Psychologist / Social Worker

Join a welcoming and inclusive team
A great range of career support programs, wellbeing packages and financial benefits
Access a world of unlimited opportunities, including highly discounted Gym Benefits for both you and your family.
About the Opportunity
At Psychological Health Services (PHS), we're committed to providing comprehensive psychological assessment and intervention to prisoners, addressing a wide range of issues with a particular emphasis on suicide and self-harm risk assessment and crisis intervention. Our team also delivers goal-directed, psychological interventions tailored to a forensic population.
Why Work with Us?
Supportive Environment:
Join a collaborative and supportive team dedicated to making a difference.
Professional Growth:
Access to a professional development budget to invest in your growth and skills.
Flexible Work Life:
Enjoy flexible start and finish times to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Professional Support:
Paid professional registration and CPD leave to ensure you stay current and licensed.
Community Engagement:
Paid volunteer leave to support your community while being supported by us.
Perks:
Benefits include provision of uniform, buffet-style lunch, and free onsite parking.
What You’ll Be Doing
Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary care team to provide exemplary care for prisoners facing psychological distress and/or functional impairment.
Conducting comprehensive risk assessments and utilizing them to develop tailored treatment and management plans for individuals at risk of self-harm.
Offering individual counseling and/or group therapy to prisoners with current psychological needs.
Crafting accurate and defensible documentation, including progress notes, formulations, and treatment plans.
About You - Your Ideal Skills &
Experience
Strong grasp of evidence-based practices in assessing and intervening with diverse psychological and behavioral presentations.
Demonstrated experience in providing individual counseling, ideally within a correctional, welfare, or similar institutional setting.
Proven ability to collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver psychological services and programs.
Exceptional report writing skills, producing accurate and defendable documentation.
If you are applying as a psychologist:
Bachelor’s degree in psychology (BPsych or BAPsych-Honours);
OR Master's Degree in Psychology (Forensic, Clinical, Counselling);
AND full registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Registration Association (AHPRA).
If you are applying as a Social Worker:
Bachelor’s degree in social work;
AND eligibility for registration with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a federal police check as an essential selection component for this role.
Serco requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application.
About us – Serco &
proud
At Serco, notonly is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone has a vital role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000+ globally and 14,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management &
citizen services. To learn more please visit www.Serco.Com/aspac
Why Join Us
You’d be joining a company that delivers essential public services (in partnership with governments) that impact a better future for communities, &
those in our care
You’ll get to have an impact on how we do things:
Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers &
action.
We Invest in you:
Accelerate your career through our learning &
development opportunities – think skills based training, defined career pathways &
fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group!
If you’re inspired to make a positive difference, apply now.
For any additional questions, or to learn more, please contact me – Ghaz Hojati – TA Consultant +61884322542
Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative, and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging
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