About the Role
Empower people, strengthen the workforce and elevate your career by playing a key role in attracting, recruiting and developing a highly skilled clinical workforce that supports rehabilitation and reduces re‐offending across Victoria.
Salary: $116,413 – $140,849 (AH4) per year plus superannuation. City‐based head office.
What You'll Do
* Provide high‐level clinical expertise to support the recruitment and selection of forensic clinical staff in collaboration with Recruitment Services.
* Participate in the end‐to‐end recruitment process for allied health forensic clinician roles, including screening candidate applications, shortlisting, assessing suitability, grading work samples, conducting interviews, and reporting assessment results.
* Act as a subject matter expert in regular recruitment activities, such as online information sessions.
* Contribute to initiatives and projects for workforce development, capability building, recruitment, retention, attraction, and performance management.
* Engage in systematic review processes to identify opportunities that improve recruitment processes, tools and systems.
* Manage and coordinate the recruitment and onboarding of Allied Health student placements.
* Build and maintain positive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to support attraction and recruitment of Allied Health clinicians and student placement opportunities.
* Work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
* Contribute to enhancing workforce capability and education through the development and training of clinical and other Corrections Victoria staff and students.
* Develop and/or provide input on policy development, including best practice standards.
* Represent Forensic Intervention Services at conferences, expos and forums, describing offence‐specific service delivery, workforce initiatives and recruitment opportunities.
* Deliver and manage offence‐specific, evidence‐based behavioural assessments (including forensic risk assessments) and/or interventions, as required.
* Perform other duties as required.
Eligibility
* Registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency; or
* Eligibility 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
* A master's degree in psychotherapy and eligibility for registration with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA); or
* A master's degree in counselling and eligibility for membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or PACFA; or
* Registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
Qualifications
Qualifications in Human Resource Management, Learning & Development, Change Management or a related field will be well regarded but are not essential. An understanding of the health sector would also be advantageous but not essential.
EEO Statement
We welcome applicants of any gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and cultural background. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply. The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and offers a culturally appropriate recruitment process.
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, have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality, and 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.
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