi-disciplinary approaches and influence complex, multi-faceted decision-making.
• Drive quality assurance, research, and policy development to improve practices for managing high-risk service users, including violent extremism cohorts.
• Travel to correctional facilities across the state.

What We Offer

• World-class training and wellbeing support.
• Flexible home and on-site working arrangements.
• 1 fixed term role and 2 ongoing roles available.
• Salary: $113,022 – $136,747 (AH4) per year plus super.
• City-based head office with travel across Victoria.

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking experienced professionals in psychology, social work, mental health nursing, occupational therapy, counselling or psychotherapy to join our growing team of forensic clinicians. Whether you're looking to expand your expertise, enjoy a more dynamic role or leave a lasting impact in a progressive field, this is career-defining work with marginalised groups you can't access anywhere else.

Skills and Qualifications

• An advanced understanding of theory and therapeutic frameworks underpinning assessment and treatment (e.g. Risk-Needs-Responsivity principles) with complex and high risk service users within the justice system, and the ability to apply these frameworks in practice.
• Experience using evidence-based psychometric and structured professional judgement tools for risk assessment, including CVE Assessments and Interventions.
• Knowledge of/experience with treatment modalities (e.g., CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy, Transtheoretical Model, Trauma-Informed Care, Strengths Based Approaches).
• Understanding of behavioural and mental health considerations for service users in restricted environments and relevant therapeutic frameworks.
• Empathy, warmth, rewarding and directive therapist characteristics to facilitate the therapeutic relationship.
• Time management to see service users, liaise with stakeholders, and complete administration tasks.
• Ability to work well in a team and support others in managing high risk, high profile, and complex service users.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for negotiation with stakeholders.

Eligibility

• General registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA).
• Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• Credentialed as a mental health nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
• Registered as an occupational therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
• A master's degree in psychotherapy and registration with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
• A master's degree in counselling and membership with Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or registration with PACFA.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

We want to make sure all Victorians feel represented by the department's work. One of the ways we do this is by recruiting a diverse workforce – we welcome people of any gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and cultural background. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications close 7 September 2025.

Important Information

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include reference checks, national police checks and misconduct screening. Dependent on the role, other checks may include VicRoads checks, drivers licence checks, medical checks, Working with Children Checks, and Declaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).

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