Department: Service and Program Delivery
Department/Agency: Corrective Services NSW
Location:
Parklea, NSW, AU, 2768
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Req ID: 86162
Senior Psychologist/Senior Specialist Psychologist
Location: Parklea Correctional Centre
Employment type: Ongoing Opportunity
Salary: Senior Psychologist: $124,771 – $135,527pa,
Senior Specialist Psychologist: $146,281 - $154,889pa,
Plus, superannuation, environmental allowance, and leave loading
Your role
As a Senior Psychologist or Senior Specialist Psychologist at Parklea Correctional Centre, you'll be a clinical leader and trusted expert, providing specialist psychological services to individuals with complex behavioural, mental health and rehabilitation needs. As the centre transitions back to public operation, you'll play a key role in establishing and shaping psychology services, driving clinical excellence and influencing best-practice service delivery. Through your leadership and expertise, you'll contribute to meaningful rehabilitation outcomes, help reduce reoffending, improve wellbeing and support safer communities.
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What you’ll do
In this role, you'll provide clinical leadership and oversight of psychology service delivery, ensuring services are delivered safely, ethically and to the highest professional standards. You'll undertake psychological assessments, develop case formulations and deliver evidence-based interventions to the more complex offenders. You will contribute to rehabilitation outcomes through risk assessment, treatment planning and provision of expert advice to support case management.
Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and operational stakeholders, you'll strengthen clinical capability, provide specialist advice and drive excellence in psychological practice to achieve positive outcomes for people in custody.
Beyond your direct clinical work, you'll play a key role in developing the capability of the psychology team. Through individual and group supervision, and professional development, you'll help psychologists grow their skills and confidence in managing complex presentations.
For Senior Specialist Psychologists, there may be additional opportunities to manage highly complex cases, provide advanced clinical expertise and lead or contribute to service improvement projects that influence the future direction of psychology services.
What we’re looking for
We're looking for an experienced psychologist who combines clinical excellence with strong leadership capability and a genuine commitment to rehabilitation.
You'll hold full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia and bring significant experience and expertise in psychological assessment intervention and criminogenic risk management, along with a strong understanding of evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
You will be confident working with complex presentations and balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Your communication skills will allow you to build relationships with key stakeholders, while your collaborative approach will enable you to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
Importantly, you'll have experience providing supervision, mentoring or professional leadership to other clinicians and be passionate about developing those around you. Being a Board Approved Supervisor is desirable.
For Senior Specialist Psychologist appointments, you'll demonstrate advanced clinical expertise, substantial experience managing complex and high-risk clients, and the ability to provide expert consultation, leadership and influence across psychology services.
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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.
Why Join Us
At Corrective Services NSW, you'll be supported to build a career where you will
Lead meaningful work that directly supports rehabilitation, behavioural change and safer communities.
Shape and develop future clinicians through supervision, mentoring and professional leadership.
Work with complex and rewarding cases that will continually challenge and strengthen your expertise.
Grow your career through specialist pathways, professional development and leadership opportunities.
Join a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to evidence-based practice, innovation and continuous improvement.
We do work that really matters
Working for Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) provides opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with government and non-government justice and human services agencies to support victims, facilitate restorative justice, and promote reintegration. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.
Are you ready to join us?
Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).
Applications close 9th September 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.
Got a question?
For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for CSNSW, please contact the hiring manager Tahnee Liewes via email
[email protected]. or on 0460 298 019.
If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Faith Timothy on 0497 142 953 or via
[email protected]
Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
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 LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.
Other Information
A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.
For more information visit Applying for DCJ jobs on the DCJ website.
Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.
