Senior Psychologist

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ 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

• Permanent, full-time position (40 hours a week)
• Earn a competitive salary: $91,500.00 - $128,000.00 (depending on experience
• Flexible working arrangements (Remote working options available)
• Provision of Uniform and free onsite parking
• Subsidised meals
• Medical insurance discounts with lucrative staff discounts with selected major retail stores
• Ongoing free mental health and counselling support via our Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) cover plus excellent professional development opportunities
• Ongoing clinical and cultural supervision and support

Make an impact at Serco

As a Senior Psychologist in the Psychological Services & Interventions team, you’ll play a crucial role in supporting the rehabilitation of prisoners by delivering high-quality psychological services.

You’ll be based at the Auckland South Corrections Facility in Wiri, contributing to a safer and more constructive correctional environment. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity for an experienced professional ready to lead, supervise, and innovate.

As a Senior Psychologist, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• You will be providing advice and support for the provision of mental health wellness programmes
• Conducting comprehensive psychological assessments and delivering evidence-based treatments
• Providing clinical supervision to psychologists and consultation within multidisciplinary panels
• Designing and developing assessment and treatment tools
• Preparing detailed reports including parole board submissions and psychological advice
• Building strong partnerships with internal staff, community organisations ,and Māori stakeholders
• Driving continuous improvement and innovation in psychological services

Serco is a place for you

You are a self-starter, engaging, approachable, and able to establish and maintain constructive relationships with clients, staff, mana whenua, and external agencies

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• This role will suit a qualified, experienced Psychologist with professional registration with the New Zealand Board of Psychologists (General, clinical, or counselling)
• You will have the ability to integrate theories of mental health (both general and forensic mental health) as well as established frameworks for forensic risk assessment into your clinical practice
• Your caring nature and commitment to prisoner rehabilitation will see you excel at completing risk assessments, providing individual therapeutic counselling, and completing defendable documentation
• You will demonstrate the highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour

• Solid understanding of evidence-based practices in the assessment and intervention of different psychological and behavioural presentations
• Knowledge of the social and clinical variables associated with significant offense categories
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the provision of psychological services and programs

Qualifications and professional registration

• Professional registration as a Psychologist with the New Zealand Board of Psychologists (general, clinical, or counselling)   
• Must hold a Masters degree in Psychology (minimum)
• Solid postgraduate experience in delivering individual counseling, ideally within a correctional, welfare, or other institutional setting

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

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Māori, Pacific Peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, 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.

Impact a better future at Serco.