Forensic clinical team leader, minimum/maximum security prisons (melbourne)

Empower people and elevate your career - join Forensic Intervention Services.

• Enjoy world-class training and wellbeing support.
• Flexible home and on‐site working arrangements.
• Earn $113,022 - $136,747 (AH4) per year plus super.
• City‐based head office with travel across Victoria.
• 1 Ongoing role available.

FIS provides evidence‐based screening, assessment and intervention services for individuals in custody and the community. We focus on violent and sexual offending, restorative justice, violent extremism and family violence.

We're seeking experienced professionals in psychology, social work, mental health nursing, occupational therapy, counselling or psychotherapy to join our growing team of forensic clinicians.

Our work can be demanding, so we offer first‐rate training and support.

• Specialised induction program for new clinical staff (foundation, theory, and mentored on‐the‐job training).
• Exposure to national and international experts in forensic work.
• Mental health and wellbeing care – essential debriefing for the first 12 months for new forensic practitioners.
• Ongoing professional development, including clinical scholarship, research program and study leave opportunities.
• Your professional association membership or registration funded annually (e.g. PBA/AHPRA, AASW).

As a Forensic Clinical Team Leader working in Minimum/Maximum Security Prisons, you will contribute to the development of programmes and policy and provide consultancy in the placement and management of the applicable service user cohort.

• Provide leadership to a multi‐disciplinary team.
• Oversee the consistent delivery of services to individuals with complex forensic presentations and varied treatment needs.
• Build strong partnerships with stakeholders to enhance multi‐disciplinary approaches and influence complex, multi‐faced decision‐making.
• Continue your practice by maintaining involvement in direct service delivery, including comprehensive risk assessments and facilitating group or individual interventions in prisons across the state.
• Travel to correctional facilities across the state.

• Demonstrated experience managing and leading staff in multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Significant experience in and knowledge of evidence‐based, forensic risk assessment and the delivery of individual and group treatment and behaviour intervention models with complex populations (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, Transtheoretical Model of Change, Trauma Informed Care, Strengths Based Approaches).
• Adherence to and demonstration of key therapist characteristics (empathy, warmth, rewarding and directive) to facilitate the therapeutic relationship.

• General registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA).
• Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• Credentialed as a mental health nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
• Registered as an occupational therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
• A master's degree in psychotherapy and registration with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
• A master's degree in counselling and membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or registration with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).

We want to make sure all Victorians feel represented by the department's work. We welcome people of any gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and cultural background. We are also committed to the Victorian Government's promise to increase the number of veterans working in the public sector.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.