Talent Engagement Advisor

Posted Sunday 21 September 2025 at 2:00 pm | Expired Sunday 19 October 2025 at 12:59 pm

- Extensive investment in facilities and people supporting our service expansion

- A unique career opportunity in forensic mental health, offering diversity, challenge, and meaningful impact.

- A culture where people care

A career in the forensic mental health sector is diverse, challenging and rewarding. A career at Forensicare will be like no other. If you’re passionate about supporting people in their mental health recovery, Forensicare is where you need to be. You will be a part of a caring and supportive team, making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending. We approach our work with curiosity and a commitment to understanding the unique needs of our consumers and carers. Working across community, hospital and prison settings, you can learn, apply your specialist skills and advance in your profession. Together, we can contribute to a more connected, compassionate mental health and criminal justice system.

Job location

Our Corporate Office is located at Thomas Embling Hospital just 15 minutes north of the city. Due to our announced expansion across all Directorates, we have a need for experienced like-minded professionals to join our team to support our growing services. Our Directorates includes Thomas Embling Hospital, Prison Operations and our Community Directorate with highly skilled disciplines including Nursing, Lived Experience, Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychologists and Social Work.

About the Role:

The role of Talent Engagement Specialist supports the Talent Acquisition Team to deliver best practice Talent Acquisition strategies. This role will be all things Candidate Experience. It will manage all onboarding processes through to first day, including contract generation, Working Rights, Qualification, police and immunisation checks. It will process all immigration Visa sponsorship requirements and support regular engagement with Talent Pools for future workforce planning.

Duties:

- Manage the onboarding process, compliant with Forensicare policies and procedures including:

- Generation of employment contracts for new staff.

- Process criminal history checks and maintain an accurate record of Fit2Work and National and International Police Certificates.

- Process all required onboarding documentation including liaison with Immunisation Control to ensure position requirements are met

- Administration of Immigration process and tracking of Sponsorship database

- Manage all communication during onboarding and immigration process

- Develop and manage Forensicare’s conference, exhibition and job fair engagement database to ensure tracking, ROI and appropriate investment in conferences is being achieved.

About You:

- Relevant Human Resource, Business or Marketing qualification is desirable or with demonstrated skills.

- Experience in engagement and management of the people experience during onboarding

- Experience in interpreting enterprise agreements

- Highly developed HRIS systems experience, ideally Dayforce

- Advanced Microsoft Office skills

- Demonstrated ability to perform with limited supervision.

Or for more information on Careers at Forensicare, visit https://www.forensicare.vic.gov.au/careers

*Please Note - Applications will be reviewed and interviewed as they are received. Advertising may close earlier than indicated.

A culture where people matter.

- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.

- Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.

- Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses

- A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.

- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.

- Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.

- A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.

- Influenza and Immunisation Evidence

- This position is subject to a Police Check

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPONSIVENESS, INTEGRITY, IMPARTIALITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, LEADERSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.

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