• Location – Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre - MRRC at Silverwater Correctional Centre
• Employment type – Ongoing and Temporary Opportunities Available
• Grade/Salary range – $74,302 - $130,530pa plus employer's contribution to superannuation, annual leave loading and environmental allowance.

The Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre (MRRC) is a maximum-security correctional facility for male offenders. The MRRC is one of 3 correctional facilities that make up the Silverwater Correctional Complex. Also located on site are Silverwater Women's and Dawn De Loas correctional centres. Usually this occurs because they obtain bail (and release) or because they transfer to a centre that matches their classification.

Your role

As a psychologist, you will be providing direct psychological assessment and intervention to offenders within a custodial environment as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will also provide expert consultation to staff and statutory authorities on the management of those in custody, ensuring evidence-based and ethical practices are consistently applied.

What you’ll do

• Deliver psychological assessments and interventions to individuals in custody.
• Provide expert consultation to staff regarding offender mental health and risk management (including sexual and violent offender assessment).
• Assist in the formulation of behaviour management plans and case plans for those in custody, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintain accurate and compliant documentation on the Offender Integrated. Management System (OIMS) and psychology files for all individuals receiving psychological services.
• May prepare reports and provide consultation to statutory authorities, including the State Parole Authority, Serious Offenders Review Council, and Mental Health Review Tribunal. 

What we’re looking for

• A motivated psychologist to provide an ethical and effective psychology service in a dynamic environment for psychologists who are charged with management of challenging clients and in the context of limited or scarce professional resources.
• Demonstrated expertise in assessment and treatment in correctional psychology including mental health issues, cognitive impairment, and with respect to behaviour management.
• Demonstrated knowledge of contemporary correctional principles related to psychological assessments and interventions, including criminogenic risk assessment.

Essential requirements

• Minimum four-year accredited qualification in psychology with current provisional or full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
• Current driver’s license and willingness to travel throughout NSW.

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To apply directly via the DCJ Careers site click the "Apply Now" button.

We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click a"Apply Now", attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role: 

1. Describe your experience in providing psychological services to individuals within a correctional, clinical, or similar high-needs and dynamic environment. How did you tailor your approach to meet the unique needs of the individuals you worked with, and what outcomes were you able to achieve?
2. As a psychologist, how have you used evidence-based practices to design and implement treatment or intervention? Provide an example of a particularly complex case you have worked on and explain how you assessed, developed, and evaluated the intervention (either individually, or within a multi-disciplinary team) to support the individual's rehabilitation.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Zara Ali via [email protected] using the subject line: Psychologist / Specialist Psychologist - Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre at Silverwater enquiry via EthicalJobs.

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Nastassja Le Claire on 0460 961 902 or via [email protected].

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months. 

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