Step into a rewarding role in one of NSW’s most stunning regions! Clarence Correctional Centre offers a dynamic and supportive environment where your skills as a psychologist can truly make an impact.
We’re offering $12,000 relocation support (T&Cs; apply) to make your move seamless, along with meals on site, modern facilities, and a collaborative multidisciplinary team. Experience the best of the Northern Rivers lifestyle – from pristine beaches to lush hinterlands, while advancing your career in a unique and fulfilling setting.
This is more than a job; it’s an opportunity to combine professional growth with an enviable lifestyle. Make the move, enjoy the scenery, and join a team that values your expertise every step of the way.
You’ll be based at theClarence Correctional Centre inLavadia, NSW, contributing to a safer and more constructive correctional environment. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity for psychologists at all levels from provisional registration through to senior practitioners who are ready to support, innovate, and develop their clinical practice.
As a Psychologist, you’ll make a positive impact by:
- Providing advice and support for mental health wellness programs
- Conducting comprehensive psychological assessments and delivering evidence-based treatments
- Participating in clinical supervision and multidisciplinary consultations
Assisting with the design and development of assessment and treatment tools
- Preparing detailed reports including parole board submissions and psychological advice
- Building strong partnerships with internal staff, community organisations, and local stakeholders
- Driving continuous improvement and innovation in psychological services
We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:
- Permanent, full-time, part time or casual positions available
- Earn a competitive salary: Up to $115,000 per annum + super
- Flexible working arrangements (Remote working options available)
- Provision of Uniform and free onsite parking
- Subsidised meals
- Medical insurance discounts with lucrative staff discounts with selected major retail stores
- Ongoing free mental health and counselling support via our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Ongoing clinical and cultural supervision and support
Serco is a place for you
You are a self-starter, engaging, approachable, and able to establish and maintain constructive relationships with clients, staff, community members, and external agencies.
To be successful in this role you’ll have:
- Professional registration as a Psychologist (Provisional, General, Clinical, or Counselling registration accepted)
- The ability to integrate theories of mental health (general and forensic mental health) and forensic risk assessment frameworks into your clinical practice
- A caring nature and commitment to prisoner rehabilitation, including completing risk assessments, delivering individual therapeutic counselling, and preparing defendable documentation
- The highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour
- Solid understanding of evidence-based practices in the assessment and intervention of diverse psychological and behavioural presentations
- Knowledge of social and clinical variables associated with significant offense categories is desirable
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a multi‑disciplinary team providing psychological services and programs
Qualifications and qualified registration
- Professional registration with AHPRA as a Psychologist (provisional through senior registration levels)
- Postgraduate experience delivering individual counselling, ideally within correctional, welfare, or institutional settings, is highly regarded
Are you ready to do important work that really matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions for some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTQI+, veterans, people with disability, and culturally diverse candidates.
By joining Serco, you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
If you have any questions or would like a confidential chat, feel free to reach out toBeth Peeney on: +61 or ***********@serco-ap.com
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