Psychologist

Who we are:

Caraniche has been delivering innovative psychological and behavioural health services for more than 30 years, partnering with government, community, and private organisations across Australia to deliver positive client outcomes. Through our recent partnership with the WISE Employment Group, Caraniche is a not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting people with AOD and mental health issues through collaborative and supportive service delivery.  We are a diverse and inclusive culture which transcends to our clients, community and staff by honouring our commitment and values.

Our Purpose: "Connections that better lives"

Our Values:

• Integrity: We are committed to ethical, reliable and transparent service delivery.
• Excellence: We strive to provide professional service of the highest quality.
• Innovation: We develop creative solutions that facilitate leadership and realise individual and collective potential.
• Partnership: We pursue collaborative and supportive partnerships.

Your new Role:

Caraniche's unique High Risk Offenders Alcohol and Drug Service (HiROADS) is looking for an experienced Psychologist to join our team to provide community-based individual dual diagnosis mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) counselling to complex and high-risk forensic clients. HiROADS provides face-to-face and telehealth dual diagnosis (AOD and mental health) intervention to a variety of complex offenders on community-based orders, including those with serious violent and sexual offending histories. Our team of clinicians work from a variety of locations across the state as well as from our offices. Suitable applicants will have a desire to further develop their counselling and intervention skills with a complex and high-risk client group whilst being supported by a highly experienced team of clinicians and leaders.

Caraniche provides evidence based, high-quality, regular clinical supervision via our Professional Practice & Supervision team. Our head office is based in Abbotsford, with some travel expected to co-location sites as negotiated.

The ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualification and registration within psychology under the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Current and valid Police Check and valid Working with Children's Check
• Relevant work experience providing dual diagnosis (MH& AOD) counselling intervention and/or working with trauma and complex presentations (e.g. acute mental health presentations, cognitive impairment)
• A team player with the ability to work within a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Ability to work at least one day from the Abbotsford office location, with some onsite treatment delivery at local co-location satellite sites (E.g., Epping, Sunshine, Ringwood, Dandenong). Therefore, some travel is a required part of the role and locations can be negotiated based on client and service needs.
• Available minimum 0.8 (full-time desirable)

Our promise to you:

Caraniche values our employees and is committed to their professional development and career progression through regular individual and peer supervision and ongoing training on topics relevant to their area of work.  Our unique Professional Practice & Supervision (PPS) team provides individual and group clinical supervision (separate to line management) across all our clinical teams. PPS also offers a variety of internal trainings to ensure you continue to develop and progress your clinical skills and identity as a clinician. We are committed to supporting you to provide the highest quality services to our clients whilst ensuring you are supported to reflect and develop as a clinician and progress your career objectives. 

Caraniche Employee Benefits:

• Salary Packaging options to increase your take home pay
• Work equipment provided – laptop, and phone if required
• Flexible work arrangements by negotiation to suit your work/life balance
• Professional Practice Clinical supervision (1:1 and group) provided regularly
• Supervision provided (by agreement) to obtain Clinical Endorsement
• Internal training, Professional development days
• 4 x Wellbeing days per year (additional to other leave entitlements)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Reimbursement of professional membership fees

We are ready to hear from you:

Caraniche has a culture of belonging and we value differences. We are an organisation that welcomes and appreciates everyone for who they are including people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Caraniche welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Let us know if we can provide any reasonable accommodations to enable you to participate in the job application and interview process because of your personal circumstances. Please reach out to the Careers team at  

Please note:

• Please complete a cover letter outlining your suitability and preferred office location.
• All successful offers will be subject to a satisfactory Fit2Work Check including a national criminal history check and work entitlement check.
• To be eligible you must have full Australian work rights.
• Applications will be screened upon receipt.