Clinician

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $109,730 - $132,764

Occupation: Prison and Corrective Services

Reference: DJCS/1838844

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?

**Clinician, Child and Adolescent Practice**
- Join Victoria's statewide rehabilitation services.
- Administer evidence-based clinical assessments and deliver targeted criminogenic and non-criminogenic interventions to children and young people in the youth justice system
- Provide specialised clinical guidance, advice and support to Youth Justice staff.

**Create Change from the Inside Out**

The young people we work with can make remarkable changes in their lives.

Statewide rehabilitation services includes innovative, evidence-based clinical assessments and interventions for children and young people to support their rehabilitation and reintegration with caregivers, education and other related support systems in the community.

As a statewide model, rehabilitation services aim to provide continuity of care to young people as they move from community into custody.

**The opportunity**
- AHP 4.1 Role earning $109,730-$121,247 per year plus super.
- Deliver targeted clinical interventions for children and young people.
- Provide clinical guidance and support to case managers, behaviour support specialists, youth justice workers and other staff.

In this role, you will deliver evidence-based clinical assessments and targeted criminogenic and non-criminogenic programs on an individual or group basis to children and young people in community and in custody.

You will also provide specialist clinical advice to case managers, behaviour support specialists, youth justice workers and our extended community and custodial operations staff to create best practise outcomes. This includes written advice in the form of completing comprehensive case notes, treatment plans and risk assessment reports for internal and external stakeholders.

You will undertake research and analysis in a specialist clinical portfolio area for input into recommendations to senior staff and provide feedback to improve overall practice and responsiveness.

**_ To be successful in the role, you will have _**_knowledge of key issues impacting youth justice and a minimum of two years' experience working directly with children and young people._**

**Qualifications Required**
- General Registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA); or
- Eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Social Work (AASW); or
- Credentialed as a Mental Health Nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses; or
- Registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.

For more information on the skills and experience that we look for, please read the job description document attached.

**If this sounds like a compelling job that you believe your skills would be a great match for, please APPLY NOW. Applications close 11:59pm, Sunday 2 February 2025**

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**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.