Psychologist-Clarence Correctional Centre

Location: Beautiful Lavadia, close to Grafton in Northern NSW
Role: Oversee essential services in Australia’s largest correctional Centre
Culture: Inclusive, supportive, and committed to diversity

Salary: $95,000 – $110,000 Plus Superannuation

Up to $5,000 relocation assistance

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 16,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Flexible salary packaging options, including novated leasing for new and used vehicles  
• Benefits@Serco, which includes a great range of career support programs, wellbeing packages, and financial benefits, available through us and our selected partners, including access to Fitness Passport  
• Uniform provided daily meals & onsite parking
• Share2Care 12 weeks of paid parental leave to eligible employees  

Make an impact at Serco

As a Psychologist at Clarence Correctional Centre, you’ll play a crucial role in inmate rehabilitation by providing psychological assessments, interventions, and therapeutic services. You’ll work closely with a collaborative team to ensure the wellbeing of inmates, contributing to their successful reintegration. This role is based at the largest correctional centre in Australia, offering a unique opportunity to make a significant difference in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

As a Psychologist in the Rehabilitation and Reintegration team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Delivering psychological assessments and therapeutic services to inmates
• Providing expert consultation to staff on managing complex inmate behaviours
• Supporting inmate rehabilitation through evidence-based practices
• Engaging in ongoing professional development to enhance your skills
• Contributing to a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment

About Clarence Correctional Centre 

Opened in mid-2020, this 1,700-bed state-of-the-art facility is the largest correctional Centre in Australia.  

Located on the beautiful NSW North Coast approx. 6 hours' drive from Sydney and 3.5 hours from Brisbane our region offers rainforests, epic headlands, sand dunes and some of the best Australian beaches with a variety of multi-cultural cafes, restaurants, and friendly community towns. 

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• Minimum four-year accredited qualification in psychology with current provisional or
• full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia
• Ideally experience working in a Correctional environment delivering the suit of EQUIPS, Real Understanding of Self Help, and Out of the Dark programs (not essential)
• Experience in or willingness to learn assessment and treatment in psychology including mental health issues, cognitive impairment, and with respect to behaviour management.
• Experience in or willingness to learn advisory and consultation.
• Ability to develop knowledge and understanding of contemporary correctional concepts, principles, and practices relevant to psychology assessment and treatments.
• Knowledge of or interest in criminogenic risk assessments, including risks related to sex and violent offending and associated interventions.
• Knowledge and understanding of the psychologist’s ethical and legal obligations and professional accountability.
• The highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour.

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across Justice, Immigration, Defence, Space, Customer Services, Health, and Urban Mobility. In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.

Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

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 that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.

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’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer, committing to responding to every applicant.

Impact a better future at Serco