Provisional Psychologist

Provisional 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 many benefits to support your career and personal growth, including:

• Salary is $93,197.72 base plus super + free on-site lunches + free on-site gym + free parking
• Flexible working hours with career growth opportunities in a global organization
• Access to discounted Gym Benefits for you and your family
• Supervision provided by a board-approved supervisor
• Free onsite parking and buffet-style lunch provided
• Paid professional registration, CPD leave, and volunteer leave
• Professional development budget

Make an impact at Serco
As a Provisional Psychologist in the Psychological Health Services team, you will provide psychological assessment and intervention to prisoners, focusing on suicide and self-harm risk assessment and crisis intervention. Working within a multidisciplinary care team, you will deliver high-quality psychological care for inmates, ensuring their wellbeing and safety. This is a full-time role based at Acacia Prison, Wooroloo.

As a Provisional Psychologist in the Psychological Health Services team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Conducting comprehensive risk assessments and developing treatment plans for inmates at risk of self-harm.
• Providing individual counselling and group therapy sessions for prisoners experiencing psychological distress.
• Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team to deliver tailored psychological services.
• Preparing accurate and defensible documentation, including progress notes, formulations, and treatment plans.
• Offering evidence-based psychological interventions appropriate for a forensic population.

Serco is a place for you
You are a compassionate and skilled individual with a commitment to evidence-based practices. You thrive in a team environment, working collaboratively to support the rehabilitation of inmates. You have excellent communication and reporting skills and are dedicated to making a difference in a forensic setting.

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Psychology.
• Provisional registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Association (AHPRA).
• Experience in providing individual counselling, preferably within a correctional or institutional environment.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Exceptional report writing abilities for accurate and defensible documentation.

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. If you like the look of the role, we’d love to hear from you.

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, migration, 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.

Please note:

• This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a Federal Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.
• Our team members in this role must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our team. Please take this requirement into account when applying.

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, LGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.

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.