**Principal Clinician**
**Help lead the team that shapes forensic intervention in Barwon South West.**
- **Join our growing Barwon South West team and help reduce re-offending**:
- **Do career-defining work with marginalised groups**:
- **Guide a skilled forensic clinical team to serve a complex caseload**:
- **Enjoy world-class training and wellbeing support**:
- **Earn $** **134,593 - $180,115 per year plus super**
Empower people and elevate your career - join Forensic Intervention Services.
FIS provides evidence-based screening, assessment and intervention services for individuals in custody and the community. We focus on areas such as violent and sexual offending, restorative justice, violent extremism and family violence.
As part of the leadership group of our Barwon South West team, you will oversee the treatment of complex cases across a precinct of four mixed-security prisons, including the brand-new Western Plains Correctional Centre.
This is the perfect opportunity if you're looking to expand your expertise, enjoy a more dynamic role or leave a lasting influence in a progressive field.
**In addition to compelling work, we offer**:
- **flexible** **work** options
- mental health and **wellbeing support**:
- annual **leadership forums** and conferences
- professional **registration funding**:
- limited travel requirements, with **most of your work carried out onsite**.
**What you will do**
The Principal Clinician, Practice will deliver **assessments** and both** offence-specific** and **offence-related**interventions for a complex caseload.
Approximately 70% of your workload will involve **direct service delivery** - including assessments and interventions - while the remainder will see you **support research and evaluation** efforts.
**You will**:
- Provide **high-quality supervision** to senior forensic clinicians and other practitioners.
- **Enhance evidence-based practices** through feedback and direct observation.
- Advise on **practice improvements** and ensure service integrity.
- Prepare reports and **provide expert recommendations** on complex cases and practices.
- **Represent FIS** at meetings, conferences and other events.
- **Deliver training and consultancy** services to other agencies.
**Western Plains Employment Expo**
Join our in-person Western Plains employment expo on **Wednesday 5 February**. Take a guided tour of the state-of-the-art facility and learn more about careers at Victoria's Barwon South West prison precinct.
**5:30 pm to 8:00 pm > Wednesday 5 February > Western Plains Correctional Centre > 1150 Bacchus Marsh Road, Lara**
**Eligibility**
To apply, you will need to hold - or be eligible for - one of the following:
- General registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA).
- Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Be credentialed as a mental health nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
- Registration as an occupational therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
**Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.