Social Worker - Rewarding Work

What G4S offers you

• Comprehensive clinical supervision and support from Senior Clinicians
• Regular peer supervision
• Ability to work autonomously in a supportive team environment
• Access to professional education and training
• Monday to Friday working hours with the ability to retain flexibility
• Part-time work opportunities available
• A highly regarded team of Clinicians and Support Staff
• Support for administration

About the role and team

Our Clinical Services team at Port Phillip Prison is seeking an experienced Clinician to assist with offending behaviour assessments, interventions, and programs for prisoners.

Working on programs to reduce violent offending behaviour, you'll support a diverse cohort with complex mental health, addiction, offence history, and young adult needs, to obtain the best outcomes for service users in our care..

The successful candidate will be responsible for

• Screening and assessing prisoners' suitability for offending behaviour programs.
• Delivering a range of programs and interventions, both individually and in group settings, and providing program assessment, treatment, and evaluation reports to key stakeholders.
• Liaising with key internal and external stakeholders, including Corrections Victoria, DFFH, NDIS, Forensicare and St Vincent's Correctional Health. 

Apply your skills by facilitating a variety of interventions  - including psychoeducational interventions and critical incident and crisis intervention supports - and make a difference to the entire prison cohort. 

What we are looking for

• Registration as a Psychologist/Provisional (AHPRA), Occupational Therapist, Social Worker (AASW) or Mental Health Nurse
• The ability to successfully engage with and assess people from diverse backgrounds, including those from high-risk groups and in particular, people presenting with challenging and complex backgrounds and behaviours  
• Experience with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) desirable 

About G4S

G4S, an Allied Universal® Company is a world leading security and facility services company. For more than a century we've been helping keep communities safe and secure.

Port Phillip Prison is the largest maximum-security prison in Victoria, with over 1000 inmates, 650 employees, and multiple specialist units that provide employment, health, education and medical programs and services.  G4S has managed and operated Port Phillip Prison on behalf of Corrections Victoria since it opened in 1997.

G4S is responsible for ensuring all people in our care, including sentenced prisoners and those on remand are supervised and managed in a secure, safe and humane manner. We provide programs to support prisoners and reduce reoffending, plus services to support the wellbeing of prisoners and their families. 

To be a success in this role, it is essential that you are a dynamic and engaging individual who shares our ethics and values and has a true passion for making a difference to the communities in which we live.