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About the Role
This role offers a unique opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team, providing psychological assessment, intervention, therapeutic services, and educational support to various courts and judges. You will offer expert consultation to judges on mental health and wellbeing, and advise the Executive Team.
Responsibilities
- Promote resilience, provide early intervention, and reduce psychological risk by offering a dedicated, confidential support pathway for judges.
- Maintain confidential succinct documentation and psychological notes on all interactions with judges receiving psychological services.
- Work in collaboration with the Judicial Commission and DCJ Executive, conduct and evaluate psychological interventions to ensure more complex situations are managed effectively.
- Adapt psychological literature for new programs, supports or research for the purpose of supporting judges and applying interventions.
- Present at conferences and events promoting the psychological and wellbeing services available to judges.
- Design and deliver wellbeing education programs for judges and limited staff.
Requirements
- Experience providing ethical and effective psychology services in a dynamic environment with challenging situations, such as court, health, emergency services, defence, corrections, regulation or other complex public services.
- Demonstrated expertise in assessment and treatment in psychological services including, vicarious trauma exposure, mental health concerns, and with general wellbeing support and preventative management.
- Demonstrated level of knowledge and understanding of court operations, judicial, and / or legal environments, principles and practices relevant to psychology assessment and treatments.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of psychologist’s ethical and legal obligations.
- Minimum four-year accredited qualification in psychology with full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
- Current driver’s licence and willingness to travel throughout NSW.
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Temporary
- Part Time
Education Level
- Minimum four-year accredited qualification in psychology with full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
Salary/Compensations
- $81,980 - $121,865 (pro-rata), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading. This includes the Psychologists Attraction and Retention Allowance, annual amount of $9,000.
Benefits
- 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.
About the Company
- Working for the Department of Justice (DCJ) provides opportunities to make a real difference by collaborating with other agencies and community partners to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We are focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 LGBTQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.